Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, I would like to say that I have never been invited to an ugly sweater party. So I can't claim that I've ever taken a principled stance and actually refused an invitation to one of these things. I don't have much will power, and I don't want to make it seem like I feel strongly enough about this issue that I would give up the rare opportunity to leave my one-room hermitage just to make a point. As you can see, such opportunities are few and far between for me. It is 7:30 PM on a Friday night and I am at home by myself posting to a blog that is, at best, read by five people (but five people of the highest quality, might I add).
Anyway, all I know is that ugly sweater parties have gotten out of control. By this I mean that last time I was in Value Village (which is a second-hand store where I buy most of my clothes these days, except for underwear, which I now order online from gap.com. Is that too much information?) there were two girls in front of me, either SPU or UW students, sometimes it's hard to tell. (No offense. I mean, some of my best friends are UW students.) I could tell this because the girl placed two ugly sweaters on the counter and asked if she could pay for one with a debit card and one with cash, because it was for her roommate.
Maybe I'm just bitter because the only time I ever placed a costume choice in the hands of a roommate I ended up being the red Power Ranger for Halloween. Bronwyn got to be Superman, her friend got to be Batman, and Cara got to be Spiderman and I was the red Power Ranger. I had never even seen the Power Rangers.
But that is irrelevant. The point is I thought having an ugly sweater party was funny when I first heard about it. But now I don't get it. At this point it's no longer an original idea by any stretch of the imagination, but it's also about ten years too early for it to be an ironic party theme ("Let's have an ugly sweater party. It'll be so 2007! Like when they thought it was so funny to have parties to make fun of the sweaters people wore in the '80's.")
Apologies. I'll dismount from my soapbox now (10! She sticks the landing!). I haven't been this controversial since 2006 when I wrote about pink baseball caps and Kenli accused me of hating breast cancer victims.
9 comments:
First breast cancer victims, and now ugly-sweater-party attendees! Next thing you know, you'll be ragging on double-polo-popped-collars wearers!
(fyi - I've never been to an ugly sweater party either :) )
Your Friday night is more exciting than mine, if you can believe it. Thank goodness I have a new blog post to distract me from my paper!
I am similarly befuddled by ugly sweater parties, having never been to one myself (I guess that makes three of us). . .
4! though i was at a bar one night with some friends who wore ugly sweaters to the bar. which i thought was kind of funny and cool, and only later realized was part of an arguably much-overdone tired little theme.
keep up the posts!
I must clarify - I have never been to one of these parties either. 5!
I did go to a Christmas pub crawl last year and a lot of people wore ugly sweaters but I don't think that was the theme. And my own tacky Christmas party 2 years ago doesn't count because I was the only one who dressed up and I didn't wear a sweater. Anyway, I agree that the whole thing is a little played out. You wouldn't have an 80s theme party every year right?
6! I've never even heard of ugly sweater parties...
Cecil, would you like to have an ugly sweater party when we're home? I think you do. Consider it happening. : )
I would like a new post please.
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