Ten Things You Might Not Know About Sweaters-- Part 2: Good Old Charlie Brown, Mandigans and Dust Storms

3.  Some people describe "Peanuts" character CHARLIE BROWN'S's zigzag garment as a sweater and others call it a shirt.  In any case that's not what he was wearing when the comic strip debuted in 1950.  "For the first two weeks of the strip, he wore a plain white T-shirt," cartoonist Charles Schulz recalled.  "But then I realized the strip needed more color, so i drew a sweater."

4.  A cardigan worn by a man is sometimes called a MANDIGAN.

5.  The inexpensive cashmere sweater you get for a steal cost more than you think.  The world's insatiable appetite for the famously soft garments led to overgrazing on the Alashan grasslands in China which in turn was a major factor in the increase of DUST STORMS so vast they crossed the Pacific Ocean and polluted the air in the United States.

--GreGen