Hideous Holiday Sweaters

Every fashion trend has it’s own life cycle, and the life cycle for those hideous holiday sweaters ended sometime in the last millennium, when they all were purchased. Why do people insist in dragging them out every year?!? Burn them! Unless…..you are taking part in a Hideous Holiday Sweater contest.

When I got to work yesterday, there was a group having a work holiday party in the room next to the lounge. I glanced in the room, to see more of those hideous sweaters than I had ever seen in one place. Most of them were red or green and were waaaaaaay too busy with every holiday decoration you can think of. (What a waste of perfectly good yarn.) Some had Christmas trees knitted into the design, others had snowmen, another had ornaments, some were just too busy to determine what the theme was, and still others had actual lights on them. That actually lit up! And some were even more obnoxious in that the lights blinked on and off.

Another party the day before, all posed for pictures wearing ridiculous hats…..some of the hats looked like ladybugs sitting on their heads. I fail to see the connection between lady bugs and Christmas.

However, there is one holiday fashion trend that I find amusing, and that is the reindeer antlers on a headband. You can’t help but crack up when you see a group of smartly dressed folks, (all 65 and older) and the old bald dudes are sporting the reindeer antlers.

Of course, if you are wearing a hideous holiday sweater AND the reindeer antlers, well, that’s just overkill. Most people will be blinded by the gaudiness of the sweaters and will never even notice the antlers.

Perhaps someone should start a sweater museum, so people of future generations can wander through, gaze at the sweaters and ask themselves, “What were they thinking?”