Xmas jumpers - what do you think?

Given that on your own admission you don't "do Christmas", shanma, why does that not surprise me.
Those of us who do, will just have to live with looking "cheap, nasty and gross" ?

I also find jumpers too hot. I bought a t-shirt last year from Bonmarche. Black with sequined holly. Shall wear it again this year.

Love them. Colour and fun.

I don't wear my xmas jumper on xmas day though. But I do wear it as I said at work and on xmas week I wear it going out for coffee with friends. I like to bring a smile to people's faces☺

I've got a couple that are quite tasteful - a red and cream one with a snowflake pattern in the knit, and a lovely soft pale green one with tiny sprigs of berried holly sewn in.

They're a bit too subtle actually. This year I intend to buy a cheap, nasty and gross one that makes the DGSs laugh

I have a nice navy t shirt with a robin on the front but DH actually has a light up jumper! It's mid blue with a Christmas tree and the tree lights flash! He loves all the tacky stuff like musical socks, ties etc.

I have some light up Christmas tree earrings, Katek. I think I've only worn them once. I can never find them at Christmas, but they always seem to turn up somewhere daft sometime in Spring. Then I put them in the safe place again...

Gaudy Christmas jumpers ? Toe curling.

kitty it was from Tesco. I get too hot to wear a sweater while cooking. My family are coming for the first time in about 30 years, so I want us to start with a laugh!

Maggiemaybe I love those earrings! They are so cheap, nasty and gross!

Oh dear Shanma don't come near my house at Christmas then. I have bought myself a wonderfully tacky jumper with flashing lights (will probably drive everyone mad) and have bought a more restrained one for my sister (she doesn't know yet). DH and DS have t-shirts. DH and I agreed - if not worn, no dinner!
This is a first for me, I don't normally do this.

DH's jumper-have decapitated him for his own protection!

And this is a bit off-topic, but DH came home last year with the cheapest, nastiest and grossest(?) Christmas decoration. A plastic big wheel with plastic passengers that plugs in and turns slowly, while multi-coloured epilepsy-inducing lights flash on and off. Even I'd vetoed the blooming thing, but he snapped it up half-price (who'd have guessed?) on Christmas Eve and the grandkids love it.

Mind you, I did have to stop myself buying a Christmas train complete with track the other day - I just had a sudden vision of it chugging round the Christmas table, bread sauce, cranberry jelly and stuffings in its carriages. I sometimes think being a Nanna has sent me slightly crazy.

Sorry, I should have started a tacky Christmas decorations thread As you were, sweater wearers!

Love your t-shirt, Lona, and the jumper of Katek's DH.

Though I don't possess a festive sweater myself, I think they are a bit of fun and love to see people wearing them.

Cannot think of Christmas jumper without 'Bridget Jones' springing to mind. Harmless fun. Family traditions and all that. PS I don't have one neither does anyone else - not in my family tradition. But the Christmas aprons, oven gloves and everything else comes out in my house.

Christmas jumpers/T-shirts are not my thing, but have no objection to others wearing them. I personally dislike wearing anything with a picture or message on it - always think it's a bit naff. I don't even like wallets which tell you where to put 'Stamps' etc. I must be an anarchist at heart....

I feel they are a bit of a waste of money for the amount of time you wear them. I'd rather buy something bright/shiny but not particularly Christmassy that I can wear on other occasions.

I love it Lona...where did you get it? Just the job. I've spoiled more silk shirts, velvet skirts, good trousers, smart dresses, new slippers etc. With the likes of turkey fat and other spillages and spatter to wear nice things on Christmas day.

Primark have more adult Christmas jumpers than kids' ones. I thought it was odd but now presume it has to do with workplace parties. I wanted a Christmassy jumper for a two year old for a seasonal photograph at his nursery but didn't want to pay a huge price for something worn for such a short time. Perhaps it's a bit early yet. We made do with a starry jumper he can wear all winter.
I have a green sparkly cardigan and a Christmas red cardigan which both come out for Christmas week but that's as far as I will go though I like to see them on the youngsters or anyone confident enough.

I am envious of all you lucky grans who have the unimaginable (to me) bliss of overheating by the donning of a single jumper! My entire winter is a multi, multi, multi layered nightmare!

Bonne marche sell lovely Christmas t shirts . I have 2 or 3 from last year.

My son and daughter in law are having both families round for Christmas day and have asked us all to wear Christmas jumpers. I got mine from soi dog rescue so that I am helping the dogs and keeping the family happy at the same time

Not got a Christmas jumper but have purchased some festive scarfs with santa on for this year

Noticed a really good one in a charity shop window display yesterday. Got home and found a message about a Xmas party asking people to wear Xmas jumpers. So I'll go and see if it's still there. I'm sure the grandchildren will be very impressed with me. As others have said, it's just a bit of fun.

Last year I knitted one with a huge Christmas pudding on it with two big pompoms for holly berries on top. Everyone laughed heartily at me but then the orders started coming in. Will you make one for me aunty? I'll have one please grandma. I'll have a reindeer, and I'll have a Santa and I'll have..... I protested that the shops were full of them but for once in their lives all my family wanted handknits. Even DGD aged 18 months had an order in for a penguin with a pompom tail at the back. I know they'll only be worn for a few days a year but year on year until the fad fades. I love it.