Einstein-style sweater

Aaronlowe said:

I'd try here: https://www.outdoorknitwear.com/ I have several of their products and quality is very good (especially for the reasonable price).

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Turnip said:

Maybe something like a

Men‘s Shetland from Harley Of Scotland

or a

Shetland Voe

Cheers

Turnip

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Ticklishchap said:

Funny you should say that, because as you might see from other threads I am a stalwart customer of OK and have a large collection of their Woolly Pully sweaters and a Submariners sweater from them.
I am also a great fan of fishermen’s sweaters, especially Guernseys.
OK don’t do this type of sweater but I am looking at some traditional Shetland sites at the moment.
I have often joked that OK should pay me a commission as I am constantly recommending it, including here on FL.
Which of their sweaters do you have, if I may ask?

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Aaronlowe said:

I have a light blue and also a beige pully. Living in SoCal neither get much use these days. I also have a Fjallraven (too lazy to look up the correct spelling) sweater that I picked up in Sweden a few years ago. It's very similar to the Einstein sweater you seek. At least worth a look on their website.

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Ticklishchap said:

I mean campbellsofbeauly.com (!)

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Aaronlowe said:

I'll check it out, even with the incorrect spelling/url lol

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Stanley Doble said:

In Einstein's student days the turtleneck sweater, dungarees and leather jacket was the uniform of the student radical, borrowed from the working class. He preferred to dress this way all his life. If you could find out what sort of sweater factory workers wore in Berlin in 1900 that would be the look.

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Ticklishchap said:

I am looking for a wool sweater similar to the one above, in this iconic photograph of Albert Einstein: close-knit wool with turn-back cuffs. It would be an occasional change from the military and fisherman's sweaters for which I am noted. I have owned a number of them in the past, mainly in my teens and 20s, and they used to be very easy to get. Yet now they seem scarce. Does anyone else on FL wear them, like them or know of a store where they can be obtained?

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STEVIEBOY1 said:

I like that style too, very much 1960s/1970s, I had some in Vee, Crew and Roll Neck, all Shetland wool. You don't see them very often these days which is a pity.

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