Introducing the Sweater-kini
Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 15 February 2010 11:08 AM

I’ve yet to see one of these on the streets of Vancouver, a place where the weather might make it plausible. Call it a “sweater-kini.” Or just call it a fashionable oxymoron. The New York Daily News says the hottest items to make their way down the runways at New York Fashion Week are knitted wool swimsuits. The paper says if the impracticality or the deficit of appropriate places to wear them doesn’t turn you off, the inevitable smell of wet dog just might.
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Victoria Bartlett is the designer behind the sweater-kini
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