TENDER TYPE STRING VEST COMBED COTTON YARN NAVY
$360.00
TENDER TYPE STRING VEST COMBED COTTON YARN NAVY
The String Vest is a hand-framed fully fashioned knit interpretation of vernacular men's string underwear. Cotton string vests became popular in the late 19th Century as a warm weather alternative to wool underwear worn with formal clothing. In the 20th Century they became popular with athletes, and apparently were worn in World War 1 by tank crews, to regulate heat, hence the name tank top.
The String Vest is knit in an open twisted stitch with plain knit bands at the edges of the panels, forming an outline of the construction around the seams.The neck is bound and the hem is cast off and allowed to roll back gently.The vest is finished with a Made in UK red label.
Cotton fibres can be treated in different ways during spinning, often chemically, to make them lie flat and parallel.The more fibre ends stick out of a twisted yarn the coarser its texture; the more parallel the fibres lie the silkier the yarn. Silk is silky because it is a filament yarn, extruded from a silk worm, and so has no broken ends per length of silk (just like mechanically extruded rayon, polyester, or nylon fishing wire).
Combing cotton through carding rollers gently teases the fibre into a parallel sliver before it is twisted into yarn, laying all the fibres in line.The more times this is repeated the silkier and smoother the finished garment. String vests and pullovers are knit from cotton spun in England and yarn dyed with colours to match the season's garments.
