The bigger the better, the tighter the sweater

Its funny, but when I was younger I hated to be caught out in a sweater. My mother was a sweater queen and thusly I hated them. Cardigans, pullovers, turtlenecks, V necks. It didn’t matter, they were all tainted with essence of my mothers style. I did have a lavender cowl neck that I would wear when it was just really, really, Michigan cold, because the cowl neck was initially too radical for Mom. She was mostly from the cardigan generation. The cowl neck is also not a Purely Evil turtleneck.
Although, now that I think about it, I did have an aberrant fondness for one of those 70’s style long, belted, sweater coats for awhile around 78. I also had a super tight powder blue sweater dress in the 80’s, I could get away with wearing it when I was a skinny speed freak. I’d put it on with some 4 inch spikes to go hustle pool with my boyfriend. It was a good ploy.

Now, I love sweaters.
It all started with a tiny, black, strappy, soft, fuzzy, thing. Then I started acquiring more of the little strappy, busty, ones. These were definitely not my Mother’s sweaters.
Then Dali got a black Merino wool cardigan on the clearance rack at Hudson’s for 20 bucks. It just wasn’t him. I said “let me try it on before you return it”. I fell in love. I so wore that thing that it’s now all tatters. I would wear it all winter, all spring, all fall. I wore it constantly through both my lengthy convalescence.
I’d even sleep in it sometimes. It was so very soft, tightly woven, warm and fairly water resistant.
What makes this so weird is, I have huge issues with sleeves, collars, pants, socks, blankets and certain materials. I feel like I’m suffocating. And strangulating. Confined and bound. Itchy. Gah. But that one breathed.

But of late, when the beloved sweater became too scraggly for wearing in public, I started buying other sweaters. It really helped that there was a plethora of them at Valu-world and on the clearance racks. I got zip ups, short cardigans, a long 70’s style cardigan and then discovered these super light, loose weave, angora, bolero like, sweaters. I bought three. I now possess a REALLY inordinate quantity of sweaters and I find this to be just really, really odd.