I am in my early 60's and in recent years have worn knitwear from Pure Collection, Kettlewell, Woolovers and Hobbs among others.
Kettlewell used to do lovely 100% merino cardigans (Aurelia/Marta if you're familiar with them) but they haven't done anything of that quality for two or three years now. The shapes of the longer line type cardigans (without being ridiculously long) suits my body shape much better than the boxy, short body shapes that are everywhere.
The other problem is that places like Toast also do the boxy shapes but tend to focus on more warm, natural colours where as I tend to suit cooler colours like fuchsia, royal blue, black or grey. The thing is knitwear imo has seriously gone downhill in terms of quality in most places (e.g. Pure Collection cardigans are now too short in the arm for me even though my arms are normal length and the body length seems to be getting shorter each year for years now).
So where does someone my age get decent knitwear in nice colours (not short in the body and boxy) and I am prepared to pay a bit for it, just not top quality designer prices which are silly. I like to buy decent quality pieces that I take care of - I've had a Hobbs cardigan for about twenty years now and it's still going strong.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.