“Really lovely, but..”

“Every Cullen item I own is lovely in some way. But, some more than others. I love the baby blue I bought in this sweater and it's very comfortable. It looks stylish, too, and is plenty warm. In fact, it is too warm for me to wear over anything other than a cami. I would love it a great deal more, though, if it had full length sleeves, as the other reviewer also wrote. I think this was a bad design decision; sweaters are not particularly useful with "short" sleeves. I have found it difficult to find a good time to wear it since it IS quite warm, but then the lower part of my arm is exposed. It isn't really constructed to have something long sleeved hanging out from underneath it; it's too dressy for that. I like it enough that I kept it even though I've yet to wear it in a month plenty cool enough to have done so. It is otherwise so lovely and the price was quite lovely, too, that I can't bring myself to return it. I figure that there will be just the right weather/occasion to wear it sometime before I die and that I'll be glad I kept it. This isn't exactly a rousing rush out to buy it review and I feel badly about it because it IS pretty. Also, the snaps are quite heavy and it needs to be put on/off over the head as though it's a crew neck sweater, not a cardigan. I've only tried it on for size, but my opinion is that the snaps are too heavy for the knit and that the pull required to unsnap it would ultimately rip the sweater apart. The snaps would also pull down the sides of the sweater unattractively because of their weight. It's more of a jacket one never unfastens. I feel like I'm not doing justice to this garment. If it were ugly or useless, I'd return it. It's truly quite pretty, just not particularly versatile.”