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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.
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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
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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
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“Sweater-vest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweater-vest. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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