The vest is one of the garments that keeps turning up in this winter's trend reports. It is worn as a layer, over a shirt, a T-shirt or a thin sweater. It keeps your body warm without bulky sleeves under your jacket.
The vests
Always Lovable – The Vest is a white wrap vest in leftover yarn, knitted sideways and tied with a belt.
The Dandelion – The Vest is a striped mohair vest with embroidered dandelions, and also comes as a Meadow Edition. Angel – The Vest is knitted in half brioche in alpaca.
You will also find Colour Me, Clover, Candy, Ocean, My Bohemian Me and Black & Gold.
How to wear it
Over a white shirt with the collar out. Over a T-shirt with jeans. Over a thin roll neck when it gets colder. A vest is also quicker to knit than a sweater, so it is a good place to start if you have never knitted a garment before.
I wear my vests over a high-necked cotton sweater, or over a T-shirt with jeans.
Did you know …
Fair Isle is a small island in Shetland. The patterns from there were almost unknown outside the islands until 1921, when the Prince of Wales started wearing Fair Isle knitwear on the golf course. Suddenly everyone wanted it, and the patterns were knitted on sweaters and vests all over Britain.
Sources: Maxted, AW26 Knitwear Trend Guide, Who What Wear, October 2026, Victoria and Albert Museum, A history of sweaters and No Man Walks Alone, Fair Isle Knitting.
Anne-Turid