The Luxuriously Soft Cashmere Sweater You'll Live In

A soft cashmere knit in a lovely cream — warm without the weight, soft without the scratch, and quietly luxurious. Like being wrapped in a cloud, every day.

I've always longed for a proper cashmere sweater — the soft, warm, quietly luxurious kind those elegant women seem to live in all winter. But every one I found cost the earth, so I made do with scratchy wool and thin acrylics, and never quite had the lovely thing I wanted.

What I really wanted was one genuinely soft, warm cashmere sweater I could wear every day and feel wrapped up in — warm without the weight, soft without the scratch, and easy to throw over everything. But cashmere was always out of reach, and the affordable knits itched or hung heavy. Nothing was both.

It was my daughter Sarah, up in Boston, who told me to stop settling for scratchy acrylic and try one from a small family boutique here in South Carolina — a soft cashmere knit she thought I'd never take off. Before I tell you what it did, I think you should read the Clarke family's letter first.

The Clarke family runs a small boutique here in South Carolina, family-run since 1986 — three generations, mother to daughter. The sweater is called the Mira, and their letter walks through the handful of things they refused to compromise on. I am going to let their words carry it, because they say it better than I could.

1The luxuriously soft cashmere sweater you'll live in

We made the Mira from soft cashmere in a lovely cream — the kind of quietly luxurious sweater you slip on and never quite want to take off. The moment it's on it feels like being wrapped in a cloud: warm, weightless, and gently expensive-looking. The first thing you'll reach for the moment there's a chill, morning after morning.

2Cashmere-soft — warm, without a hint of itch

It's soft cashmere against the skin — warm and cozy without a single hint of scratch, gentle even if your skin is more sensitive than it used to be. None of the itch of wool, none of the thinness of cheap acrylic; just softness the moment it's on, that only gets lovelier with wear.

3Warm without the weight

Cashmere is remarkable that way — it keeps you beautifully warm while staying light as a feather, so there's no bulk and no weight dragging on your shoulders, just gentle warmth. Cozy and weightless at once: proper warmth in something you can move easily and comfortably in all day.

4A cozy cashmere mock neck that keeps the draught off

Its soft cashmere mock neck sits gently against the skin and keeps your neck and shoulders warm — no scarf to wind or lose, and none of the tight, scratchy feeling of a heavy turtleneck. Warmth right where you feel the cold most, built in, the moment you put it on.

5A rich neutral that goes with everything

It's a soft, elegant cream — the kind of rich neutral that goes with everything you own: your trousers, your jeans, your navy, under a coat, with any scarf. One quietly luxurious sweater that works with half your wardrobe and always looks expensive, so you reach for it again and again.

6Five colours, and a size for you, from M to 3XL

It comes in five soft shades — cream, tan, navy, sage and grey — and it runs from M to 3XL, cut relaxed and easy to flatter a real range of bodies. A sweater made to fit the woman, not to make the woman fit the sweater.

The Mira, against the jumpers in your drawer

	The usual jumper	The Mira
The feel	Scratchy wool, or thin acrylic	Soft cashmere — not a hint of scratch
The warmth	Heavy and bulky, or too thin	Beautifully warm, light as a feather
The neck	A scarf to wind, or a tight turtleneck	A soft cashmere mock neck, gentle and warm
The colour	A shade that goes with nothing	A rich cream that goes with everything
The price	Cashmere that costs the earth	Quietly luxurious, at a fraction

Why they're clearing it now

They priced the Mira at $270.95 when it launched, and it sold at that price all season. But for America's 250th, the Clarke family wanted to give something back to the women who have kept their doors open since 1986 — so every sweater is going out for under a quarter of that.

Mine arrived folded in tissue with a little handwritten note on top. I slipped it on that same cool morning, and it felt like being wrapped in a cloud — it's barely left me since.

I don't usually write things like this. But the Mira gave me the cashmere I'd always longed for and thought I couldn't have — soft, warm, weightless, and quietly luxurious, and it goes with everything I own. It's barely left me since it arrived. If you've made do with scratchy, heavy knits the way I had, this is the one I'd tell you to try, while the sale is still on.

— Sandra Thompson · Mount Pleasant, SC

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This is a personal account from a Clarke Family customer. Sandra was not paid to write it. · The Clarke Family · Family Fashion · South Carolina, since 1986 · Free UPS shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee.