I usually think of jumpers as those things I was forced to wear until I was old enough to tell my mom to go away because I was picking out my own clothes (in other words, age 3).

But apparently the jumper is not just for kids. As Bill Cunningham notes in Sunday's New York Times style section, the cooler weather suddenly means that ladies of all ages are eschewing the undersized top for a jumper ... on the streets of Manhattan, anyway.

While I'm willing to allow the return of the jumper, I shudder to think what this might lead to. I mean, what's next? The security blanket as this fall's hottest accessory?