Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Festive Cardigan Alert

And Tuesday Twirl

Dear friends. The Boden Christmas catalogue came through the letterbox and I was immediately smitten by the Mae "novelty cardigan". It has festive feels, but isn't too over-the-top.

I snapped it up because items like this at Boden sell out very quickly. I wore it to a gathering at RHS Wisley, around the time of my birthday.

The cardigan is in a lovely soft wool, not itchy at all. It's 40% polyamide, 35% RWS certified wool, 15% cotton, 10% RAS certified alpaca. It is adorned (or decked) with boughs of embroidered holly and 3D pompom berries around the neckline.

The red matches exactly my Kettlewell ponte wide red trousers in Poppy. They pool over the shoes but that's very on trend at the moment. I prefer long to short. I wouldn't wear them on a rainy day.

I have a couple of subtle festive jumpers/sweaters. One is cream with a gold reindeer. When I was working, it was usual for the marketing team to travel to the US in December, and we would wear our Christmas jumpers on the Friday. To start with it wasn't at all 'a thing' there, but Christmas themed clothes - PJs, hoodies and so on - have become more mainstream in the US.

Some of the ladies who gathered at RHS Wisley on Friday. It was warm enough to eat outside, and I didn't need my coat. We had fun wandering around the annual Craft Fair and trying on hats.

Do you avoid festive clothing like the plague, or do you succumb? Do tell in the comments.

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