When the temperature drops even further, I'm more than happy to re-visit my coats -- sweater coats, toggle coats and parkas both short and long.
Mr. Henry's Carven show was one of the few, if only, places you could find a prim tartan dress with lace cutouts perversely cupping the breasts, shown alongside a stylized version of a navy schoolboy's coat with toggle closures, thickly knit fitted sweaters and patent-leather shorts.
Chunky cable-knit sweaters sport horn toggle buttons.
The opening outfits were based around rubber-printed cotton twill pants, tight and crazily splattered, and worn with a cropped boiled-wool jacket with toggles or a chunky Nordic-style sweater over a school-uniform white shirt.
The women, too, seem to gravitate toward heavy knit sweaters, similarly toggled jackets, patterned tights for their legs and headbands.
The collection is rounded out with sportswear that has a lived-in feel, including jean jackets with Navajo pattern details, plaid flannel shirts, fleece shorts and sweat shirts in arrowhead prints, rag sweaters and nautical-looking jackets with toggle closures.
There was a men's toggle jacket made from burlap, or so it seemed, and not far away, a drapey white sweater that appeared to be crocheted ($265).
His "grandpa sweater," as Givhan dubbed it in a 2016 story, with its "vaguely lopsided fit" and "toggle closures that might be found on a child's coat," had the look "of a sick-bed sweater.
They're still around, most recently co-opted by Burberry, above, which showed toggles on bright coats that were short or long, trench or otherwise, and even on a sweater.
Dressed in his workday uniform of a black cashmere sweater the day after the show, he sauntered into his studio, making straight for a brown satin toggle coat.
