What do you wear on Christmas Day?

[monkeysmama]

For the first time in my life I am looking forward to Christmas with unbridled excitement. Was doing some online browsing earlier & am wondering what to wear on Christmas Day. We'll be at home, make take a stroll, have guests for brunch & lunch at home with dd & dp (I'll be cooking)

I am going to order us all some new pjs for Christmas Eve but want to feel sparkly on Christmas Day.

I liked this on Claudia W on tv last night but am not sure about material.

What will you wear?

Thanks LTEC - didn't know what was happening for a while there. I never upset anyone!

I saw a pink dress the other day which made me think of you pink girls. I am not a pink fan - it does nothing for me - but for some reason I have fallen for this dress. I don't know why, it is so not my usual taste but oh is it beautiful.

I have just ordered my Christmas Eve nightwear it is nice .

Oooh woozlet - that's lovely and sparkly!

why baffled mrs mh? what's wrong with wanting to look nice with only your nearest and dearest as an audience? tbh when i get dressed up to go out (if with dp) it's only my/dp's opinion of what i'm wearing that i care about (hence nice undies :P)

Am going to insist FC brings me some nice Christmas day expandable loungewear to make room for pud and bun in the oven. Hush stuff, who do the cardigown looks beautiful, but too ££.

Long, slinky black velvet skirt, lacy stockinged feet (I'll start off in velvet mary janes but I always kick them off) & a Motorhead, Damned or Ghost Dance t-shirt .

Once dinner's actually on the table, I might stick a respectable top on...depends on how many sherries I've managed whilst stirring the gravy, & whether BIL has gone AWOL again with the kids 5 minutes before dishing up...

Is this a joke?
I am so out of it
Want to cry

sorry just realised was in style and beauty section, I will leave immediately!

don't cry skinski. There's still time to get into the fashionably festive spirit.

MM - unlike me - my sole talent is upsetting people!!

my problem with this thread is that now I want to know why this is the first Xmas you've really looked forward to. I know you have a completely adorable family so I'm all nosey and curious about it.

Don't expect an explanation, just thought you'd like to know that the bloodhound in me is excited!!!

Your little one is gorgeous!

whose??

WOnderbra - I would LOVE my MIL to get me the Boden cardigown thingy. Gorgeous.

Hey Super sleuth aka LTEC! I hate all the faffing that goes with a big family and Christmas .

And we've had a shit year.

This Christmas is going to make it all better . Me, dp, dd in our beautiful house .

going to bed, thoroughly depressed.

Not sure yet but will wear something really good as parents are flying from the other end of world to spend Christmas day with us and new baby (ten days or around that).

Needs buttons to bf.

heartofgold, what I actually said was that I'm baffled that people would buy something to wear just on Xmas Day. I also said that I was happy to make more effort to dress up myself, but spending extra money on a new outfit seems rather wasteful.

skin - why depressed?

Pjs in the morning to open presents, and then I am planning to wear a lovely wool Boden dress that I bought last winter, with my new black knee highs and my diamonds!

Love getting dressed up for Christmas

Wonderbra - I bought this for myself. It doesn't look great in the pic, but the fabric is lovely and I love the zip. You can wear it round the house without it gaping and revealing whats on/not on underneath. And the style isn't too 'nightwear' - as in not pink spotty fleece or whatever.

OP - we do dress up smartly, although I generally abandon the shoes at some point. I like knit dresses, as they're comfy and easy.

Wonderbra - if you are getting a dressing gown, make sure it's not a pain to launder though.

Xmas day I usually pull out something really outrageous that I've bought but never went anywhere to wear, maybe really high boots with a short dress or whatever, last year I dressed aka Amy Winehouse lol and proceeded to dance and sing like a nutter her in the kitchen after I'd done all the clearing up and family were watching Dr Who.

Pajamas until midday(ish), then comfy clothes (lounge bottoms and top) for chillin' with the homies.

If I'm going out, a pretty skirt, top, heels, jewellery, make-up.

Bikini and sarong!

psml, I read this thread backwards and was wondering why so many people were wearing wonderbras on xmas day ;)
(clearly too early too mn!)

Black wrap over dress to cope with expanding bump.....some one have some sherrys for me

with 4 young boys, i wont be dressing up too much , or at all i guess,
we go to church so im smart but not woohoo beautiful, which is a shame but theres no point me going mad
ive got to cook for 12, and tbh we celebrate the religious side of christmas but the dressing up part....but it would be lovely to do so just for a change

but i will be changing batteries, doing ready steady GO crawling comps with my 17mth old son, im a kind of down on the floor type of mom, il also be on the wii with them if they want me to join in....

im an oldie too lol at 42 , and of course i own a dressing gown and a flannalette nighty of course buttoned up to then neck and ankle length

but the cosiness is ahhhhhhhhhhhhh