https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:12:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2377087 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:23:03 +0000 Cee 2377087@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Definitely a keeper if it brings you joy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2377075 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 03:09:00 +0000 Rock 2377075@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a fun post, Janet! The sweater is fantastic - the colors, the argyle, the slightly cropped length - it is a perfect fit on you and the back buttoning is a great hack. I never would have thought to do that, but it may give new life to some of my cardigans.</p> <p>I have a collection of Swarovski holiday brooches from the late 1980s through the early aughts. My DH bought them for me over the years. I still wear them every holiday season. The best part of wearing them is that they evoke memories of the early years of my marriage and early years of practice after law school. </p> <p>I enjoy sentimental items and appreciate all of the stories and photos. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2377069 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:00:40 +0000 Anonymous 2377069@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I bought a lot for Mom but she was very specific in her wants and I did not save anything. She had laundry done at a nursing home and wanted things that would disguise her sloping shoulders. Usually a pattern worked best to disguise food spills as she tried very hard to feed herself. &nbsp;I did not keep anything. . &nbsp;She grow up when women wore dresses and would wear them in spite of a wheelchair. It was I chore getting her to wear joggers, she thought it looked silly to wear them when she could not jog. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376809 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:54:18 +0000 Carol 2376809@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It looks like a great color on you! Very pretty. I don't know that I have any items like that, but my mother always made a point of wearing/using every present she got, no matter how ugly.</p> <p>Maybe 20 or 30 years ago, her mother-in-law (my grandma) made her a crafted sweatshirt--a white, crew neck sweatshirt with a cross-stitch pattern of a cartoon jogger, and cross-stitch bubble letters that said: "jogger." I still remember my father cracking up, and her going, "what? It's lovely." And then she would wear it when she ran.:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376807 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:03:01 +0000 Janet 2376807@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, how lovely to wear that sweater set — and yes, the trick is always to find our own current way of enjoying these items! I think I figured that out this time. My mom’s and my tastes intersected but after two decades my style has evolved. It can be tricky.</p> <p>Dee, that blazer is classic and suits you so well! So nice that you still enjoy it.</p> <p>Angie, what a lovely cheerful piece — I can see why it is treasured and displayed. I have a few kitchen and decor items from my parents that float around and are displayed, often seasonal. This red glass jar comes out for the holidays and holds candies. </p> <p>Janet, I love fair isle and that looks so cuddly, and the cord jacket is also really appealing. Orange is not my best color either, but I’d wear that too if I were you!</p> <p>Kyle, Sharan and Lisa, thank you! My husband liked it on me too. </p> <p>Irina, what a shame the beret color doesn’t suit you. But it is nice to have something physical to attach to the memories. I had a striped rugby shirt of my dad’s — I actually wore it for years until it got pretty tattered and I decided I could give it up. He died when I was 25, and it was a shock and my first real loss, so wearing something of his was a help in a very tough time in my young adulthood. </p> <p>Jaime, I figured you have some good “vintage” pieces even if they’re not sentimental. You have the best finds! </p> <p>Brooklyn, I love that you have those pieces from your mom, and how special they were made with love. I know you treasure them! </p> <p>Sisi, it’s remarkable how well made these things from 20+ years ago can be, compared to now. I can’t believe that simple cotton hoodie from the 80s that my mom wore is still going strong after all the washings. This sweater is missing the tag — I removed it the first time I wore it backwards years ago — but I recall it was from Macys and think it was one of their house brands, but I can’t recall the name. Enjoy that jacket!</p> <p>Lisa, thanks — the pairing with the jeans made it really work for me.</p> <p>Cookie, what a great story and a beautiful bracelet! </p> <p>Jenni, that’s such a pretty necklace — I’m glad you get to wear it! Vintage coats are SO good and well made, so it’s disappointing to inherit one that doesn’t fit. I had a beautiful one from my grandmother, but she must have been a bit shorter than me with a very different build because it did not work for me at all. I eventually let it go to a new home rather than see it get eaten by moths. I have two old, rather worn coats my mom used to walk her dogs, and I’m going to have the fabric made into something else one of these days! One is a teddy coat and not quite right in the fit but I’d like to use it somehow. I saw a mixed media tote recently that was made from part leather (or maybe faux leather) and part faux fur, and that gave me ideas! I have a friend who designs handbags with reclaimed and recycled material. