The Soft Everyday Jumper You'll Live In

A soft cream knit with a characterful texture — warm without the scratch or the bulk, and it goes with everything. The first thing you'll reach for every cool morning.

My jumper drawer is full of things I never wear. The warm ones are scratchy against my skin, the soft ones are thin and useless once it turns properly cold, and the rest are shapeless and dull. Every cool morning I'd stand there and reach for the same tired thing anyway.

What I really wanted was one soft, warm jumper I could throw on with anything and actually enjoy wearing — cozy without the scratch, warm without the bulk, and with a bit of character to it. But the soft ones were plain and the interesting ones itched. Nothing was both.

It was my daughter Sarah, up in Boston, who told me to stop settling for scratchy and dull and try one from a small family boutique here in South Carolina — a soft cream 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 jumper is called the Sage, 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 soft everyday jumper you'll live in

We made the Sage as a soft cream knit with a lovely bit of texture — the kind of easy, cozy jumper you throw on the moment there's a chill and never quite want to take off. Warm, soft and quietly special all at once, and it goes with everything you own. The first thing you'll reach for, morning after cool morning.

2A characterful texture that lifts a plain jumper

Woven through the soft cream knit is a subtle grey dot-dash texture — a characterful detail that lifts it well above a plain jumper, without ever being loud or fussy. It looks considered and quietly expensive, the sort of thing people notice and admire, while staying the easiest, most comfortable thing in your drawer.

3Soft and warm, never itchy or bulky

The knit is wonderfully soft against the skin — warm and cozy without a hint of scratch, even if your skin's more sensitive than it used to be — and it's knit light enough to keep the chill off without adding bulk or swamping you. The kind of jumper you put on first thing and never want to take off.

4A soft neutral that goes with everything

It's a soft, warm cream — the kind of easy neutral that goes with everything you own: over jeans, with your trousers, under a coat, with any scarf. One jumper that quietly works with half your wardrobe, so you reach for it more than anything else you have.

5Long sleeves that cover and keep you cozy

The long sleeves cover the arms right to the wrist with a soft ribbed cuff, and the cozy knit keeps the chill off beautifully, so you're warm and covered from the first cool morning right through the season. Warm where you feel the cold most — the arms and shoulders — and lovely with it.

6A size for you, from S to 3XL

It's cut relaxed and easy, and it runs from S to 3XL, so it fits and flatters a real range of bodies — not one narrow idea of a figure. A jumper made to fit the woman, not to make the woman fit the jumper.

The Sage, against the jumpers in your drawer

	The usual jumper	The Sage
The feel	Scratchy, or thin and useless	Wonderfully soft, warm without scratch
The look	Plain, flat, forgettable	A characterful dot-dash texture
The bulk	Chunky, swamps you	Knit light — warm without the bulk
The colour	A shade that goes with nothing	A soft cream that goes with everything
The warmth	Cold arms, or too thin	Long sleeves that cover, cozy all season

Why they're clearing it now

They priced the Sage at $149.95 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 jumper is going out for well under half of that.

Mine arrived folded in tissue with a little handwritten note on top. I threw it on over my jeans that same cool morning, and it's barely left me since.

I don't usually write things like this. But the Sage has become the first thing I reach for the moment there's a chill — soft, warm, characterful, and it goes with everything. It's barely left me since it arrived. If your jumper drawer is full of things you never wear the way mine was, 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.