Top Three Sweaters To Buy


While the weather is still beautiful, the evenings seem to be noticeably cooler, making this the perfect time to sort through your sweater collection and update or even enhance it for the coming autumn and winter seasons. Regardless of what lifestyle you lead, whether you are a corporate executive, administrative assistant, a teacher or a student, nice sweaters can play a exquisite role in your wardrobe. If you're going to work, running personal errands or even indulging yourself in leisurely activities, these garments can be dressed up or down, all depending on what you want.

There are many Hollywood celebrities who wear sweaters to entertainment events, receptions, parties and fashion shows. In particular, actors Orlando Bloom and Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon are often captured in the celebrity circuit wearing a variety of the latest of fashionable sweaters. Even the Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry has often been seen posing in stylish and sexy sweaters. Beautiful celebrities like these posing in the latest sweaters is enough to make you want to go through your closet and update your collection of sweaters.

Cotton sweaters are the most easy to care for and they are virtually season-less. Going from work to weekend in the blink of an eye, you can find beautiful colors and playful patterns and most of the styles can be washed by machine or hand. Cotton is the perfect material for the warmer seasons when cashmere or wool would be exceptionably hot. You can generally find fine cotton sweaters for under $75.

Wool can come in many different types of fiber. The merino and lambs wool is a finer fiber that is comfortable without the itch. Alpaca is a stronger, yet still soft type of fiber. Mohair and Shetland are made from coarser fibers and are long wearing. Always keep your wool sweaters folded and never hand them on a clothes hanger. Although some wools can be machine washed, be careful to check the instructions on the tag before tossing it in the wash. Fine quality wool sweaters can be found for under $100.

Cashmere sweaters can be acquired in an array of styles, qualities and prices. The garment is most often described in ply's. Two-ply cashmere is described to have a finer hand and three-ply and up makes for a heavier knit. Normally cashmere can be hand washed, only when necessary, with a mild soap and laid flat to dry. You can expect to pay at least $100 or more.