...to consider Christmas jumpers the very definition of nauseating twee?

[PointsSouth]

...and, while I'm at it, Christmas pyjamas. I know someone who has a Christmas duvet set, for God's sake.

I'm not against Christmas. Tree, lights, It's a Wonderful Life, chocolate orange - I can handle all that. Embrace it even.

But Christmas jumpers? Not even for charity. Two quid to wear a Christmas jumper at work? Nah. Here's a tenner - I'm out.

You do you

I think they are hideous and refuse to own one.

If others choose to wear one that is their misfortune, not mine.

(lighthearted before I get lynched).

Tragic and unpleasant jumpers are a real issue in Britain. More should be done about them! Why is the Government silent on this??

So are Quality Street now. The new wrappers have pissed all over my Christmas joy.

It is nauseating twee but as others have said that’s kind of the point.

I have no problem with this but it does irritate me when I am expected to spend money on them by school and employer etc. No problem with a bit of naff fun but naff fun shouldn’t be mandatory.

Whether or not they are twee, nauseating, naff or whatever is not the point. Low or single use clothing, possibly made in a sweat shop, is what the objection should be. And also should genuinely be optional.

I don't mind Xmas pj's they can be worn almost year round.

The school Xmas jumpers piss me of they are around 15.00 at least. That's 30.00 for me . Something they will wear on once. My older child does not want to do it thank God.

No it really isn’t. Christmas jumpers are a uniquely British thing.

Ahh. So they're ironic?
Right.
Still appalling.

No, they're not. As a pp said, they're also ubiquitous in Ireland. Like a creeping plague of acrylic light-up reindeer and mad-eyed elves.

They’re not for me, but I’m not going to sneer at things other people find fun and take joy in 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t own one simply because they all seem to be crew necks which are horrendous on me 🙄😆. But I don’t dislike them, just a bit of fun.

I’m all for people wearing what they want, I just hate the hypocrisy of Christmas jumper day in aid of Save the children, when it’s kids in third world countries being forced to make the bloody things.

I wear Xmas PJs all year round anyway! But I do like a Christmas jumper - I use them year after year and they make me smile, but then again I'm not someone who dresses based on what I think other people will like or think of me. I wear what makes me happy and that's it. I've got three I will wear in December. I work from home so I can wear whatever I like, and I do

It's ok as long as they're not all matching ones. That got naff before it was ironic naff.

I hate that I'm expected to buy jumpers for my children that they will wear once for Xmas Jumper Day at school, and that are predominantly made of plastic.

Quite happy to buy Xmas tat that isn't going to sit in landfill for millenia, e.g. the Who Gives a Crap Xmas loo roll for example.

I'm not overly keen on Christmas. It's gone far too commercial for my liking and all the fuss over one meal 🙄and I'm not a Winter lover.
But I do like a Christmas jumper.

I love sparkly things, so the more sequins on a Christmas jumper the better.

I don't like them, but there was one year when ds1 was required to wear one to work, and ds2 needed one for school, so I bought three matching ones from Tesco.

We turned up at our Christmas Family Day wearing them, with the lights flashing, and had my siblings take a series of extremely naff photos, complete with cheesy grins.

It was fab and remains a very fond memory (and the pictures make me laugh whenever I come across them)

I think that's the whole point.

The tackier the better!

I suspect I am myself nauseatingly twee and therefore being rather attracted to somewhat homespun-looking fugly fair isle jumpers with prancing reindeer on them is par for the course. What irritates me is that it makes me an adman's victim these days whereas before I was just someone with awful taste.

YANBU.

There is nobody in the world who didn’t ever look like a twat in a Christmas jumpers. I have worn them before but find that quality is subsidised for the tacky cheap crap adorned on it and any I’ve worn have made me itch like hell

I don’t really get people that wear Christmas jumpers. But each to their own I suppose, however naff. 🤷‍♀️

As I always point out on these threads, sweatshop labour petrochemical fabric wear-once clothing shipped halfway round the world in a massively polluting container ship is definitely what Jesus would have wanted for his birthday

They are too naff for our workplace so instead we are having a world food day to raise money, with Christmas food theme if you want but if not, food from around the world.

I don't think they are that bad if made of natural fibres, on my DC when younger - quite sweet. Unsure about adults in them.