Pringle Cardigan

While the content of this blog is primarily devoted to men's knitwear, I would like to take a moment to share a recent acquisition that made a wonderful Christmas gift for my mom - this Pringle cashmere cardigan below. It is styled similarly to Ballantyne's famous Thorley, with a crew neck and gold-tone buttons, but with the addition of beautiful cable-stitching down the front panels. The cashmere has all the hallmarks of the best Scottish product. Beefy and tensely knit with a hand closer to merino wool than what usually passes for cashmere today, it promises, nonetheless, to soften after washing. With proper care, it will last a lifetime and beyond while retaining its shape and becoming ever more luxuriously soft.

This cardigan likely was one of the last garments made for The Scotch House, which shuttered in late 2001, for it bears no Royal Warrant, which Pringle lost one year earlier as a result of its sale to Hong Kong's Fang Brothers.