The 22 Most Influential and Iconic Sweaters in Film and TV

The bombshell's light purple cable knit and black tights look while singing the song "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" continues to be one of her most memorable ever.

The legendary actor's classic stripes paired perfectly with a silk scarf in the 1955 film. 

The actress's wardrobe in this 1967 film, in which she played one half of the infamous killer couple, remains one of the all-time best.

Just looking at Fred Rogers' signature cardigan makes us smile.

Jinkies! That chunky orange turtleneck sweater is synonymous with solving mysteries, but there's no mystery when it comes to this look — Velma knew what color worked for her and stuck to it. 

Tell me more, tell me more about how much you love Sandy's yellow cardigan — which matched her skirt and her blonde hair! — in the 1978 musical.

If you didn't think cardigans could be badass, let us present the scene of Bassett lighting a car on fire in an act of revenge against her cheating husband. The defense rests.

There's so much to love about the complementary sweaters that Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal wear in the beloved rom-com. Who could blame Sally for falling for Harry when he rocks such a good chunky knit?

Horizontal stripes terrify us to this day thanks to Freddy Krueger's striped sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street.

What a feeling! The asymmetrical gray sweatshirt that Jennifer Beals wore in Flashdance perfectly represents all things '80s.

Barrymore made her big comeback in 1996's Scream — and famously lasted all of 12 minutes on screen. No matter, this sweater still made an impact! So much so that Barrymore wore it again for a spoof on the film in October 2020. 

We love anything Colin Firth wears, but his character Mark Darcy's reindeer sweater lives in our heads rent-free. 

These sweaters from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made us wish that we went to Hogwarts and got homemade crewnecks from Mrs. Weasley for Christmas. 

Sure, it made the wearer look like they had randomly placed sweat stains — but it was also the clue that got everybody talking about who Rachel's baby daddy was. 

The entirety of Corey Mason's (played by Liv Tyler) outfit here — from the plaid miniskirt to the cropped sweater — is making a comeback. And for good reason! 

The Dude's patterned sweater from the 1998 comedy is so iconic, even Aaron Rodgers wore it. 

As Spongebob Squarepants once said, "The best time to wear a striped sweater is all the time."

On Wednesdays, we're supposed to wear pink, but we'd rather wear this disguise that Damian (Daniel Franzese) wore to shout, "She doesn't even go here!" in 2004's Mean Girls. 

Love Actually has good and bad romances and good and bad "jumpers," but this one worn by Andrew Lincoln is probably the worst offender. 

The sweater (worn by Anne Hathaway) is — say it with us — "not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean." 

We know he's supposed to be a villain in this movie, but we're convinced there's not a sweater in the world that Michael B. Jordan couldn't make look great. 

This sweater and Chris Evans have something in common: They're both made of boyfriend material. The fisherman style he wore as Ransom is so great that it went viral — and the star got a matching one for his dog!