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One from the Graham Leggate collection, a Norwegian selburose design. A sweater (North American English) or pullover, also called a jersey or jumper (British English, Hiberno-English and Australian English), [1] is a piece of clothing, typically with long sleeves, made of knitted or crocheted material that covers the upper part of the body.
The sweater he wore during MTV's Nirvana Unplugged concert sold at auction for $137,500 (equivalent to $176,744 in 2023) [13] in November 2015. It was reported to have a burn hole, a button missing, and discoloration around the pockets. [14] [15] In 2019 it was re auctioned for $334,000 (equivalent to $398,035 in 2023). [13] [16]
Madonna Knitting, by Bertram of Minden 1400-1410 1855 sketch of a shepherd knitting, while watching his flock The Knitting Woman by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869. Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to pull and loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric.
An Aran cardigan in the traditional white báinín colour.. The Aran jumper (Irish: Geansaí Árann), also called a fisherman's jumper or a gansey, is a style of jumper [1] that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.
A traditional knit jersey. Traditionally, a jersey is an item of knitted clothing, generally made of wool or cotton, with sleeves, worn as a pullover, as it does not open at the front, unlike a cardigan.
A second group of researchers, also relying on the genetic clock, estimate that clothing originated between 30,000 and 114,000 years ago. [10] It is important to note that some of these estimates predate the first known human exodus from Africa.
The hooded sweatshirt is a utilitarian garment that originated in the 1930s for workers in cold New York warehouses and thus have been around for over 90 years. [7] In the 1970s and 1980s, hoodies were adopted by hip hop culture as a symbol of what one reporter termed "cool anonymity and vague menace". [7]
A raglan sleeve sweatshirt with Harley-Davidson branding. A sweatshirt is a long-sleeved pullover shirt or jacket fashioned out of thick, usually cotton, cloth material. [1] [2] Sweatshirts are almost exclusively casual attire and hence not as formal as some sweaters.