Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. While scrolling the internet for the perfect knit kerchief — and wincing at the £165 price tag on a small triangle of red ...

You won’t mind if I knit, I say, in cafes, on park benches and sofas and in other people’s cars, the way I imagine 50 years ago someone might have said, You won’t mind if I smoke. No, of course, my ...