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376801 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:46:52 +0000 Jenni NZ 2376801@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look wonderful in this Janet, it suits you so well.<br /> I don’t think I can fit my fave sentimental item of Mum’s, it’s her 1964 red wool coat. It could be even earlier than that but I have a photo of the two of us in 1964 when I was 3. I first borrowed it from her when I was 21 and have always loved the rich red colour.<br /> But I do still fit her (fake) “opal” necklace! I had it fixed and enjoy wearing it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376799 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:38:55 +0000 Cookie 2376799@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Loving everybody’s sentimental clothes, especially your beautiful sweater, Janet!<br /> I am quite sentimental AND I keep things forever, yet I can’t think of any sentimental clothing offhand. But my most sentimental item is this jade bracelet that was the first gift my grandfather gave my grandmother.<br /> They met on board a ship when neither was especially young. When they went ashore at a port somewhere, he pointed out the bracelet in a shop and asked if she thought it was an appropriate gift for a lady. She, crushed but unsurprised to think he had a girlfriend at home, said she thought any woman would be thrilled to receive it and he said he was happy to hear that because he wanted her to have it. They were married a month later and she gave me the bracelet on my 15th or 16th birthday in what I always took as a wish for me to be lucky in love as well (which I was eventually, but like her, not till well over 30).<br /> She was actually pretty unaffectionate (except to my grandfather, whom she adored for the rest of their days), so this makes her sound like a warmer and cuddlier grandma than she was, but maybe that makes the item all the more sentimental! I wear it to weddings to extend the lucky streak to the couple. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376793 Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:03:06 +0000 Lisa 2376793@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A lovely sentimental item with a beautiful memory. Of course yes to keeping forever! And that green shade is delightful paired with blues.</p> <p>A nice hack to flip front to back for extra versatility too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376768 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:47:18 +0000 Janet 2376768@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, everyone! I enjoyed wearing it and promised myself I’d break it out more often. I think it works better now than in some years past because it suits the higher-rise wide-legged jeans.</p> <p>So lovely to see and read about favorite sentimental items! I have just a few clothing items from my mom - I also have a skirt that is wearable but a bit boho for my current style. And I have a white cotton pullover hoodie that she wore at the beach 40+ years ago that I wear around the house in warm weather! I also have some of her gloves, a hat, and some scarves, as well as a lot of her jewelry. I’m quite sentimental! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376767 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:36:15 +0000 Sisi 2376767@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's a beautiful cardi! It is eviden that it is very well made, the fit is perfect and you look fab in it! Being a sentimental person, I have various old things I still wear. One example for all - a white cotton jacket that my mother brought home for me in the early Nineties. It does not button anymore but every Summer I take it out. It is soft, very well made and still looks like new after hundreds of machine washings.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376765 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:09:23 +0000 Brooklyn 2376765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fabulous jumper and outfit. YLF!</p> <p>My mum has knitted me multiple jumpers and beanies. Some I like more than others but I hang on to them all. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376763 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:48:22 +0000 Jaime 2376763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow Janet this is gorgeous on you. I hear you on the colors - I also look better in blue tones - but this works beautifully. And the jeans are super on you.&nbsp;<br />Not sure I have any sentimental items. Plenty of clothes that date more than 20 years though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376762 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:24:41 +0000 Irina 2376762@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the outfit, Janet. Lovely greens!<br />I do have a sentimental item - my late mother’s beret, knitted by her. Can’t wear it, unfortunately. The color is really bad on me. Aside from photos and letters, this is the only thing I have of my mother’s.