If your workplace is anything like the many offices I've had the privilege of frequenting, you will be familiar with the facilities team and their apparent inability to get a grip on the air-conditioning. Don't they don't realise that in-vogue semi-sheer work shirts from Zara are not cut out for aggressive air conditioning, and they crease up underneath cardigans in the most unappealing and sartorially-blah way ever?
My solution: knitwear! Even in high summer, I am drooling over knitwear and wanting to wear it NOW! Enter the label after my heart: Carven. I am already way too obsessed with Carven, and have made it my life's mission to embody the Carven girl (bows on shoes and all). Guillaume Henry has a penchant for sweaters with unorthodox slits (or holes) - he's done them
over and over again. and I think they're the perfect tool in the fight against frumpy knitwear.
My personal favourite is the grey fleece sweater, I love the Carven scribbled across the front, as if on a high school American football captains jacket, it has the just the right mix of sincerity and humour to get me all excited. Alternatively, there's a great Carven knit pullover which goes with pretty much every colour stylists have thought to pair it with (seriously -
check it) and is also subdued enough to wear every week without your co-workers wondering if it's the only jumper you own. Also - STRIPES! What better way is there to apply personality to your work wear than stripes (and polka dots, oh polka dots...).
The down side of all this awesomeness? Money doesn't grow on trees. So, whilst the grey fleece sweater is going straight on my universal wishlist (side note: loved ones, I love you), I will be keeping an eye out for high street versions, and hoping they're almost as cute.
