The Cardigan
This is one of my favorite pieces of clothing. Warm. Cozy. Capable of making you feel as if you’ve just been bundled by your granny, the cardigan should probably have its own Hall of Fame.
However.
It is not for everyone.
Mr. Rogers looked great in a cardigan. I trusted him and knew, implicitly, that he had my best interests at heart. Or maybe it was the fact that his trolley went to a beautiful fantasy neighborhood I could never get enough of.
Anyway, I thought Daniel Tosh did himself a big favor by changing to the jacket. Especially if he put the cardigan from last season on his neighbor’s pit bull. That would’ve been funny.
Tom Cruise in a cardigan? Uh . . . no.
This may actually disprove the old adage that there’s a time and a place for everything. Or not? Tell me, who do you think could wear a cardigan and still make you believe he could catch fish with his bare hands for breakfast, save orphans from a burning building before lunch, and put an entire network of gangsters behind bars by dinner?
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March 9th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Harrison Ford. Absolutely. =)
March 10th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Sean Connery. The guy is old as dirt and still drool-worthy.
and if nothing else he could turn off the lights and tell you he could catch the fish and you’d believe him on the voice alone
March 10th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Ok, now I’m rolling with laughter just imagining Schwarzenegger of Stallone (as in Terminator or Rambo) in a cardigan, saying something like “that was my granny’s Christmas present, now you ruined it!”. Ha ha ha!
However, I’d say Sean Connery. Forget James Bond with the jacket, he’s better now. And I don’t really know why, but Steve Martin keeps coming to mind. I’d totally see him in a cardingan.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Gerard Butler, without a doubt, could wear a cardigan and have no fear of having his “I’m a manly man” group card revoked.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
While I agree with who says Harrison Ford or Sean Connery, I think my vote has to go with Rex Harrison. He can talk to animals and make flower girls into ladies all while wearing a loverly cardigan!!!
March 10th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
There is absolutely nothing wrong with cardigans! i have loads of them!
On men … well i agree sean connery could handle it, there does appear to be a trend for man cardigans at the minute, but just cos you can doesn’t mean you should! I think it’s really a confidence thing
ed westwick for example can wear a cardigan because he’s got the ego and the persona (or his character has)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DvyYQdnG-5E/SrMzjBWu4BI/AAAAAAAAAvw/yYYTTaTtp4w/s400/Chuck+Bass+50s+cardigan.jpg
Alan Rickman can wear a cardigan, because he is alan rickman and can do anything he wants
http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lb/alan_rickman_131208/alan_rickman_5220807.jpg
(ok its more boiled wool than a proper cardigan but i couldn’t find a picture, but i know he looks good in them!)
March 10th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Nicole, I think you just fried all my circuits with that image!
I mean, it’s Gerry…
Also true, Sean Connery is awsome. But then again, he’s a Scot too. Me, have a thing for yummy Scotsmen? No, wherever did you get that idea?
March 11th, 2010 at 9:20 am
LOL! Suh-weet.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I may be predictable but: Hugh Jackman. Especially with his Wolverine whiskers and adamantium claws. I can so see that happening in Wolverine 2.
March 12th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Kevin Spacey
March 13th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I have to agree with all the lovely delicious men mentioned – and it seems like men from Great Britain could carry it off more easily than American men – or maybe Europe as a whole. And not those low v-neck cardigans – the high v-neck cards. I love love love me a pretty cardigan – like from Talbots in a spring lilac or robin’s egg blue!
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:41 am
Legend has it that the brave ole Lord Cardigan himself slashed the front of his regular army sweater with one strike of his own sword… and the cardigan was invented. The addition of buttons came afetrwards.
Add Raglan sleeves to a Cardigan, and you’ve got two lords for the same price in one piece of clothing!
http://www.s9.com/Biography/Brudenell-James-Thomas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raglan_sleeve
J-N
(Hi from Paris, France, downhill from the Butte Montmartre where Spring seems to be showing up at long last…)