Full-zip Cashmere Cardigan Issue

[kronik]

So, I recently purchased a sweater from AHarris / world*class*consignment (which had impeccable service, I might add - thanks Andrew). It's a Cucinelli 100% cashmere cardigan. To me, there's something odd about it.. it's like the zipper they used is too stiff for the fabric, so if I move forward at all.. it kind of gravitates towards a sharp angle in the zipper and it looks very odd.

Is this normal? If not, any recommendations for a remedy?

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by kronik

So, I recently purchased a sweater from AHarris / world*class*consignment (which had impeccable service, I might add - thanks Andrew). It's a Cucinelli 100% cashmere cardigan. To me, there's something odd about it.. it's like the zipper they used is too stiff for the fabric, so if I move forward at all.. it kind of gravitates toward a sharp angle in the zipper, and it looks very odd.

Is this normal? If not, any recommendations on for a remedy?

With your kind of money I'd just burn the sweater and get something else

 

[Full Canvas]

Your sad-but-true zipper situation is common to not only sweaters. It occurs with shirts and jackets as well if the zipper and its attaching fabric are poorly matched in relative strength to the garment. I notice an unsightly bulge when seated while wearing such a mismatch.

I suppose that an investment in time and "shoe leather" are required to find the correct strength and color match unless your tailor or seamstress can order something suitably soft and harmonious. I notice the zippers on Mrs. FC's two Agnona zippered cashmere cardigans each have very fine zipper teeth and soft attaching fabric. Those sweaters do not have unsightly folds or bulges when she moves about. That is not the case with any of the zippered jackets in my wardrobe.

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[kronik]

Originally Posted by edmorel

With your kind of money I'd just burn the sweater and get something else

I'm going to kill you, ed.

 

[AmInAm]

Originally Posted by kronik

To me, there's something odd about it.. it's like the zipper they used is too stiff for the fabric, so if I move forward at all.. it kind of gravitates towards a sharp angle in the zipper and it looks very odd.

Is this normal? If not, any recommendations for a remedy?

Don't zippers loosen up with usage? I'm pretty sure that at least the zippers on my Loro Piana Horsey jacket were very stiff when I first got it but are now (four or five years later) quite supple.

I only have one zippered cardigan (a nice heavy, densely knit Zanone) and I think that the zipper there was also stiffer when I got it (something like six or seven years ago, which is why I don't remember so clearly).

 

[raley]

Could you get the zipper taken off and put on a double zipper?

 

[A Harris]

Hmm, I'm wearing a full zip mock-turtleneck vest at the moment and it is doing the exact same thing. It has a pretty light zipper, but still tends to kink at certain points along it's length, especially when you sit down... I think that pretty much any zipper is going to be much more rigid than a cashmere knit, so I'm not sure there is any getting around it.