SHIRLEY | Quarter zip with bright stripes

I put it on with the same jeans I always wear and suddenly the outfit was finished. I did nothing else.

Getting dressed stops being fun when every outfit is the same two neutrals and the effort of making it look like anything falls to jewelry, a scarf, a jacket, and twenty minutes you did not want to spend. The alternative most women reach for is another plain sweater, which changes nothing. Shirley puts the color in the garment so the rest of the outfit can stay simple.

Bold horizontal stripes run across the body, which does the work a necklace or a scarf would otherwise have to. The quarter zip opens at the stand collar when a room warms up and closes again outside, so you adjust rather than removing a layer. The cut is relaxed and skims the body instead of clinging. Ribbed cuffs and hem hold their position rather than riding up through the afternoon, and the length stops at the hip.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• The stripes finish the outfit. Plain pants and this are genuinely enough, which is the whole argument for it.
• The quarter zip handles the thermostat. Open it in an overheated room and close it in the wind, without taking anything off.
• Ribbed cuffs and hem stay put. It does not creep up over the hips by three in the afternoon the way a plain hem does.
• Warm without bunching under a coat. The knit adds heat but stays flat, so it goes under outerwear without doubling up at the arms.

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How it fits

Relaxed and hip length, in S through 3XL. Take your usual size. If you are between two, take the larger one, because horizontal stripes show strain more plainly than a solid color does and you want the lines running straight across rather than being pulled apart. It comes in Navy, White and Gray. Returns are covered below.

30 days to change your mind

Wear it with the plainest thing you own and see whether that is enough. If it is not right, send it back within 30 days for a full refund. No restocking fee and no conditions attached.

A few recent reviews

The stripes are brighter in person and I mean that as a compliment. Enid G., Tempe

I zip it up on the walk in and open it at my desk. That is ten times a day. Marcella D., Henderson

At 66 I was unsure about horizontal stripes. The relaxed cut means they do not cling anywhere. Ophelia R., Naples