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A sweater that forgives you for not knowing where the buttons would've gone.
means A sweater with no fasteners, made to be pulled on over the head rather than buttoned or zipped.
from Straightforward compound English: 'pull' plus 'over,' describing exactly how the garment is put on. It entered clothing vocabulary in the early 1900s to distinguish this style from cardigans and other front-opening knits — a rare case of a word meaning precisely what it says.
- name origin
- you pull it over your head, genius
- vs cardigan
- no front opening, zero commitment to buttons
- peak era
- 1920s golf courses loved them first