What Happened to Sweaters? - The Atlantic
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The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.
In much of the United States, you can already feel it. There’s a hint of a chill in the night air. The morning light looks somehow more golden. The pumpkin-spice latte has finished its annual transit across the cosmos and returned to its home at your local Starbucks. Sweater weather approaches . Cooler temperatures bring rich textures and many layering opportunities. What this time of year no longer brings to most people, though, is amazing new sweaters. Or even good ones. With apologies for describing a tweet, the comedian Ellory Smith made much the same point a few weeks ago on the platform
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