A twinset is the combination of a short-sleeved pullover with a matching cardigan. They were very fashionable between the late 1940s and the early 1960s.
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| Stitchcraft, October 1945 |
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| Wolsey, 1948 |
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| Stitchcraft, December 1950 |
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| David Jones catalogue, Winter 1951 |
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| Stitchcraft, October 1953 |
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| Lyle and Scott, 1957 |
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| Stitchcraft, August 1960 |
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| Braemar, 1960 |
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| Hogg of Hawick, 1961 |
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| Ballantyne, 1963 | |
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Like so many things, the twinset was swept away by the "youthquake" of the mid- to late sixties. Indeed the phrase, "twinset and pearls" became synonymous for a certain kind of middle-class, middle-aged conservatism—the very reverse of trendy!
In recent years, however, it has been making a comeback...
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