Christmas Sweaterious?

Yep, you guys finally made me do it!  You drove me crazy with your incessant need to wear Christmas sweaters!  As if the bling encrusted all over every house and wrapped around every light post isn't enough, you have to bedazzle yourselves!  I actually saw an 80 year-old, History professor wearing one of the ridiculous things.  That's when I knew things had gone too far!



I think the Christmas sweater "trend" has been perpetrated by teachers.  I have never met a teacher who didn't love a Christmas sweater.  I talked my friend into wearing a terrible Christmas sweater to a party. She actually borrowed one that I wore to a bad Christmas sweater party.  Guess what?  She was complimented by the hostess of the party who is, you guessed it, a teacher!  Only at a party full of teachers can one get away with wearing a Christmas sweater and not being laughed out of the room. 

Even wearing Santa earrings!

Normal me and Nitro

I mentioned I own a Christmas sweater.  I bought it to wear to a Christmas sweater party.  The most obnoxious sweater won.  I can't remember what the prize was.  We were drinking the entire time.  Here is my transformation from Me to Christmas sweater me.  I look like a teacher, right?

 What started out as a rant has evolved into a theory.  Clothing trends come and go but the Christmas sweater seems to be here to stay.  At first, I thought maybe it is because of the limited wear time.  Now, I'm not so sure.  I think the staying power of the Christmas sweater is really about laziness.  This laziness is perpetrated by teachers!  I can (sort of) understand wearing a Christmas sweater to school if you teach young kids.  Once home, it should be immediately removed!  Instead, someone got ballsy and decided it would be a good idea to wear it to a party.  Then, like a mad rush of fat people to a buffet, they all decided to do it!  The flood gates opened and that's how we ended up with the Christmas sweater!