Ugly Christmas sweater contest

[Monimania]

I saw pictures on Flicr that someone had an ugly sweater party where everyone had to come in and ugly sweater

[eddieb]

http://family.webshots.com/album/556623079dZwAFf

here's a ugly sweater contest a whole family did together!

[genuineimitation]

i love those photos! i wish my family had that sense of humor about our christmas reunion!

if you took all the ugly christmas sweaters and piled them end to end.. how many times would the line circle the globe??!

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Eddie, that site is charming in a terrifying sort of way, lol. I love the FFF of it all!

Those sweaters look like ones you could buy on the shopping stations like QVC and HSN, The Quacker Factory is one brand. I used to wonder who would wear something like that (besides members of my own family, of course, lol, but not quite so, um Blatant   , perhaps?) Now I know.

A little OT from the original idea of this post, but speaking of shopping stations, I have to tell somebody this or I shall BURST:  Do you all know what I found the other day in a thrift: (sounds of trumpets and violins, please)--

A GENUINE SHELL KEPLER LACY AFTERNOON JUMPSUIT!!  Taaaaaa-Daaaaa!  In burnt orange (no, I didn't buy it, lol)

Oooooooooooooooooooooo, the horror of it all.  Complete with elasticized waist, and ribbons and pins and things on the bosoms. Sequins. Stars. Doodads. Heegaws. Thingabobs. In amazing technicolor Polyester.  Save me, Lord. I am innocent. Make me push a boulder up a never-ending hill with my forehead for the rest of eternity, but please please please, let me not ever see one of those things again. 

Ahhhhh, the humanity.

I promise, Lord, I will eat my vegetables, join the Clean Plate club, and never flip anybody the bird again after they cut me off and almost kill me, if you Spare Me from another sighting of this apparel travesty.

Amen,
SeSo

[Other People s Junk]

Those sweaters look like ones you could buy on the shopping stations like QVC and HSN, The Quacker Factory is one brand. I used to wonder who would wear something like that (besides members of my own family, of course, lol, but not quite so, um Blatant   , perhaps?) Now I know.

   I always wonder just WHO is buying all that stuff from Quacker Factory on QVC...  the people selling it always go on about how cute it is and you know they really can't actually think that!!

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Ooh... them's is some UG-LEE sweaters.

I can see it being a hugely funny event for a family holiday, though. But bring sunglasses.

[SecondhandSophisticate]

OTJ, you and me both! Those sweaters seem to sell like crazy, at all times of the year, and yet I've never met anybody who actually owns one. It's surrealistic!

Watching those shopping stations is really an exercise in inclusion/exclusion.  If you want to be "part of the club", you must like what everybody else is buying, like Quacker Factory sweaters, for example or Shell Kepler or whatever (inclusion).

If what's being shown gives you hives and you'd rather shove bamboo stalks in your belly button than buy the object' de' passion un du moment, you can't possibly be a member (exclusion) of the mass shopping consciousness.

Of course, you could always change the station, lol. But still, they are fascinating to watch from a sociolgoical perspective, of course

[Other People s Junk]

Of course, you could always change the station, lol. But still, they are fascinating to watch from a sociolgoical perspective, of course

 Sometimes it is so horrific that you just can't change the station!  At least not for a few minutes.  It's so bad you can't help but look!   

[Femme1]

Today at my favorite thrift shop, I bought a really ugly Christmas sweater. On purpose. It has a green and red holly wreath AND a fuzzy white bunny on it. (When did bunnies start being a Christmas animal??) My daughter is bringing her new girlfriend home for the holidays this year and I'm going to wrap it up for the GF as if it's a real present. We'll see how she reacts. 

She's a teacher and since I see teachers wearing seasonal sweaters all the time, I figure it's time she gets one!

[eddieb]

Today at my favorite thrift shop, I bought a really ugly Christmas sweater. On purpose. It has a green and red holly wreath AND a fuzzy white bunny on it. (When did bunnies start being a Christmas animal??) My daughter is bringing her new girlfriend home for the holidays this year and I'm going to wrap it up for the GF as if it's a real present. We'll see how she reacts. 

She's a teacher and since I see teachers wearing seasonal sweaters all the time, I figure it's time she gets one!

what a great gag! be sure to photograph the look on her face as well as take a picture of her wearing it... i'd LOVE to see that

[oceangurl]

Oh Seso your soooo funny with your post about the Shell Kepler Jumpsuit, must have the big 80's hair to go with it though and the gold shoes with big rhinestones on them, lol!

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Oh Seso your soooo funny with your post about the Shell Kepler Jumpsuit, must have the big 80's hair to go with it though and the gold shoes with big rhinestones on them, lol!

Oceangurl, I am so glad you get/like my humor!      It was a travestry of taste!  Though it seems that stuff sells on eBay. Maybe the kids in HS now are having an 80s revival. Debbie Gibson, anyone?

PS: (I had gold shoes in the 80s--flats, Joan and Davids. I got 'em in a thrift, or I never would have spent $$)  I did NOT have big hair, though with all the shoulder pads in my clothes--dress, blazer, winter coat-- I would suggest to you that I looked like the daughter/wife/mistress/main squeeze of the Michelin Man. 

It's the one thing I rarely thrift here in CFL--clothes. It's still the 90s here, lol, and the styles are either for the "newly-wed or the nearly-dead", aka slutwear or dowager.  Which is fine if you're 15 or in the "I don't give a damn how I look" phase of life.  But not for me. 

BTW, aren't you in South Florida?   

Merry Thriftmas,
SeSo (proud member of the AARP)

[oceangurl]

Seso you crack me up! I still have the gold, silver flats in my closet, I think "Annies" makes them? I also have the black (are you ready?) VELVET flats with the traditional green and red christmas wreath on them with the black (are you ready? ) stirrup pants that I used to wear with them with some kind of christmas sweater, and I DID have the BIG overpermed hair for years, not anymore, just flat and natural. I guess I tried to overcompensate my height and ethenticity being as Iam Italian/Portuguese girl and standing 4 feet ll inches, lol! And yes I am 48 yrs old? young? and live in Lady Lake (central florida) . I think I saw you or somebody post about Renningers here in Tavares or Mt. Dora, anyhow I live about l hour from that, been there many times. Happy New Year and keep making me laugh, you rock!
P.S. I really need to clean out my 3 closets after this post I reviewed and read how outdated some of my things are, funny thing is I have cleaned them out many times (only to reload) and have always thought in the back of my 80's mind that I will wear those things again, ummmm maybe not? Hopefully I will be cured....!

[dukek9]

eddieb, thanks for the link for the ugly sweater xontest.  Great fun.

Since famiy and friends are scattered all over the world, photos are needed.  But often people look rather stilted or uncomfortable and I think that having a fun, silly activity like this, may make the photo taking a lot easier. So I;m goign to try it.  My family and friedns already know I am nuts, so they will probably indulge me!

Dee