Leopard Print Button Front Knit Cardigan

About this piece

A button-up shirt with a clean front and a collar that holds its shape when worn open as well as buttoned. It is deliberately straightforward. There is one obvious way to use it, it works the way you expect, and it does not need to be handled carefully to survive normal life. It comes in 1 colour.

Fabric and feel

A mid-weight knit with a soft, dry hand and enough body to hold its shape through a day of wear. It stretches with you rather than against you, and it returns to shape when you take it off — which is the difference between a knit that still looks tidy in month three and one that has gone slack at the elbows.

Cut and fit

The seams are flat-felled or bound rather than overlocked and left raw, so there is nothing to catch and nothing to fray out of the wash. Hems are re-turned twice before stitching, and the shoulder seam carries a strip of tape so it does not stretch out of line on a hanger. It is graded S/M/L/XL, and the flat measurements for every size are in the chart below. Pattern pieces are cut to a consistent grain, which is why the two sides hang the same way instead of one twisting forward. Fastenings are load-bearing: the buttons, zip or drawcord are the ones the design actually needs, not the cheapest that would hold the shape on a shelf.

Getting the collar right

A button-front shirt cut with a straight body and a shorter collar, so it reads smart without a tie. Pockets, plackets and waistbands are the parts that decide whether a garment gets worn, so they are treated as structure rather than as decoration.

Wearing, washing and keeping it

The care instructions are short on purpose. Wash it the way you would wash anything you intend to keep, dry it flat or on a line, and it will hold the shape it arrived in. Choose it from what the listing says rather than from the letter on something you already own. A chest and waist reading tells you far more than the label does, which is why the chart below lists both. Worn in rotation rather than every single day, it holds its surface noticeably longer — and that applies to the cloth and the seams in equal measure.

Specifications

Style	Leopard Print Button Front Knit Cardigan
Sizes	S, M, L, XL — flat measurements in the size chart
Materials	Mid-weight knit with two-way stretch, matte finish
Colours	Leopard
What you get	1 x Leopard Print Button Front Knit Cardigan

Measurements by size

Measured flat, in centimetres. Knitwear relaxes and settles after the first wash, so allow for up to 2 cm of movement in either direction.

Allow 1-2 cm of tolerance, since the garments are cut and sewn by hand rather than stamped. If your measurement lands between two sizes, take the larger one - our fits are not vanity sized.

How we would wear it

1. Buttoned, no tie

   The collar has enough stand to look deliberate on its own.

2. Open over a tee

   Works as a light layer without the collar collapsing.

3. Tucked with a belt

   Long enough to stay tucked through a day of sitting and standing.

4. Untucked with denim

   The hem line is cut to look intentional rather than borrowed.

In the box

• 1 x Leopard Print Button Front Knit Cardigan

Care

Machine wash cold on a delicate cycle and dry flat in the shade. Do not hang a wet knit — the weight is what stretches shoulders out of line. Do not tumble dry and do not iron directly; steam from the reverse if it needs refreshing between washes.

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