A letter from NANCY · founder of NANCY SUSAN MOULTON

Jackson Hole, Wyoming · October 2026

A note from NANCY, on the one warm thing I would not be without in October

A letter from the founder

Five Winters on the Town Square. This Is the Cardigan I Live In From the First Frost to the Last.

Most women have a closet full of sweaters and still reach for one soft thing every evening. This is the one worth having soft enough to live in. Here's how I'd pick it.

Nancy Owner of Nancy Susan Moulton, Jackson Hole October 2026 6 min read

I opened Nancy Susan Moulton five years ago in a little shop just off the Town Square, after years of teaching skiing on the mountain. I had one rule then, and I still have it: if it doesn't work on the fortieth cold evening, it doesn't go on the rail.

It's November, the first snow has come and gone twice, and the house is cold by five o'clock. Every woman who warms up by my stove tells me a version of the same thing. She has plenty of sweaters, but at the end of the day she wants one soft thing to pull around her on the couch — and the one she owns is either thin and scratchy or so bulky she takes it straight back off.

A cozy cardigan is the thing in between. Thick enough to feel warm the second it's on, soft enough that you forget you're wearing it, and open at the front so you can button it on the porch and shrug it loose by the fire. It's the one that ends up on the arm of the couch and stays there all winter.

On the mountain, the first thing I checked on a new student was never their skis. It was their neck and their wrists, because that's where the cold gets in. A cardigan is no different. Get the collar, the cuffs and the weight of the knit right, and you'll wear it from the first frost to the last.

 

a real, thick knit — you can see the stitch and feel the weight. nothing thin or scratchy about it.

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A real knit, thick enough to feel.

The first thing you notice is the weight. This is a proper, substantial knit — soft against the skin, warm the moment it's on, and nothing like the thin fleece that passes for a cardigan at the mall. It softens a little with every wash instead of pilling up and giving up by the second winter.

“It has not made it back to the closet once since it arrived. It lives on the hook by the back door.”

JW

★★★★★

“It has not made it back to the closet once since it arrived. It lives on the hook by the back door.”

Janet W., Columbus, OH

Verified buyer

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A soft collar that wraps your neck.

A deep, soft collar that folds up around the neck when the wind picks up, and sits open and easy indoors. It frames your face instead of swallowing it, and it's the reason this is the cardigan you reach for at the drafty kitchen window at seven in the morning.

“I shove the sleeves up to do the dishes every single evening and the cuffs still sit flat. That is unheard of.”

collar up against the draft, hands in the pockets. warm where it counts, and it looks put together.

PH

★★★★★

“I shove the sleeves up to do the dishes every single evening and the cuffs still sit flat. That is unheard of.”

Patricia H., Boise, ID

Verified buyer

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It adjusts. A pullover does not.

Because it buttons, you're not committing to one temperature for the whole day. Open it to cook, close it on the walk to the mailbox, shrug it off over a chair and pull it back on at dusk. It's the reason a cardigan lives on the hook by the door all season while the pullover stays in the drawer.

“Warm without being stifling. I wore it indoors all day and never once had to take it off because I was too hot.”

EM

★★★★★

“Warm without being stifling. I wore it indoors all day and never once had to take it off because I was too hot.”

Eileen M., Asheville, NC

Verified buyer

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Pockets deep enough to mean it.

Not the little sewn-shut flaps you find on a cheap cardigan — two real, deep pockets, set into the knit so they don't sag. Warm hands on the porch, a phone, a tissue, the reading glasses you'd otherwise lose. On a cold morning it's the detail you end up loving most.

“Two winters in and every button is exactly where it started. I have not needed the spare.”

LT

★★★★★

“Two winters in and every button is exactly where it started. I have not needed the spare.”

Lorraine T., Scranton, PA

Verified buyer

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Buttons and cuffs that keep their shape.

The first thing to fail on a cheap cardigan is never the knit — it's a button, somewhere around the second week of December. Ours are sewn on properly, and the ribbed cuffs hold your wrist: push them up to do the dishes, pull them back over your hands on the porch, and they go right back into shape.

