A cornucopia of holiday themed sweaters, all being pitched as a cool 80s retro look.
Gosh, I'm feeling nostaligic. I can just imagine Princess Di wearing one of these beauties. But dowdy? Definitely. Unless you have any Gen Y friends who are throwing one of those ironic holiday-sweater-themed cocktail parties, in which case, head to your local thrift shop and pick one up.
Otherwise, enjoy these for what they are: a walk through the not-so-distant past when people celebrated Christmas by dressing up as a roll of wrapping paper.
Wait a minute. The Christmas light just went on over my head! These sweaters really do look like wrapping paper. And if you have a large, irregularly-sized gift to wrap, what could be more environmentally-friendly than to wrap it in one of them? And just think--this would be the gift that keeps on giving. You could use them year after year after year--how green is that? Just think about how many holiday sweaters you'd be keeping out of the landfills.
Martha Stewart is green with envy right this minute. And she's into recycling, so watch for this idea next year in Martha Stewart Living magazine.
Really, I am brilliant. Just think--in a pinch, in case of a power outage, you could actually wear them to keep warm.
While the electricity is out, of course. Promise me that you'll put them back in the gift-wrap supplies closet as soon as the lights come back on.
8 comments:
As a Children's Librarian, I'm required to own at least one Christmas sweater. I own two. But they were purchased by my mother, who has decent taste. I plan to wear them most of next week as I seem to have a work related/holiday party every single day.
But I like your idea about gift wrap.
xo,
SL
Those look like the sort of thing my mother-in-law would give me.
My stepmother still wears that kind of sweater.
If I had to pick one of them, LOL, I'd go with the first one. The dots are rather zippy!
I admit to having a Christmas sweater in the late 80's or early 90's, and it had ice skaters and silver buttons. I'm actually still a fan of Scandinavian wool sweaters or mens' snowflake ski sweaters!
On another note... I'm sick of ebay. I haven't bought anything there in ages!
ACK!
My mother actually owned (owns? please dear God do not let her wear it this Christmas) that 2nd one. It wasn't just ugly, it was fugly. Butt-ugly. And it made my very thin mother look chubby.
Brilliant, Miss buxom!
Ooooo Oooooo! I'm pretty sure I had the third one from the top! Yeah, I was HOT in the 80's.
I bought my mother a Christmas sweater back in 1994. It is light pink with a Father Christmas, not a jolly Santa, in burgundy robe on it. I like to flatter myself that I bought the one tasteful Christmas sweater out there.
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