My Uniqlo Sweater Out-Sweaters Other Sweaters Quadruple Its Price

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Over the last five years or so I’ve acquired a lot of V-neck sweaters. I don’t know the exact number, and a CIA black site couldn’t extract an estimate out of me, but let’s just say I’ve assembled a team. I have impossibly fancy cashmere ones and a rainbow’s worth of vintage cotton ones. I have bouncy linen ones, and even a silk one that’s probably more like an ’80s-era coaches windbreaker, but the neck has the right shape so it qualifies. Right now, though, pretty much all of those are riding the bench because I recently snagged one from Uniqlo for $50, and it might be the best of the bunch.

Is my spree done? Probably not. An artist is never satisfied, but even I have to admit this is a damn-good V-neck.

It’s made out of what Uniqlo calls its “soufflé” yarn, which is both super warm and weighs basically nothing—soft and airy like the dessert it’s named for. It’s also knit without any seams for a wonderfully fluid, decidedly unstilted fit, which is a verbose way of saying it’s dumb comfortable. So comfortable, in fact, that I often forget to take it off when I get home and change into apartment clothes like I’m on a timer. And sure, sweaters have long been one of the retailer’s calling cards, but I never expected to be this enamored with this particular one when I saw it pop up online.

I went with the dark gray—primarily because of the aforementioned team and its still-glaring hole in the Charcoal position—but there are four other colors worth your attention, and pretty much all of them will mesh with the rest of your closet with equal ease.

The V-neck shape itself is relatively shallow—if I had to describe it as an ‘uppercase V’ or a ‘lowercase V,’ it would be the latter—which makes it fairly anodyne relative to other statement V-necks. But it still differentiates itself nicely from a standard crewneck and manages to vibe with a collared shirt famously well.

To be clear, I didn’t really have a sweater problem to solve, so I can’t be sure if this one will solve yours, but I do know that in a crowded field this stands out like it’s been injected with neon. Just looking for a great sweater that should get, at minimum, a wear a week for the foreseeable future? This one promises just that without requiring any sort of advanced outfit trigonometry.