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

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

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

I'm interiors obsessed, it's a genuine hobby of mine, but I've never seen this in any magazines or any of the designers I follow on sm.

Even if it's the height of fashion, I wouldn't do it. To me it looks like I'm about to paint the living room or stick the tree outside but protected from frost!

<<shudder>>
It looks funerary and sinister. You just need to have a few momenta mori tastefully placed around along with those Victorian photographs of the dead posed with the living to finish it off.
That and big swags of fir and yew and dark red or black ribbons everywhere.

Mine came like that from the shop. It’s a plastic net to aid transport. I took it off, as one is supposed to.

What new ridiculousness is this? It looks pretentious cr@p 🙄😂

...and a spider or two hanging off the netting.

Not being Christian, I had to read your comment carefully to follow. But yes! Although I'm not sure how the tree links to Christ.

Born to wear a shroud. Sounds super sad, until we consider we're ALL fated to this.

Bit deep for a thread about a Christmas tree fad.

Indeed so. A memento mori is de rigueur in our house. 😉

This was part of my Christmas table. Gather ye rosebuds …

Eh? That’s mental.

Actual best bit of this is that you tell us you live in a 5 year old end of terrace Barrett home in Epping PLEASE SAY YOU DO

Ha ha! Close: Norfolk Medieval hall-house built between 1480 and 1510. Apart from that, spot on. 😃

We had a boneyard for Christmas lunch too.

No! I won’t hear of it! 😂😂

It just looks like they've forgotten to take off some protective wrapping!

Does it stop the needles from shedding? (Onto the floor I mean, do they all collect at the bottom of the net?)

And a Happy Christmas to you too! 😂

That is one ugly tree

Maybe if you like a goth Christmas and there are no children around to scare?!

Anything claimed as a ‘trend’ for Christmas is undeniably naff.

Shrouded tree? What a totally shit idea and looks even worse.

Daft comment.

Christmas trees became a British thing less than 200 years ago.

Advent calendars less than 50 years ago.

And as for Christmas Eve boxes and Elf on the Shelf. Within the last decade.

Everything starts somewhere.

It looks like it goes with plastic sofa covers and that clear plastic runner old people put on their hall carpets when I was a kid.

Do you have antimacassars?

I had an. advent calendar as a child and I am almost 70. They are much older than 50 years!
The first commercial ones were introduced at the beginning of the last Century with beautiful pictures in them, the first ones that had chocolate in them were introduced in 1958.So even they are older than 50
Elf on the Shelf and Christmas Eve boxes are recent additions but they are not universally liked or followed by everyone in the UK on fact I'd say they are very unpopular with a lot of families.

It really won’t. As if…
It looks absolutely shite.

We had advent calendars as children and that definitely was more than 50 years ago

Advent calendars were being printed in the UK at least by1956, and possibly earlier (but after WWII).

And the first Christmas tree at Queen's Lodge in Windsor was in 1800. (Prince Albert popularised them further, but they were already here by the 1840s when he got in on the act.)

Christmas Eve boxes and the elf can fuck off as well

I AM with you on that one.