Isabella | Ochre Hooded Cardigan with Bees

I am 61 and most knitwear either swamps me or clings. This sits close enough to look neat and still lets me move.

Thick knit, but nothing like the weight I expected. I take a UK 14 and it fits across the shoulders without pulling at the buttons.

It skims the tummy instead of clinging, which is the whole reason I bought it. Three weeks in and it still holds its shape.

The colours are as bright as the photographs, no disappointment there. I would prefer slightly longer sleeves, so I turn the cuffs back and it looks deliberate.

Four days from ordering to my door. I wore it to a garden centre lunch and two women at the next table asked where it was from.

Warm on a cold morning walk and not the slightest itch, which matters because most wool leaves me scratching at my neck.

I normally keep to plain colours. This pattern still feels like me, and the buttons are proper weight rather than the thin plastic you often get.

It arrived creased from the parcel and I did wonder. Hung it up overnight and every crease had dropped out by morning.

I took the UK 18 so I could wear a shirt underneath, and there is room to do exactly that without it feeling tight anywhere.

Two washes at thirty degrees and the colour has not shifted. That alone puts it ahead of the cardigan I bought on the high street.

No scratchy seams inside, which is rare at this price. The pockets take my phone and keys without sagging out of shape.

At 5ft 2 most cardigans swamp me. This one stops just over the hip, so it lengthens me instead of hiding me.

Warmer than I expected, and well finished. The sizing runs a little generous, so I would take one size down if I ordered again.

I bought it while recovering from surgery because I needed something I could get on without lifting my arms. It has made a real difference.

Smart enough that I wore it to my grandson's christening, soft enough that I put it back on that evening at home.