“No stretched-out shoulders, no droop at the hem. It looks the same in March as it did in October.”

DS

★★★★★

“No stretched-out shoulders, no droop at the hem. It looks the same in March as it did in October.”

Donna S., Bangor, ME

Verified buyer

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Warm colours, in a town that wears black all winter.

Walk the Town Square this time of year and it's black parkas and grey fleece. These are soft, warm neutrals — oatmeal, camel, soft grey, moss, berry and slate — the kind of colour that comes right up to your face where it does the most good on a grey morning. Sizes S through 5XL, and the price is the same whether you wear a small or a 5XL. Most women start with one and come back for a second.

“I ordered the 4XL expecting the usual sack. It is cut like the small one, just bigger. I ordered a second.”

RG

★★★★★

“I ordered the 4XL expecting the usual sack. It is cut like the small one, just bigger. I ordered a second.”

Rhonda G., Tulsa, OK

Verified buyer

Ours, against the ones in the back of your drawer

You can find a cardigan anywhere, and most women I know have a drawer full. Here's the difference, laid out plainly.

Most $60 cardigans

A thin fleece that pills and gives up by spring

A flat collar that lets the wind straight in

Little sewn-shut pockets, or none at all

Buttons that pull loose by December

Either clingy or shaped like a tent

Black, grey and oatmeal — stops at XL

Nancy Susan Moulton

A real, thick knit that softens with wear

A soft collar that wraps the neck

Two deep pockets set into the knit

Buttons sewn on to stay on

Room to layer, finished at the hip

Oatmeal, camel, moss and berry · S–5XL, one price

On the mountain the cold gets in at your neck and your wrists. A good cardigan starts there.

Why everything is 60% off this month

This month Nancy Susan Moulton turns five. Same little shop, same wood stove in the corner, same Town Square.

Five years ago this was a girl who loved the snow and couldn't make a living from it, an empty room, and my parents believing in me when the idea still felt too big to say out loud. Today it's my full-time life. So to say thank you, everything in the shop is 60% off for the anniversary. The cardigans are $49.95, down from $150.

I want to be clear about what this is. It's not a closing-down sale — I'm not going anywhere. It's a thank-you to the women who came in out of the cold and kept coming back. Free shipping, 30 days to change your mind, and when a colour sells out in your size, that's it until next season.

5th Anniversary Run · Limited to this month

10%

extra on 2

15%

extra on 3

20%

extra on 4

25%

extra on 5

Stacked discounts apply automatically at checkout and can be combined across collections. At five cardigans that is $44.97 each. We make almost nothing at that price, and that is on purpose.

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Years on the same street

4.8★

Across 1,500+ reviews

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Patterns, S to 5XL

30

Days to change your mind

CR

★★★★★

“Two cardigans on my porch in three days, wrapped in tissue with a note written by hand. I have never had a parcel from anywhere arrive looking like that.”

Carol R., Sarasota, FL

Verified buyer

The reviews say the same things I do, over and over. 4.8 stars across more than 1,500 women. If you are going to add one warm thing to your closet before the clocks change, this is where I would start — while the sizes are still there.

— Nancy

The NANCY Knit Cardigans

★★★★★

4.8 / 5 from 1,500+ reviews

$150

$49.95

Save $100.05

A real, thick knit — soft, warm, and made to last

A soft collar, deep pockets and ribbed cuffs that keep the cold out

Relaxed fit that layers, finished at the hip, S through 5XL

Soft, warm colours — oatmeal, camel, moss and berry

Free shipping & 30-day money-back guarantee

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Nancy

OWNER · NANCY SUSAN MOULTON · JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Nancy taught skiing on the mountain for years before opening Nancy Susan Moulton just off the Town Square in 2021, with her parents’ help and a wood stove in the corner. Half the town still comes in to warm up before they shop. You do not have to live in Wyoming to come in out of the cold.

Shop the cardigans — $49.95 while sizes last