How often do we use one thing or another thing without thinking about the great story, which is worth it? Comfortable and comfortable, affordable and simple items of our wardrobe seem familiar to us. For example, a cardigan is a classic knitted jacket with long sleeves on buttons or lightning - enters the ranking of basic things that everyone has. We learned all about the fashionable DNA of this "space", which did the way from the uniform of fishermen to the stylish signs of this dandy.
Today, no male fashion show is without sets, built on the basis of this simple woolen sweater. And, despite all the variety of cut and silhouette, fashion historians remember the classic sample: this is an option to the middle of the thigh, without a collar, with a deep V-neck and large overhead pockets on buttons. There is no disagreement and about who exactly made a cardigan throughout the researcher. So, the name of Lord Cardigan, the seventh graph of his name, James Thomas Bradnell, flashes in all essays about the fate of knitted men's sweatshirts.
Brave small
Of course, the famous English general, fashionistan and aristocrat (he, by the way, fought in Crimea and hit the page of textbooks thanks to Balaklava battle), not independently invented woolen jacket. From numerous written and visual sources it becomes clear that in warm and cozy cardigans, then the Scandinavian sailors have risen. Northern latitudes suggested not the most comfortable conditions of stay - wind, rain, frost and other troubles, despite which ordinary citizens needed to extract food. The skins made the movement of faded - in such clothes to taper on the ice and to eat in the fishing boat it was not easy. Living has become more fun with the invention of a spinning machine. The first sweatshirts, similar to their cut on modern models, began to be in use at the turn of the 9th and 6th centuries. Because of the rude mating and unsightly appearance, they did not attract the attention of the nobility. Representatives of wealthy estates, not burdened with daily labor, still wore gorgeous fur.
Cardigan has long been an indispensable thing
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The contribution of the Cardigan graph in the history of woolen jacket is difficult to overestimate. He "rose in the title" inconspicuous element of the wardrobe of commoners. The general allegedly suited him under the shaped uniform. Also, the commander made it warm and his soldiers who went to the Crimea. With the light hand of Brdnell knew slowly began to look after a modest jacket. Gradually, the knitting became another - thin, of soft wool. To the Cardigan, who finally received his name by 1870 (County Cardigan by that time had already so much), buttons from expensive metals, ivory and even precious stones began to fasten.
Fan club
The golden age of Cardigan came thanks to the fashion designer who gave women the opportunity to wear men's things. Of course, we are talking about Coco Chanel, without which no fashionable revolution of the beginning of the XX century did not cost. In 1918, she presented the auditory kit - a straight skirt mixer (which will later become the name "Pencil Skirt") and a shortened cardigan with traditional overhead pockets and contrasting the edge along the edges. So imperceptibly, but rapidly from the men's model Cardigan moved to women's wardrobes.
At the same time, the wool sweater becomes one of the most recognizable elements of the uniform of students from Ivy League. The popular now classic set (shirt, pants or skirt and a contrast knitted jacket on the buttons, with the coat of arms of the university, the coat of arms of the university) was one hundred years ago.
However, the molding of the conservative jacket only seems unchanged - over time the length and silhouette of the cardigans changed greatly. So, during the Second World War in connection with the acute shortage of wool in England and France at the peak of popularity were funny short jackets.
The American president of Jimmy Carter supported the seventies to the cardigans. He is obliged to the world political elite, a relaxed SEMI-Formal style, that is, a semi-defocal manner in which the degraded pants and the perfect shirt are combined with a slightly careless jacket made of thin wool.
Cardigan Universal: It can be found in the female wardrobe, and in a male
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Rockers and punks along with jeans put on almost shapeless grandmother's sweatshirts in a geometric pattern. The most popular fan of Cardigan was the leader of the Nirvana group Kurt Kobein: Judging by the photo, the icon of Grunge adored strange jackets. Thanks to the singer, the Cardigan first became a sharply thing that was worn without exception, and then entered the list of "basic" elements that are obliged to be in the wardrobe of each. His last concert, famous unplugged in New York, Cobain has played gray-green smunt-green sweater. Then, after the mysterious suicide of Rocker, dozens of models from different designers came out in such clothes on the world's podiums.
To date, the cardigans are sent to the country and on the Red Tracks (remember the extravagant yield of Rihanna, putting an elongated jacket on a naked body). Buttons, zippers, smell, silhouette, shape and fabric, from which our hero is sewn, change from the season for the season. But still, after eleven centuries, the clothing of Scandinavian commoners remains in the top of fashion ratings.