A letter from NANCY · founder of NANCY SUSAN MOULTON

Jackson Hole, Wyoming · November 2026

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

A letter from the founder

Five years of keeping women warm. The cardigan is the one I'd give you first.

A whole shelf of them, all knit to the same rules. If you're only going to add one warm thing to your closet this autumn, I'd make it a cardigan — and I'll tell you exactly why.

Nancy Owner of Nancy Susan Moulton, Jackson Hole November 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 it hasn't changed since: if it doesn't work on the fortieth cold morning, it doesn't go on the rail.

But there's a second thing I've learned in five years of dressing women our age, and it has nothing to do with wool.

Somewhere after fifty, a woman stops feeling seen. Not because she changed — because the world quietly stopped looking.

I watch it happen at the counter. She reaches for the grey, the navy, the shapeless safe thing, and when I hold up a cardigan with real colour and pattern knitted into it, she says, "Oh, I couldn't. Not at my age." And I want to take her hand and tell her the truth: the reason nobody's told you that you look lovely in a while isn't you. It's that we've all been handed nothing worth a second glance.

The women I talk into the cardigan come back changed. Not because a cardigan fixes anything — it doesn't. But somebody stopped them at the market to ask about it, and for the first time in a long while, they felt seen again. That's the whole reason I do this.

It's October, and the mornings have already turned. And here's the thing about this stretch of the year: it's cold, then warm, then cold again, four times between breakfast and the evening news. A pullover is a decision you make once at seven in the morning and live with. A cardigan is one you can change your mind about all day long.

That's why, of everything on our shelves, the cardigan is the one I'd put in your hands first. Here are six things I'd tell you about ours, in the order I'd point them out.

1

A cardigan adjusts. A pullover does not.

Open at the kitchen table, buttoned on the porch, off over the back of a chair by two o'clock and back on at dusk. You're not committing to one temperature for the whole day. It's the reason a cardigan ends up on the hook by the door and stays there all season, while the pullover stays in the drawer.

“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

2

Sleeves that are properly finished

The cuff is knitted in, not cut and hemmed, so there is no raw edge to fray and nothing to unravel at the wrist. It matters more on a cardigan than on anything else you own, because a cardigan gets pushed up your forearms twenty times a day.

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

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

3

Real wool that holds the heat

A brushed wool blend, knit densely enough to stand on a porch in the wind. Acrylic feels warm in a heated shop and turns clammy on the walk to the car, because it has nowhere to put the moisture. Wool moves it. That is the whole trick.

“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

4

Buttons that do not give up

The first thing to fail on a cheap cardigan is never the knit. It is a button, somewhere around the second week of December. Ours are real wood, sewn on with a shank so the buttonhole has somewhere to sit, and there is a spare stitched inside the hem.

“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

5

It keeps its shape on the hook

A cardigan spends its life hanging, not folded, and cheap ones grow shoulders like a coat hanger within a month. Deep two-by-two ribbing at the cuff and hem and a proper set shoulder are what stop that. Ours hangs by the door all season and still closes the way it did in October.

“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

6

Thirty-seven of them, S through 5XL, one price

Not one cardigan in seven colours. Thirty-seven patterns, each with its own yoke, and the chart re-worked for every size so the colourwork lands where it should across the chest. Nothing costs more at 3XL than it does at Small.

“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

Our cardigans, against the ones you have been buying

You can find a cardigan for sixty dollars almost anywhere, and most women I know have two of them in a drawer. I have bought a great many myself over the years, to see what we were up against. Here is the difference, laid out plainly.

Most $60 cardigans

A flat pattern printed on, that cracks and fades

Acrylic, sold to you as wool

A button pulls loose by December

Grows hanger shoulders within a month

Cuffs stretch and never come back

Stops at XL, then an apology

Nancy Susan Moulton

Real colour knitted into the wool

Real wool knit that holds the heat in

Wood buttons sewn with a shank, plus a spare

Keeps its shape hanging by the door

Deep ribbing that still grips next winter

Every colourway, S through 5XL, one price

A cardigan is the only warm thing you can change your mind about halfway through the day. That's the whole reason it's the one I'd give you first.

Why the cardigans are 60% OFF this month

This month Nancy Susan Moulton turns thirty-five. Same street, same two sisters, same table in the back room where we still wrap every parcel by hand.

To mark it we did something we have never done: we put the whole cardigan shelf — all thirty-seven of them — on one anniversary run at close to what they cost us to knit. One run. Not a season, not a rolling sale.

When a pattern sells out of your size, that is the end of that one. The cardigans go back to $125.00, and the anniversary does not come round again.

5th Anniversary Run · Limited to this month

5

Years on the same street

4.8★

Across 1,500+ reviews

37

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

$125

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Real colour knitted into the wool — not printed on

Real wool that holds the heat in, and softens with every wash

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Many colourways · S to 5XL · one price

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OWNER · NANCY & SUSAN · JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING

Nancy taught skiing on the mountain for years before opening Nancy & Susan 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.

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