Good call, we used to stock Johnstone Cashmere and they are lovely, we've moved over to an Italian brand and they're not as nice.

They still trade!

The collection doesn't look to exciting mind... I was trying to find a nice blue shawl collar if anyone knows of any leads?

Just treated myself to a Johnstone cashmere v-neck, inspired by a long-delayed viewing of 'Funny Face'.

As The Guv'Nor - and Kay Thompson - had it, 'Think Pink'.

Barrie for House of Bruar. Three ply Todd and Duncan yarn from Scotland.

V neck. I don’t like cashmere in a crew neck. Garnet red.

Would buy dark amethyst but out of stock for long periods. I don’t care for many of the other colours.

95% of my jumpers are made-in-Scotland from cashmere. I like cashmere so much that it is difficult to wear normal wool...wool makes me feel like l am roughing it. I only buy normal wool when l have no other choice. The good cashmere is very expensive, but it is worth it. If a man is going to do knitwear he must do it properly and wear cashmere.

Cashmere jumpers are like socks, they can't be skimped on. Gotta get cashmere jumpers that are beefy and made from cashmere that does not pill much, and that costs a lot of money.

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Shooey is even more spot on about socks: especially for the older male.  When indifferently made...  ouch...  Wearing badly constructed socks is as annoying as someone not getting your haircut quite right or that grease spot on your Oxford shirt.

Navy blue is, arguably, the Ivy colour par excellence, especially when it comes to cords, polo shirts, knitwear, knitted ties and possibly - if you can bear to have such an item on your back in 2022 - the G9 and G4.  Socks, too - mustn't forget socks. 
But mustard - mustard is good. 
Now yellow - once worn in this quarter then disdained - is somewhat back in favour with me.  I used to wear a rather startling yellow Pringle sweater circa 2006, then bought a yellow Brooks cardigan (also quite startling).  Then I entered discussions with Pad Nahman (via e-mail) on colour - specifically in knitwear - and rather followed his lead for a while.  So navy, charcoal, various shades of dark green and maroon/burgundy predominated.  Many colours remain a no-no in knitwear (as well as in other items) but a Sam Fisher in mustard I would wear very gladly with an old pair of 501s and probably desert boots during early spring.

Off-white McGeorge on this morning: v-neck over a USA-made B.D.Baggie shirt.  I fancy I heard the oldd wolf-whistle.  It may not have been directed at me of course. 
Now - and I would like to hear our Shooey on this subject - Alan Paine (very, very 'vintage', I assure you), Brooks, McGeorge and something I've forgotten the name of but is Scottish do not feel as gorgeously luxurious - even 'femmy' as Frosty might have had it - as Johnstone Of Elgin.  I snagged another of these on Ebay last evening for under £30 with modest postage.  Maroon v-neck.  Said by the seller to be for a lady but sized L.  If it doesn't work out, well, I shall offer it to a male with more pronounced moobs than I.