Andy Jackson In the pantheon of can I pull it off? the sweater vest is especially perplexing. “What is this for?” we ask as we stare at the enigmatic, sleeveless wonder once considered fuddy ...

The humble sweater vest has had one hell of a decade. In the early 2010s, the knitwear staple was all but left for dead, the sort of fuddy-duddy sartorial relic only your grandpa could love.