The Lighthouse Cardigan IRL

Let me start this post by saying that I had another title for it involving Ash Wednesday and the particular color of the sweater that I am going to review but it crossed my mind that some of my readers might be offended by it, so I decided to choose my readers'feelings over a good pun and censured myself (still, I think it was a great title!)
When I first arrived in the United States Ash Wednesday was actually one of the things that really struck me, I didn't expect the ritual to have such a following in the USA. I find it a great sign of civilization that catholics in the USA wear their cross sign at work and in the streets. I come from a traditionally catholic country and I don't remember people going around with the cross sign of ashes on their forefront (maybe we washed it away out of the Church? But that would be against the purpose of remembering for at least one day a year that "thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return". I should know, since I was raised catholic and was a fervent practictioner until my confirmation, then I started to doubt and the faith never came back).

But I digress. I wanted to talk about white ash, which is, more trivially, one of the two colors the Lighthouse cardigan comes in (the funny thing is, the other color could be appropriately called "ash", while the white one has a slight pink undertone that really doesn't remind me of white ashes). I hadn't planned this post for today but I bought it yesterday and I want to share with you a few IRL pics of this cardigan in case you are considering it. This color is $79.99 in store and currently more expensive than if you buy it on the website with the 30% off promo; however, the advantage of buying it in store is that it is not final sale and before committing for life to it I wanted to try it with a few things that I have at home. Also, I didn't know if I should size up in this sweater or buy my regular size, as in real life it appears much shorter than on the model. In the end I bought my regular size XS, because it was more proportioned on my short figure but if you are taller you can size up. The sleeves in the XS are a little bit tight but I don't think that I am going to wear this one over a long-sleeve shirt anyway.

I was drawn to this cardigan because I have very few summer cardigans in the same weight and I thought that it would be a good one to throw on in the morning in our early summer, when the air is still crisp, and look put together. In particular, I though it would be a good one to wear with dresses and skirts. This is how it looks with the bell cotton skirt:

By the way, my folded bow tank (or whatever it was called last year) is exactly the same color of the skirt (faded black with black grosgrain belt for the skirt and same faded black with black trim and bows for the tank. I love when the colors match!):

But the real test for the cardigan was my Carly ruffled dress, that I wore very little last year because it is a tough one to wear with a topper (jacket or cardigan) and I find it a little bit too heavy to wear when it is really warm and could be worn alone.
The problem with this dress is that the ruffles and sleeves add bulk and will show through the fabric if the cardigan is not chunky enough. I tried almost everything in my closet and besides an old Theory open cardigan that I can only wear belted, nothing works.
This one isn't perfection (the sleeves still show through the cardigan) but I think that it's good enough. The other color, if a match would work even better because darker but I like the white one better in general:

Belted it looks more stylish but I can also throw it on unbelted if I am late (which is 99% of the time):

The only problem with the sweater is that it sheds off white lints and that can be a nightmare, especially if you wear it with darker color like in these pics. However, I hope that that will end after the first wash (finger crossed).

Are you a fan of this sweater?

PS
I am sorry if I am trying really hard to make my posts difficult to read with my typos but I can't find the spell check in the new version of Blogger!