Most cream turtlenecks yellow after two washes. The color dulls. The collar stretches. You stop wearing them without knowing why.
Run this against your wrist. You will know immediately this is not the cashmere you have bought before. This turtleneck took three days to knit.
The cream is the fiber's own color — undyed, unbleached, unchanged by washing. It is the kind of thing that becomes more yours with time.
Kamala has been working with natural colors for twenty-two years. She can identify a dye plant by smell alone.
She made herself one in this shade. She wears it to every important meeting.
It is a small thing. Until it is yours.