Moving forward, they picked up some woolen overcoats, jackets, trousers for men and women, more wool coats, and jackets. They also got some silk-padded jackets, machine-knit acrylic sweaters, and wool-blend sweaters—some for layering and some to be worn on their own.
Machine-knit sweaters were bestsellers in department stores back then. They were uniform, tight, and finely woven, looking leagues better than anything knit by hand.
Lin Lan wasn't satisfied with the color or material of the sweaters from the first few stalls they had visited. She found the colors too monotonous.
They were almost all purple, red, black, white, or cream, and she felt they weren't soft or warm enough.
The three of them walked up to a stall selling sweaters and noticed that while the others were packed with people, this one only had two or three customers buying stock.
