Jumpers How Much Would You Pay?

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Hello Lovely Mumsnetters

Really interested to know what is the most you would pay for a jumper and what is your 'go to' favourite place to shop for jumpers?

For years I have been going to H&M, M&S and Next, buying jumpers which are OK and around the £40 price range.

Starting to think now buy less, spend more and get something I really like rather than thinking what I am buying is OK.

Would really appreciate your views/guidance as not sure best places to look or how much to budget.

Many thanks for your guidance.

Up to a £100-ish, preferably around £50.

I have two rules: EVERYTHING I wear goes in the washing machine and gets tumble-dried afterwards. If it can't be done - I'm not interested. Except for coats/leather jackets/trench coats.

I don't live/work for my clothes, they work for me. So like hell I'm going to faff with some 'special' jumpers, delicately washing them by hand and then 'airing' them, that's ridiculous. Quick wash, intensive spin and tumble-dry. Life's too short.

Plus I don't pray to the sacred 'Natural Fibres', I'm perfectly fine with poly, love viscose. I don't sweat a lot, so poly is fine with me. In fact, I prefer synthetic fibres, as they look sleek and are low maintenance. All the dreaded cottons and especially horrible linen crease to shit just from looking at them.

Wouldn't pay £300 for a jumper even if it cooked me dinner and serenaded me afterwards. It's absolutely not worth this price in my book, even if it was knitted by a Loch Ness monster from Unicorn hair. But I'd pay that (and more) for coats, shoes and bags.

So many from fat face last for yrs.I get them on sale mostly.
Couple from Uniqlo slim fit merino.
Sugar hill Brighton.
Matalan cheapies for hot bus journeys.😊
Last week I bought a full price fat face cream cable one as it looks cosy.
56 quid.

I also only buy wool jumpers, at least 80% wool. My favourite, and most expensive, is from the Icelandic Association of Handknitters, and cost the equivalent of about £220 last year, but I claimed my tax back. It's big, thick and chunky. I also have a couple of the £30 Uniqlo merinos which are excellent for work. Also various mid priced Juliet's from Seasalt, The Croft House, People Tree, Alpkit and various other places.

I love a wooly jumper!

Normally £150-200 for a cashmere jumper, I like Poetry and Jugsaw. Just bought this from N Peal for a particular outfit www.npeal.com/products/super-fine-long-sleeve-cashmere-top-new-ivory-white

For cotton/ linen, about £100, but I also like the Uniqlo range which is much cheaper.

Yes, seems pretty accurate to me! With the exception of their Aliana jumper - it was gigantic but it was so large I actually think it was a mislabelled jumper as all the rest are true to size. Their returns process is fine though.

I'm allergic to wool, cashmere, alpaca, and angora. Some cotton is too rough and irritates my skin. Narrows my choices a lot!

I like soft viscose, there is a brand I like which sells jumpers for around £70, or I buy from Next or somewhere (viscose only, no polyester!) so about £40?

Mostly £15 or less from charity shops amd Vinted. I have White Stuff, Jigsaw, Karen Millen, GAP, Massimo Dutti. But one of my warmest ones is a ghastly polyester hoodie from Tresspass (it never leaves the house though).

I follow some really good Preloved sites and buy second hand which is always either excellent condition or new with tags. I only buy wool, cashmere and sometimes with alpaca / mohair.
I don't buy acrylic or one size items.

I also buy in the winter sales for the following year. Buying brands like JUMPER 1 2 3 4 for £90. Also Vinted or EBay but I'm careful who I buy from and that they only have excellent reviews!

You don’t have buy expensive items for them to last. I think this gets pushed a lot to prop up the fashion industry when people are buying fewer clothes. I have jumpers from Uniqlo that are 20yrs old and some expensive cashmere items that have got holes in and pulled after a couple of years. I look after my clothes in terms of washing (well my husband does as he’s much better at that sort of thing than me!).

