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Ugly Christmas sweaters?

DamePiglet
DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
edited February 8 in Chit-Chat
Is anyone attending an ugly sweater party? Care to share photos or ideas?
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  • Blessed9jaBeauty
    Blessed9jaBeauty Posts: 504 Member
    Never been to one, but if I were to ever attend one, I would soooo wear one that lights up :wink: P.S. I don't know how true this is but I heard certain stores have an "ALL SALES ARE FINAL," policy on their "ugly sweaters" :laugh:

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  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Oh my! That's pretty bad!

    You know,I never thought of that. I don't plan on returning my "lovely" sweater vest, but ill bet others do.

    I'm told that the thrift stores sell out of otherwise unsellable sweaters at this time of year.
  • Blessed9jaBeauty
    Blessed9jaBeauty Posts: 504 Member
    Thrift Stores have some AMAZING finds...I'm sure you'll look lovely in your sweater vest (we make the clothes, the clothes don't make us right? ) :wink: Have a wonderful time!
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Thanks, hon! :flowerforyou:
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
    I made one last year and won a gift card. :) It was pretty horrendous!
    I'll have to go take a picture.
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    I made one last year and won a gift card. :) It was pretty horrendous!
    I'll have to go take a picture.

    Yessssss!!!! Please do!
  • RyanJK85
    RyanJK85 Posts: 580 Member
    Go on a ugly sweater party bus every year :drinker:
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
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    Oversized plain red sweatshirt
    Cut out green felt in the shape of a Christmas tree
    Hot glued tinsel, jingle bells, pom poms, and a huge bow on it
    ...there were jingle bells glued down on both arms too
    Shredded cotton balls for the snow
    Added gold glitter glue just because I like sparkles

    It was gloriously tacky!
  • Blessed9jaBeauty
    Blessed9jaBeauty Posts: 504 Member
    a064c0a3-9ded-4936-b427-b8795bbf676a_zps417be5cb.jpg

    Oversized plain red sweatshirt
    Cut out green felt in the shape of a Christmas tree
    Hot glued tinsel, jingle bells, pom poms, and a huge bow on it
    ...there were jingle bells glued down on both arms too
    Shredded cotton balls for the snow
    Added gold glitter glue just because I like sparkles

    It was gloriously tacky!

    The bow is FABULOUS!
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I wish that just sounds like fun
  • pseudomuffin
    pseudomuffin Posts: 1,058 Member
    I want to go to an ugly christmas sweater party so bad that I vow to one day throw one when I have a better home for entertaining. I LOVE the concept
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    I wish that just sounds like fun

    If you can't go to or organize one,you can live vicariously through this thread. :laugh:
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    a064c0a3-9ded-4936-b427-b8795bbf676a_zps417be5cb.jpg

    Oversized plain red sweatshirt
    Cut out green felt in the shape of a Christmas tree
    Hot glued tinsel, jingle bells, pom poms, and a huge bow on it
    ...there were jingle bells glued down on both arms too
    Shredded cotton balls for the snow
    Added gold glitter glue just because I like sparkles

    It was gloriously tacky!

    Yesssss!!!! Gloriously tacky is right!
  • patols1
    patols1 Posts: 108 Member
    I will be hunting tomorrow for an ugly sweater, we are having a ugly sweater contest for the residents where I work. I will be watching this thread for ideas!!!
  • SamanthaD1218
    SamanthaD1218 Posts: 303 Member
    I host an ugly Christmas sweater party each year, and am the proud owner of a homemade ugly Christmas sweater! I got it from Goodwill a while back - it was a giant black sweater with a few white bows on the knit design. So I added a fur trim, beads, glittery pointsettias, gems - you name it! Every year it gets pretty beat up and loses a few decorations, but that just means I get to add more the following year. And of course, it wouldn't be complete without my awesome Christmas leggings:

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  • puppy1002
    puppy1002 Posts: 154 Member
    I'm going to my work ugly sweater party, I have the idea in my head and partly done making it, that's what I'll be doing this weekend is finishing it. When I'm done I'll post a pic.

    My idea is I bought a bunch of thrift store sweaters and I'm cutting them up and sewing them together along with felt shapes and extras. With big gotye xmas buttons and trim around the bottom.
  • rachaelgifford
    rachaelgifford Posts: 320 Member
    I have never been to an ugly Christmas jumper party - but we did have a standard Christmas jumper party at uni. It was fun :-)
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  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    I host an ugly Christmas sweater party each year, and am the proud owner of a homemade ugly Christmas sweater! I got it from Goodwill a while back - it was a giant black sweater with a few white bows on the knit design. So I added a fur trim, beads, glittery pointsettias, gems - you name it! Every year it gets pretty beat up and loses a few decorations, but that just means I get to add more the following year. And of course, it wouldn't be complete without my awesome Christmas leggings:

    2ic7dle.jpg

    OhEmGee! Not gaudy at all!!! hahahaha!!!!

    Thanks for all the posts! I'm loving it!
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    I wish that just sounds like fun

    If you can't go to or organize one,you can live vicariously through this thread. :laugh:

    Yay!

    Just a thought, but if you are hosting one don't you think you should turn the heat down in the house? With all those bodies and woolly sweaters with tons of tinsels I bet it can get too hot. That was my thought if I ever hosted one.
  • SamanthaD1218
    SamanthaD1218 Posts: 303 Member
    I wish that just sounds like fun

    If you can't go to or organize one,you can live vicariously through this thread. :laugh:

    Yay!

    Just a thought, but if you are hosting one don't you think you should turn the heat down in the house? With all those bodies and woolly sweaters with tons of tinsels I bet it can get too hot. That was my thought if I ever hosted one.

    You are very right! We always end up opening a window because I have a pretty small apartment, so I always turn off the heat the morning of the party.
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    so, it turns out that my friend and co-worker does not yet have a sweater and she's going to trust ME to decorate one for her. I was looking for ideas when I came across this atrocity:

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    :noway:
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Okay... Just finished my friend's sweater.

    I think it's ugly, but also tacky.
    Thoughts?

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  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Bump, dammit!
  • Sinisterly
    Sinisterly Posts: 10,913 Member
    Do you IMVU O.o? lol
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Noooo... I'm old and behind the times. Lol

    You are awesome, sin. Just FYI. :laugh:
  • silver_arrow3
    silver_arrow3 Posts: 1,373 Member
    Okay... Just finished my friend's sweater.

    I think it's ugly, but also tacky.
    Thoughts?

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    <---Mine was quite similar!
  • Nikoruo
    Nikoruo Posts: 771 Member
    Why are they called ugly sweaters? i think they are super cute :o
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member


    <---Mine was quite similar!

    I see that!! Awesome!!! I love yours!
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    Why are they called ugly sweaters? i think they are super cute :o

    Awwww... There was a trend not too long ago that Christmas sweaters got super gaudy.
    The sweaters are meant to poke fun at that. :smile:
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