Art Essay Tommy Hoodie

Celeste is a color word doing real work. In Italian it is the pale blue of a clear sky, nearer to a tint than to a blue, and it behaves on cashmere the way pale colors do on any hair fiber: the halo of the yarn catches light, so the color reads slightly differently at every angle and never quite settles on one value. Sand is the opposite argument, a warm neutral that disappears into skin and into almost everything worn next to it. The garment under both is the same one: a hooded cashmere sweater with buttons at the collar. We cannot tell you whether they fasten anything, and we are not going to say they do. What can be said is that a button on a collar is a knitwear finish rather than a jersey one, and that it is the detail separating this from a sweatshirt with a hood on it.

A plain cashmere hoodie is a thing everyone makes now. One finished like knitwear rather than like a sweatshirt is not, and that is the difference we were looking for.

Art Essay knits cashmere in Italy, and this is the house at its plainest, where there is nothing on the garment except the way it has been finished.

One hundred percent cashmere. Made in Italy. Hooded, with buttons at the collar. Two colorways: Sand, a warm neutral, and Celeste, a pale blue. We do not hold a gauge, a measurement, or an account of what the buttons fasten.

Cashmere at any weight relaxes with wearing and then holds where it has relaxed, so choose this one on the shoulder rather than on the body. A hood adds weight at the back of the neck and will pull the front of a knit slightly down over time, which is normal on any hooded knit and is one more reason to fold it rather than hang it.

Sand with anything, which is what a warm neutral is for. Celeste against indigo and against grey, where a pale blue reads as light rather than as color. Under the Lily Long Cardigan if you want two knits and no jacket.

Cashmere is a short hair fiber, and every wash is a chance for the surface to pill, so wash it rarely, cool, and by hand, and dry it flat. Never hang a wet cashmere, and do not hang a hooded one for long even dry, because the weight of the hood will do the rest on its own. Fold it. Pills are normal on a short fiber and come off with a comb rather than with a razor. Our care guidance covers the rest.

The Lily Long Cardigan is the cotton layer that goes over this, and the Kara Hoodie is the same shape with everything happening at the hood. Everything we carry from Art Essay is listed together.