Welcome to Cardigan Season: 29 Under-$150, Light-and-Easy Styles I'm Shopping

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It was a long road, but we've made it: Welcome to the official start of cardi season. Before you start thinking about the thick, chunky cardigans everyone typically gravitates toward at the start of fall, this here is a bit different. We're finally at the point in spring when the temperature varies drastically between the time you leave the house and the time the sun goes down. Basically, the weather is indecisive AF, so that's where a lightweight cardigan comes in. Consider it akin to a summer jacket—appropriate for every stage of wacky spring weather that comes your way. 

Lately, thinner cardigans have been making big waves on our feeds, where we've noticed them styled several different ways—whether draped over the shoulders, paired in a matching set, or (our favorite way) simply worn buttoned up as a top. There's plenty of versatility with this piece, which is why it's become such an essential as I beef up my spring wardrobe. Maybe you're looking to update your closet with a timeless basic or you just want to celebrate the arrival of warmer weather. Either way, scroll below to shop the 29 lightweight cardigans that get the fashion-editor seal of approval. 

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Stayed tuned for I'm a Fashion Editor, and These Are the 8 Spring Outfits I Dream About Daily.

Fashion Market Editor

Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor for Who What Wear, focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.