I picked three items as short-sleeve knit pullovers that are great to wear on their own during the change of seasons: MARGESHERWOOD's heart boucle knit top in black and ivory, plus RECTO's lace jacquard knit top in bean ivory. When it's hot during the day and chilly in the mornings and evenings, textured knits with three-dimensional weaves that hold air without clinging to your body are the ones you reach for most often.
Bouclé is a French word meaning a curled bundle of hair. Originally, it was a rough, heavy tweed wool that Scottish men wore when hunting, but in the 1920s Gabrielle Coco Chanel brought it into womenswear, developing it into a soft and lightweight bouclé fabric. By the 1950s, it came together as the comfortable and elegant Chanel tweed suit, remaining loved to this day as the pinnacle of classics.
Thanks to its nubby bouclé yarn, MARGESHERWOOD's piece never feels plain even when worn all by itself, while RECTO's jacquard knit gives a calm and neat impression with its subtle knit structure. Shall we focus on the bumpy boucle knits, or would you prefer to look at slim fits or ivory tones first?
↳ I want to see boucle knits
For boucle knits, I picked two items from the list: MARGESHERWOOD's heart boucle knit top in black and ivory. Thanks to the distinct three-dimensional texture that brings out the yarn's nubby loops, it doesn't look flat even when thrown on by itself, bringing out a cozy texture.
Bouclé was the very material that furniture designer Eero Saarinen first introduced in the 1940s to snugly wrap firm, curved surfaces when creating the Womb Chair, which you sink into like a basket of pillows. The thick sense of comfort crafted by highlighting the looped texture of the yarn made a mark in furniture history, traveled through Coco Chanel's jackets, and flowed all the way into today's knitwear.
That cozy feeling of wrapping your body is remarkably similar between the chair and this knit. Shall we look at the neat black color first, or does the bright ivory catch your eye?
↳ I want to see the black color
Matching the black color, I picked MARGESHERWOOD's HEART BOUCLE KNIT TOP_black. With a heart detail added to the nubby bouclé weave, it's a short-sleeve knit where the dimensional texture comes alive even within dark tones.
In the 1950s, when Juliette Gréco took the stage in underground clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris dressed in black, the all-black sweater became a symbol of intellect and rebellion. While she confessed that she originally started wearing it simply because she had no money, it became established as a uniform signaling an attitude unconfined by the established order through her exchanges with existentialist intellectuals like Sartre and Camus. This rebellious yet polished charm of the black knit passed through the Beat Generation to Audrey Hepburn in cinema, becoming a timeless classic.
Thanks to the neat black base, it's a piece where the unique, crisp texture of bouclé feels all the more sophisticated. Shall we take it a step further from here? Would you like to look at long-sleeve boucle knits, explore other black short-sleeve knits, or set the price under KRW 100,000?
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