The ugly Christmas sweater
- 28 December 2010 18:5486688Apparently the ugly Christmas sweater is all the rage this year and as far as buyers are concerned, the uglier the better. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece on the heinous phenomenon and reported that Google searches for "ugly Christmas sweaters" were up 30% from last year. What's even more shocking is the amount someone's willing to pay for one. This year an ugly reindeer sweater sold for $282.59 on eBay, which broke last year's record of $200!
Seriously!?
I can recall those err... interesting types of sweater that Nanny/Auntie knitted that I was forced to wear on Christmas day when I was six or seven. I started rebelling around eight!!
- 29 December 2010 07:5186729Just shows Jeane that people will buy anything and have so much more money than sense.
Roger - 29 December 2010 09:0686742Yes this used to be the thing back in the seventies and eighties..even the ads for beer used to show guys in the pub on Boxing Day wearing awful sweaters bought by their grandma or worse still wearing ones knitted by your grandma...oooh the horror of it all!
Not a tradition worth reviving..anyway we're all much cooler now in our shell suits!
email: dover7@msn.com - 29 December 2010 10:1286748I remember my Nan always wanted to knit a sweater for Val Doonican (sp) - anyone recall him and his interesting jumper collection?!
- 29 December 2010 10:4186755Yeah one the girls at work asked me to get one for her son, I got a lucky bargain on Ebay for her - it was not the reindeer one though LOL
- 29 December 2010 13:4586768who could forget val doonican and his knitwear?
noel edmonds seems to be running him close nowadays. - 29 December 2010 19:1586800What about the stripey sweaters on Time Team ??---------------------------------------------------
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