Did anyone do a shrouded / veiled Christmas tree this year?

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

I quite like the look of them. Might go for it next year.

Yeah, nah.

Reminds me of spider/caterpillar webs

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-57356372

might stop my cat from attempting to climb it!

🤣🙌

Lest we forget...

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Oh yes, mine probably looks like this. It's still in the loft and is probably covered in cobwebs.

😂you're ahead of a trend!

I would have said that this wins the internet for encouraging the gullible to copy these lame-brains and waste their time too, but yesterday in my news feed there was an article that just pipped it.
It was entitled something like ‘The latest masturbation trends for 2026’.
Thank goodness for paywalls!

The trouble with it would be having to try to disentangle the cat from the gauze fabric without the tree falling onto you both, I would have thought. Because I don't believe a cat wouldn't at least experiment with a tentative claw or two, and then you have a problem.

Completely agree. It'd be a challenge to them. Whether that just be to climb it or wreak mass destruction. Probably both. And aimed to maximum piss me off.

I believe it’s organza fabric they have used

To me, that evokes inadequately sheer garden fleece, on a conifer, indoors.
So much wrongness 🤯🤣.

You could repurpose it after Christmas as an anti-leaf-cover for an outdoor goldfish pond?

I think it probably is, in the posh ones. I'd use cotton muslin though. It's fine and could be easily washed and reused.

I’ve covered my plants outside in that to stop the frost getting them …
Looks ridiculous, my kids would think I’d lost the plot if I did that !

Somehow I don't think it will. It looks ridiculous. And I lived through the angel hair era of Christmas tree decoration.

I saw one similar to this on Insta - I think it was Stacey Dooley.

All a bit 'Emperor's new clothes' for me. Just because someone has decided it's fashion doesn't make it nice!

Never heard of such a thing.

When you said "shrouded", my first thought was "did someone die?" Like, this is the tree equivalent of dressing in mourning clothes when someone passes.

Mostly it looks like you forgot to take the netting off.

It’s probably fine, modern electrics and all that, but I would just sit there all day with my internal monologue going “FireHazardFireHazardFireHazardFireHazardFireHazardFIREHAZARD”

My favourite mumsnet comment of the year 😂

I'm not sure I like the effect but it is evocatively symbolic since the baby whose birth we celebrate is literally born to wear a shroud not because he is mortal (so we are all destined to the shroud) but because his purpose is to unmake the mistake of Adam by the sacrifice of his own life. Without the shroud of Good Friday there can be no Christmas, after all.
But surely dangerous with fairy lights under it?

That just looks like a fire hazard, I'm not sure the fire brigade would be keen on this trend, is this a joke?

It looks awful

Is this a joke? Do you decorate your tree according to what the fire brigade are keen on?! 😭😭

And tbf for all the (weird) comments about fire this trend has most been seen in luxury hotels, outlets like f&m/ Harrods and even stately homes

Businesses with far more fire requirements to meet than your sitting room.

Creepy and totally absurd at the same time.

What a ridiculous idea.