There is so much plastic now in jumpers. I've been looking and everything seems to have acrylic or polyester in it. It's rather depressing. I have been thinking about starting knitting again as I have some alpaca skeins in a box somewhere. Either that or second hand cashmere.

Spent £220 on a cashmere jumper in COS last year.

I've worn it at least twice a week since then, including in July and August due to the chilly summer.

Absolute bargain. Still looks amazing.

I love all the knitwear from Sezane. It tends to be between £100 and £150.

Ihave bought cashmere from various places including Jigsaw and Poetry. It does tend to shrink in the wash and is more for going out than everyday I would say.
The white company has some lovely knitwear too

Excellent thread OP. I am watching with interest.
To those who use moth strips - is there a brand you use ? I've looked about (Robert Dyas seem to sell moth proofing) but is there an absolutely bomb proof strip, which doesn't add too much smell?

£350 ish

I struggle with animal fibres because I itch and polyester because of sweat. I did have lots of lovely cashmere stuff but everything gets eaten by moths. Even with moth killer.

My mum knitted me a beautiful sontag shawl and I use that. It's my favourite thing I own.

I spend anywhere up to about £200.

@LoafofSellotape @RogueFemale do you do one jumper at a time or put in a wash bag? How do you stop the jumper rubbing against itself or another jumper and felting? If it’s something I really like that’s 100% wool, I give it a quick wash in the shower and squeeze (not wrong) and then roll up into towel. If you air the jumpers, it’s not that much work, a couple of times through the winter.

I regularly dry tumble dry my cashmere for 20-30mins - gets rid of the little moth catapillar buggers by desiccating them.

Same! My absolute favourite jumper is a Uniqlo one that cost about £30 years ago and is still perfect. I tend to buy from Uniqlo, Fat Face, Tu at Sainsburys and sometimes M&S or Next.

DH bought me a cashmere jumper once which was lovely of him but it was a faff laundry-wise and got eaten by moths so I just cannot be bothered. It was soft, but not markedly nicer than many of my cheaper jumpers that I can put on a hand wash setting in the washing machine then hang on an airer to dry.

I wash all my cashmere woolwash 20 C air dry. I have an electronic defuzzer which works a treat, cheap one bought on Amazon. Cashmere is easily the least wear-resistant material I own and I wear it daily, the elbows go in my favourite jumpers - I swiss darn them if possible - the finer knits I'll darn them in the standard way. If they get a moth hole - mostly this happens my blanket scarves for some reason - I'll darn it - I don't mind wearing mended clothing.

The most I have spent is £75 but that was about 12 years ago, it was 100% lambs wool. I bought a a secondhand cashmere jumper not long after that so that’s my preference as a fabric but it’s expensive. So I buy those secondhand. The best jumper I have ever had was from Wallis and it was about £50 15 years ago, it’s just an acrylic mix but looks like new still and I have worn it loads.

Up to about £100 and I prefer natural fibres. I'm also a knitter and would spend that much on yarn for a jumper. I'm extremely lucky in that I'm not irritated by wool, don't mind hand washing where needed and we don't (so far) get moths.

Edit, I like Jigsaw, Hobbs, Community Clothing, but it's more about the quality than the shop. I don't buy those soft fluffy jumpers that disintegrate into a bobbly mess.

I do one jumper at a time. Never had any problem with felting, though maybe because they're quite thick (Toast) jumpers. I don't have cashmere anymore since I got a cat. I can only wear marl-type jumpers which don't show the cat hair (as much). Cashmere also tends to be quite thin and not warm enough in a drafty old house, but if I had an expensive cashmere jumper I wouldn't risk machine-washing.

Thanks to everyone who has shared the laundry tips.
The talk of moths is a tad off putting to be honest

I keep my wool jumpers in zip lock bags.

About £40, I like Brakeburn clothes but the defjnetly aren't 100% wool.

i WFH and have cats so when I've bought nice ones the cats have managed to pull them with their claws...the bonus being no one can tell when I WFH but they are no longer suitable for out and about in person. I'm also a bit rubbish at washing and would probably shrink anything more expensive