Ugly Sweaters and Wannabes

My "bad Christmas sweater"

My brother and sister-in-law had an ugly sweater party on the weekend and I had looked forward to it ever since receiving the text invite earlier in the week.

Saturday (aka party day) arrived and I spent the day collecting crafting tools for Christmas gifts. While I was at the thrift store, I overheard a conversation between the clerk and the customer in front of me. They were discussing bad Christmas sweater parties. I guess it's a thing.

Anyway, the discussion was about how the shop had a few regular sweaters with a piece of garland pinned to them displayed for those shopping for Christmas sweaters for parties. And about how quickly they were being sold.

So it's a big thing.

And I thought…what a gimmick! It's a regular sweater people!
With a cheap piece of tinsel on it!

And then I remembered the time I knit myself a pretty ugly sweater and I became inspired to wear it to the party.

So I got all dressed up in brights and bads and showed up right on time.

After a while my brother said to me, "Robyn we decided you missed the memo on the Christmas sweater thing and showed up for Halloween."

I could only assume he and the whole guest list decided this.

"That's ridiculous. I was a pirate for Halloween."

"Well then you missed the memo on the bad Christmas sweater."

And then, everything fell into place.

"Why yes, yes I did."

It's really too bad he told me about the memo because I don't think it would've dawned on me and I would've had a blissful time at the party looking all out-of-place and not knowing it. One benefit is the whole garland thing made a lot more sense.

This whole experience reminded me of the rock star party I attended the week before. I tried to be Lily Allen.

My night on the town as Lily Allen