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Cardi Bain

The world's most expensive cardigan.

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Nov 25, 2022
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Kurt Cobain's iconic mohair green cardigan and his Fender Mustang guitar, sold at auction in New York in October 2019

The story of the world’s most expensive cardigan starts in the mid-1960s. At that time, mohair was a popular textile in menswear, as a rising middle class made dressing to convey a certain status all the more imperative. There was more leisure time and men needed clothes for places that weren’t just the office, and more casual items like cardigans fit t…

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