Sophie | Cozy Knitted Summer Cardigan

The blazer's job, without the blazer.

Meet the Sophie — the knitted cardigan cut like a tailored jacket. A wide shawl lapel folds around the neck and runs the full length of both front edges, which is the one detail that makes an eye read tailoring rather than knitwear, and small buttoned tabs sit at each hip to suggest a waist without anything being pulled in. What's missing is everything that makes a real blazer uncomfortable: no lining sticking to your arms, no shoulder pad holding a shape that isn't yours, no narrow sleeve stopping you reaching up. It runs past the hip at jacket length and hangs open with nothing to fasten, and the yarn is marled rather than flat, so a pale knit keeps catching the light instead of going dull. Lovingly offered by the Clarke family, a family-run South Carolina boutique since 1986.

Why you'll love the Sophie:

• A shawl lapel knitted in — the single detail that reads as a jacket rather than a cardigan.
• Nothing stiff in it — no lining, no padding, no narrow sleeve to fight.
• Buttoned tabs at the hips — they suggest a waist without anything gripping one.
• Jacket length — well past the hip, so it covers at the back over jeans.
• Open all the way down — two long vertical lines, and nothing to fasten.
• True to size, S–2XL — knitted with room to go over a shirt; between sizes, take the smaller.

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