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376758 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:20:26 +0000 LJP 2376758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Now *that* is a great outfit! &nbsp;I really love this sweater on you and think the colours make it look current and interesting. &nbsp;I am the least sentimental person there is (self preservation) , lol, so that answer is "no".&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376753 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:21:09 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 2376753@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know what you mean about the warmer greens, and yet... as everyone has noted, you do look fantastic in this sweater. I'm glad can continue to enjoy wearing it and being wrapped in its memories. I love the long trench with this outfit. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376748 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:02:50 +0000 Kyle 2376748@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For something that is not your best color, this sure as heck looks incredible on you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376746 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:44:29 +0000 JAileen 2376746@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I LOVE the colors! &nbsp;And I like how you’ve styled it. &nbsp; I have a pea green, olive and red Fair Isle sweater my mother knit back in the early 60s. &nbsp;I also have her dark orange suede jacket from a few years later. &nbsp;The colors are of the time, and definitely not her colors. &nbsp;But I really like the colors my mother chose for the sweater. &nbsp;I love the style of the orange jacket, but the color is a little harder for me to wear.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376743 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:26:50 +0000 Angie 2376743@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b></b><b>Janet,</b> clever back-to-front hack!<b></b></p> <p>I LOVE this on you! In the pic, it looks KILLER. The colours look gorgeous WITH the blue jeans. The addition of the blue makes it more your palette. The fit is smashing - yes to keeping it forever. Beautiful story. (((HUGS))).</p> <p><b>Suz </b>and <b>Dee</b>, I know your sentimental items, and it makes me smile to see you wear them.<br /><b><br /></b>My Mama died when I was 29. So 25 years ago. I was in the industry so she never bought me wardrobe items. Mama did get me a ceramic fruit&nbsp; bowl 28 years ago, explaining that when she saw it, it reminded her of me. I LOVE this bowl. It's absolutely perfect, and has travelled the world with us since we've lived across the globe. It's an extremely sentimental item. It has pride of place in our kitchens. I had to bring it with us to the rental, and not put it into storage while we remodel. Comforting. Took this pic a moment ago.</p> <b><br /> </b> <p><b></b> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376740 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:52:26 +0000 Dee 2376740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh what a fab sweater, love it's graphic argyle design, looks great especially with your hair colour even though you feel its not your best colours.</p> <p>My sentimental favorite is a denim blazer jacket my mom bought me while we were shopping together, its at least 25 years old. I've posted about it a couple of times. I think it still has some style power all these years later. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376735 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:38 +0000 Suz 2376735@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, <b>Janet </b>-- what a great story -- and that is a fab outfit. I love how you have made it work. The outfit is sharp, current, and fun, as well as being secretly sentimental. Fantastic with that trench!&nbsp;</p> <p>I still wear a sweater set that I bought for my own mother at Land's End -- not 20 years ago, but a good 15 years ago. It was one of the few items I kept from her closet after she died. She loved it and wore it well and now I try to wear it my own way.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw---sentimental-sweater#post-2376734 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:29:25 +0000 Janet 2376734@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla’s recent post about making beloved items work brought to mind this sweater. It’s not an easy item for me — the greens are more brown-olive toned and not my best (cool bluer greens are), and it’s a cardigan. I am not a cardigan person! But… my mom bought it for me on a shopping day in Macy’s probably 20 years ago. I’m actually amazed it still fits, considering I am a good 15 lbs heavier now than I was then. If I turn it around and wear the button side in front, it gapes at the bust, but turned backwards I don’t have any issue with the fit. It’s even a good length. I love an off-kilter argyle — one that is not 100% classic in color, cut, or pattern, so I’ve held onto this for years. I only wear it maybe once a year or so, but I’ll probably keep it forever, it’s so sentimental. </p> <p>Paired it with my Nili Lotan Celia jeans and Gentle Souls brown suede booties. When I go out for errands I’ll add the Avec les Filles olive faux leather trench. </p> <p>Do you wear any 20-year-old sentimental items? I only have a few but they do bring me comfort and happiness. </p>