https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:52:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1872159 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:01:31 +0000 Anonymous 1872159@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah, the Christmas Tabasco ties! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871846 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 23:44:05 +0000 The Cat 1871846@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sorry, Bridgie, I have nothing exciting to report, as I have seen no ugly sweaters this year.</p> <p>Just want to say that I am thinking of you. I remember that you had a difficult time some months ago, and also that you hoped to go somewhere in the end of December. So I wonder how your days are now. It's good to see that you are still active here and have kept your sense of humour. Wishing you all the best. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871845 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 23:29:12 +0000 Cee 1871845@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, Bridgie... There's a couple of ensembles Kate McKinnon's character wears in Office Christmas Party I could definately rock ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871697 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 04:54:20 +0000 bridgie 1871697@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cee, I feel very badly for you, that you can't wear a sweater because it is too hot.&nbsp; lol</p> <p>Fashiontern,&nbsp; you are right.&nbsp; I love your wrapping paper.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871441 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 04:57:31 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1871441@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The ball gowns have swamped the “ugly” sweaters, but I thought you might get a little smile out of my wrapping paper, in the style of those Norwegian sweaters. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871045 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 04:55:40 +0000 Cee 1871045@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I can't say I own any ugly sweaters/jumpers and as it's summer here, no one is wearing one of any kind ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871036 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 04:11:05 +0000 bridgie 1871036@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Barbara Diane, Thanks.&nbsp; I chuckled at your comment.&nbsp; I would have liked seeing both the sweaters, but especially the thrifted one. I have a feeling you found it very amusing or interesting.</p> <p>Fashiontern and Chris, thank you.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1871034 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 04:03:01 +0000 bridgie 1871034@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>anne, Vildy, Christina , Aurore, Mainelady&nbsp; Thank you.</p> <p>anne,&nbsp; "the uglies " you sent are so cute.&nbsp; I want a kangaroo and a cockatoo sweater or rashie.&nbsp; Maybe, next year.&nbsp; rachylou seems intrigued with them, also. :)</p> <p>Vildy, I think you are exactly right. :)</p> <p>Christina, I agree that you can wear the grey and white a little longer. Nice that you have three Holiday and beyond sweaters. :)</p> <p>Aurore, I didn't know if you French ladies wore the ugly sweater or not.&nbsp; I am glad you found a cute one.&nbsp; Enjoy it. :)</p> <p>Mainelady, I bet that was a fun party today!&nbsp; Those are some cute outfits you have.&nbsp; That was a good idea to change during recesses!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870475 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:44:16 +0000 rachylou 1870475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok. The Christmas rashie is Hilarious! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870455 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:34:34 +0000 Chris987 1870455@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bridgie, sorry I didn't see your comment sooner! Yes we do like similar things, I check out your finds fairly often! You live in a much warmer place than I do.....I've already worn the nutmeg coat several times and had to put it away when&nbsp;we moved on to temperatures too cold for it. Looking forward to seeing you wear it. I have some photos to post soon. </p> <p>Years ago I used to make plum pudding (an English thing I believe) for Christmas dinner every year. It was full of dried fruit, flour/sugar, spices, and suet as a binding agent. It was like what we call fruit cake now but was totally delicious, especially when served with hard sauce which us butter with a bunch of sugar added. You can keep it around for a few weeks and keep pouring randy or whiskey or rum over it but it's not required. Everyone loved it. Similar idea to store bought fruitcake but better tasting, at least better than any store bought one I ever tasted. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870449 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:14:48 +0000 Mainelady 1870449@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, just one day. Perhaps I should consider outfit changes during recesses? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870443 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:53:02 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1870443@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mainelady, just one day? Those all deserve to be worn! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870441 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:40:55 +0000 Barbara Diane 1870441@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My son's fiancé won an ugly sweater contest with a Thrifted sweater that still smelled old. If I'd known I'd be reporting about it here Id've paid more attention to the details. My son wore a more subtle attractive one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870432 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:12:04 +0000 Mainelady 1870432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As Glory said, some schools have a sweater day. Ours does. In fact, tomorrow is our annual Surprise the Students Seasonal Sweater Day. We all do or best to surprise and impress our little learners with our holiday fashion and flair. The kids LOVE it and our staff has a pretty good time, too.<br /> I have 3 Seasonal sweaters to choose from :<br /> Let It Snow ( a sweatshirt enhanced with the help of a google eye, Pom poms, a feather boa and a hot glue gun), Jingle All the Way (simple Santa dress with a jingle bell statement necklace, oh and jingle bell socks) and Sweets for Santa (25 years old and ready for retirement). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870385 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:52:38 +0000 Aurore 1870385@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here in France the "ugly" Christmas sweater&nbsp; "trend" did not really exist a few years ago, but it's slowly coming. I find it rather funny and ever own one (that I actually find cute)!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870376 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:09:25 +0000 Christina F. 1870376@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>bridgie</b> I decided I may as well keep them. Christmas reindeer can be part of my signature style... I'll just pack away two of them for sotrage after the holidays, and remember that I have them. I started a holiday capsule in my finds so I will remember next year.</p> <p>The grey and white one I think I can get away with later in the winter. It will stay in my rotation for a bit. </p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870373 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:03:14 +0000 Vildy 1870373@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think younger people are in horror of being corny and so when they want to wear these enjoyably silly sweaters they feel better calling them "ugly" before someone suspects they actually like them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870100 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:11:48 +0000 anne 1870100@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thought you might like to&nbsp; see this recent Australian adaptation of this idea</p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://uglyxmasrashie.com.au/" rel="nofollow">https://uglyxmasrashie.com.au/</a></p> <p></p> <p>I don't know about the fruitcake as joke thing either. It is&nbsp; usual to have fruitcake at&nbsp; Christmas here, though I've never like them myself.