PORTOBELLO'S (Greece) 70s, Jacquard, Virgin Wool

PORTOBELLO'S (Greece) 70s, Jacquard, Virgin Wool SUNDAZED & OUTSIDE SOCIETY S.O.S. | sundazed.io/sos This jacquard-knit pullover, constructed in stranded alpaca wool, articulates a sophisticated convergence of mid-century textile abstraction, utilitarian heritage, and high-function knitwear engineering. Its two-ply composition—likely incorporating a synthetic blend or lightly felted finish—produces a distinctive bouclé halo, enhancing thermal loft while maintaining stitch clarity. Rendered in a deliberate palette of rust, olive, and ochre (or butterscotch), the staggered grid pattern reads as both architectural and agrarian: a geometric schema informed by Bauhaus austerity and post-war Brutalism, yet softened by the tactile generosity of hand-finished yarnwork and rural tactility. This duality—of sculptural abstraction and agrarian pragmatism—positions the garment as both textile object and functional layer, resistant to nostalgia yet rich in cultural memory. The silhouette, with its boxed volume and relaxed V-neck, speaks in the language of mid-century Greek tailoring filtered through agrarian necessity—blunt, rectilinear, and spatially generous. The knit’s modular structure and near-houndstooth compression function as infrastructure rather than embellishment: a wearable pattern system coded with meaning rather than decoration. Its structural and chromatic restraint evokes Nigel Cabourn’s material excavation of historical silhouettes, though here lineage is not quoted.