Right now I'm watching Lets Make Love, paying much more attention to my knitting than the movie of course, but my attention was grabbed when Marilyn took the screen for her first scene. Then I was compelled to pause to search for a still of this sweater:
Now I want to make it... looks good on Marilyn! Reminds me of Beatnik so much that I'm wondering if Norah Gaughan got her inspiration from this particular hollywood sweater too. The overall theme is the same, with different pattern elements achieving the effect. Norah says the Beatnik is "A modern version of a cabled fisherman sweater with a nod to the 1960s beatnik in its boat neck and fitted shape." Hey, this movie was made in 1960... So I'm thinking, the arrangement of the cable patterns on both sweaters are fisherman (aran) reminiscent, the shapes are very similar, especially the neck, but Marilyn wears hers much looser. I like that this one has more positive ease, could wear it with leggings...
Sweaters in movies are always more interesting to me than the actual plot of the movie! The most recent Harry Potter had quite a few that made me drool, and practically all of Anne Hathaway's outfits in Love and Other Drugs made my fingers itch to google patterns and sketch sweaters.
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Imo you need the positive ease but without all the extra sleeve that makes it look like she's wearing a man's sweater.
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