Colour should be a pleasure, not a commitment you have to live with all day!

Just imagine a calm grey sweater with bands of yellow, red, teal and rose ringing the shoulders and the cuffs — colour in exactly the right dose. Now stop imagining, because that is the whole idea behind this knit.

• Colour Where It Counts
  The rainbow bands sit at the yoke and the wrists while the body stays a quiet grey. You get the lift of colour with none of the difficulty of wearing it head to toe.
• Matching Cuff Bands
  The same stripes reappear on the lower sleeve, so the sweater still looks deliberate when you push the sleeves up to the elbow.
• Soft Wide Neckline
  The neck sits wide and slightly off the shoulder, which is a gentler, more relaxed line than a close round neck and shows off the colour work.
• Light But Warm
  A fine, lofty knit that keeps heat in without adding bulk under a coat or a jacket.
• Easy Grey Base
  Heathered grey goes with every pair of jeans and every coat you own, which makes this one of the simplest things in the closet to wear.

If you have bought something colourful before and then found yourself never quite in the mood for it, this measured version solves that problem. The grey does the work, the colour does the smiling, and it will come out of the drawer far more often than any bolder sweater ever did.