Do you golf?
A sweater vest keeps the body heat in on a chilly morning and lets you swing freely.
I've got vests made from sheepskin as well as waterproof ones for golf, fishing and hunting.
The answer to your snarky question is not just yes, but hell yes.
Because you don't feel comfortable with your manhood don't denigrate some one that wears a vest {regardless of the material}.
You make me want to puke.
I am wearing a vest, but its goose down OD green thing with huge pockets.
I never wear a sweater vest with a dainty crest
A sweater vest is okay if it serves some special purpose for golf or fishing or whatever. But would you wear one just to wear one? It’s way too Ned Flanders.
It makes me think of Sean Hannity's hilarious aversion to men wearing Ugg boots. Hannity is an Easterner. Come to California on the coast and see manly gnarled surfers, buff beach bums, and competitive swimmers in those Uggs. Believe me, they're 100 percent MEN to make any red-blooded American girl's heart go "My stars! *sigh*"
But I think I understand and sympathize with Hannity's take. I know my revulsion at seeing men wearing leather penny loafers with no socks *shudder* is a provincial thing, a California thing (didn't figure it out until I was in my late 30s, either -- I thought it was "dork," when really, it was just East Coast cool), because to me and most native Californias I grew up with, that "look" is, I expect, as shocking and ghastly to contemplate and "real men" in Ugg boots is for Sean!