Wool sweater dress or wool jumper dress, warm knits

Let’s be straight with you first. If you typed in wool sweater dress, you should know we don’t sew with wool at all, so nothing on this page is wool. Instead you’ll find warm knits we cut and sew ourselves, in rib, angora blend and jersey, made for the same cold days.

What keeps you warm if it isn’t wool

Angora blend is the softest of the three. It’s a fluffy knit, warm like a pullover, and our milky white turtleneck midi in it doesn’t itch against bare skin. Bad heating at work? Plain opaque tights under it and you’re set.

Rib knit has those raised vertical lines and hugs the body. It stretches and springs back, which is why a rib turtleneck midi can go from a morning meeting to a late dinner without bagging at the elbows. Thick tights and knee boots finish the cold-weather version.

Jersey is the smoothest. It’s what we use for the frilled black and burgundy minis, short with long sleeves, good for a date in November.

So will a knit do the job you’d give a wool jumper dress? On a frosty day, with tights and a decent coat, yes. Angora in particular warms you like a sweater does. A high neck helps more than you’d think. That’s why so many of these have a turtleneck or a stand collar.

Mini, midi, high neck or a keyhole

For the office, we’d go midi. The beige angora turtleneck looks right with a brown blazer and loafers, and the navy rib one is as serious as black, just softer.

Short ones are for after work. Our red rib mini has a keyhole cutout at the chest that already draws the eye, which makes earrings or a ring a better bet than anything at the neck. Several rib midis have no sleeves, and you can layer them over a thin turtleneck when it’s freezing, then wear them alone in a warm room.

Tired of black in winter? Pink, mint, light blue and emerald all turn up in rib here, alongside the usual black and white.

We make every style in XS to XL. Rib follows your shape closely, so go by your hip measurement, and with stretchy angora your usual size normally works.