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Dare to don a pair of corduroys in a trending color or alongside eye-catching pieces—a shrunken sweater-vest, studded boots, a statement belt—and you’ll be rewarded with instant street style cred.—
Jasmine Fox-Suliaman,
Glamour,
31 Oct. 2025 There’s Morgan Spector in a Thom Browne sweater-vest, no undershirt, arm tattoos on display, or Colman Domingo in volumes of crisp, architectural suiting.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
23 May 2024 Wear a sweater-vest without feeling like an awkward nineteen-eighties sitcom dad.—
Audrey Burges,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023 The collaboration drops on September 6 with the aforementioned T-shirts as well as tennis skirts with lace trim, argyle sweater-vests, polos, and hoodies in pink, gray, and black.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2023 His sweater-vest hung off him like the ghost of someone else’s clothes.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Nov. 2022