I've been wanting to blog about beaded cardigans since I did
my tutorial on how to embroider and bead a cardigan. So here's a picture-heavy post packed with pretty little sweaters. Vintage shops are stuffed full of beaded cardigans from the '50s, '60s and '70s. There especially seems to be a wellspring of grandmotherly cream-colored cardigans, which look perfect layered over a vintage
Mad Men-esque dress or skirt. Sometimes these cardigans can get way fugly though -- with their boxy shapes and matronly shoulder pads -- but there are also plenty of perfectly sweet finds out there. The trend these days is toward longer, slouchier cardigans that hit at the hip, but most of the old cardigans you'll find will nip in your waist and hit just below your bellybutton. Which is flattering in a different kind of way. A way that celebrates your curves -- or your rail thinness (if you're the girl below).
This is cheating because it isn't really a cardigan and it isn't vintage but I wanted to include it anyway because I love it. Too bad it's $189. It looks like something Karen on
Californication would wear. That's a good thing.
A cardigan clip. So cool. I don't own one, but now I wish I did.
Maybe I'll just make one. Here's
a tutorial on how to make the one below:
