I love both cardigans and jackets. I have a collection of jackets as well as a collection of cardigans. When the weather is cold, I normally wear jackets. However, when the weather is not so cold, I prefer to wear cardigans.
When it's freezing outside, a jacket is must but your summer wardrobe is incomplete without a cardigan.
I tend to think that the cardigans make a look much more blunt or flat if so to say. A jacket is much more structured and comes in many material choices and thus it can be used to pull many looks depending on the clothes its complementing. One can look chic and office ready or even elegant and glamorous for a dinner date or a party.
I use my jacket as my protection for rain and cold. I would wear my jacket as casual like going out or just to roam around the city. If the place that I going would require a more formal type of attire like work or formal events, I'd wear my cardigan. It really depends on the occasion and situation. For me, you can't choose one over the other because the scenario will be the one who will decide to which is better.
I prefer both of them. They are stylish and I always look cool on any of them. Moreover, any of them can do as a warmer for me in cold weathers.
I notice that nowadays the women are wearing the cardigans more than the jackets. The cardigans have become extremely popular and some women have quite a number of them in their wardrobe. It seems that the Jackets have taken a back seat to the cardigans for now.