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters/page/2#post-1870099 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:02:34 +0000 bridgie 1870099@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>approprio, thank you.&nbsp; You know, I think you are on to something there, that all ugly sweaters are star wars themed.</p> <p>Tina, your sweaters sound beautiful and fun.&nbsp; I think you should wear them again if you still have them.</p> <p>fashiontern, thanks for chiming in.&nbsp; Yes, I agree, it was meant to be that you post on reindeer themed sweaters, also star wars!</p> <p>Sisi, I am sorry you don't have a Christmas sweater.&nbsp; I hope you get one soon.&nbsp; Please post a pic when you do. :)</p> <p>lyn67, You made a couple of good points. Juvenile would be a better description than ugly.&nbsp; And yes, Norwegian/fair isle sweaters are a work of art.&nbsp; Thanks for posting.</p> <p>Glory, what a good idea, and what fun to buy Christmas sweaters for all the family. :)</p> <p>Joy and Runcarla, So glad you posted.&nbsp; Joy, I know your sweater is beautiful, enjoy it.&nbsp; I am a little upset that the others are missing.&nbsp; You sound like you might be a little too generous.&nbsp; I am that way myself.&nbsp; I don't feel too&nbsp;generous but I can be a pushover sometimes. :)</p> <p>Runcarla, I hope you find the Shriner's fruitcake.&nbsp; Sorry, I have no idea where to find them.&nbsp; I don't bake fruitcakes.&nbsp; I used to make jam cakes, but no one in my family liked them except me.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870091 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:12:13 +0000 rachylou 1870091@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don’t have anything like it. It was Coca-Cola red and white with Atari reindeer! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870086 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 04:59:26 +0000 bridgie 1870086@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Diana, Thanks for posting.&nbsp;It is too bad that all Christmas and or Holiday Sweaters have fallen under "ugly".&nbsp; Most of them are just too cute and fun to be called ugly.&nbsp; In my opinion. :)</p> <p>Cardiff girl, Thanks for posting.&nbsp; Poor boy.&nbsp; Had a lot to learn.&nbsp;I bet your daughter helped him by gently explaining differences in word meanings in different countries.&nbsp; I am of an advanced age and it has been since reading YLF that I heard a sweater or blouse called "jumper".</p> <p>Christina F, I love all three of those reindeer sweaters.&nbsp; Maybe you will decide to keep the third one also.&nbsp; Don't know how anyone could call a sweet face of a reindeer ugly!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870038 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 01:27:33 +0000 Carla 1870038@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, I've got an APB out for Shriners fruitcake! Can't find it anywhere! *Cry*. Though I'm a baking fiend, I don't do fruitcake. No one in the house eats it - except me. I'll pick a piece of fruitcake over all the other treats available and usually consume a Shriners red box (3 cakes) over the holidays! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870030 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:44:13 +0000 Anonymous 1870030@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I found a work of art sweater a few years ago at a thrift store in case I needed such a sweater. It has a scene with a shepherd and a bunch of sheep knitted in. I have bought others at the thrift store but all were borrowed and not returned. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870027 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:31:57 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1870027@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lyn67, I’ve never seen that movie, so didn’t know the reference. Thanks! I explained above how I thought the term came to be applied to even very nice clothing. But now it’s occurred to me that there might actually be referents for which it is appropriate—the mass-produced acrylic sweaters from the 70s with prints many generations removed from actual Norwegian sweaters. Are those what they’re talking about in Bridget Jones? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1870005 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:45:25 +0000 Tina 1870005@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I used to have a lovely "collectible" Christmas cardigan: black with tree, star, etc., appliques and sparkly things. I also had an even better one that was white, aqua, pink and had some kind of baubles appliqued with pale colored sequins and beads. It was the 90s, and I wore them every December. I don't think I have any photos -- but NO ONE called those ugly sweaters then. They made me happy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1869929 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:34:25 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 1869929@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Approprio, lol, that’s what I gave a nephew for Christmas last year—a Star Wars “ugly Christmas sweater”!</p> <p>Christina posted about reindeer sweaters and this cake up in my “memories”, so I think I’m meant to post about it: my kid in his Hannah heyday, wearing a reindeer sweater from Hannah Andersson. He was outgrowing it just as he was developing the attitude for it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1869928 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:29:59 +0000 approprio 1869928@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>On&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd35TvdpjU4">cakes and jumpers</a>&nbsp;(may not make sense to anyone outside the British Isles)</p> <p><b>JAileen</b>, your Norwegian knits are beautiful. They have no place in an ugly sweater event. I personally think ugly sweaters should <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.merchoid.com/product/star-wars-lack-of-cheer-disturbing-unisex-knitted-christmas-sweaterjumper/">always be Star Wars themed.</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1869906 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:43:06 +0000 JuniperGreen 1869906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kohl's has a pretty great array of ridiculous holiday sweaters, and I've also had some luck trawling the aisles of TJ Maxx/Marshalls! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1869896 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:20:39 +0000 Christina F. 1869896@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't think they're ugly per se, but I seem to have a thing for Reindeer (critters in general, really). </p> <p>The Boden striped top may have to go back. I forgot I had the first sweater, since it was packed away and I never tracked what I owned till this year. Three items seems like overkill even to me! The Boden is the only unworn item. Cute though!</p> <p>I also have an "uglier" heavy sweater with one of those Nordic Christmas patterns, that I thrifted. It's only cold enough to use it when I'm at my in-laws' place for Christmas. They live in a colder place than me or my side of the family, and they keep indoor temps on the frosty side. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ugly-sweaters#post-1869837 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:26:07 +0000 Glory 1869837@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am seriously considering buying Christmas sweaters for the whole family - just for fun. They are a thing here and even the schools usually designate a sweater day! </p>