To a long-sleeved cotton cardigan with a peplum flare below the waist, Ms. Fitzgerald added crocheted roses at the neck and silvery bells for buttons.

He had a ragged grey beard and was wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt under a torn cotton cardigan.

In a ruffled, flowered, uneven chiffon skirt, a turtleneck, a long, belted cotton cardigan and knee-high boots, she was, by the season's standards, impeccably dressed.

I got very nice skirts, silk shirts, nice 100-percent cotton cardigans.

Long cotton cardigans and tailored jackets extend the white grouping.

"They're a vacation from heavy jewelry, to accent lapels and collars or frame a T-shirt torso under a cotton cardigan," Ms. Frittelli said.

Later that week, at Sam's Club in Fishkill, she bypassed blue topaz earrings but couldn't resist a black ribbed cotton cardigan.

A hand-knitted cotton cardigan with an all-over design of brightly colored flowers on a black or turquoise ground is $195.

For purists there is a low-buttoned cotton cardigan hand-knitted in an interesting textured stitch, $98 in winter white.

She was dressed in powder blue slacks, a matching floral-print blouse, a white cotton cardigan, and white tennis shoes.