Christmas sweater

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Assortment of Christmas jumpers in a UK department store, 2016

A Christmas sweater is a sweater that is designed with Christmas or winter motifs.

history

In the 1980s, show greats began to appear on British television's Christmas programming wearing knitted sweaters with Christmas motifs on the front. In the 1990s and 2000s, this item of clothing developed into a joke item in the Anglo-Saxon region , at the latest in 2001, when the actor Colin Firth appeared in the film Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast in a Christmas sweater , the front of which showed the representation of a large elk's head . From this emerged the fashion trend or cult of the " ugly Christmas jumper " ( English : ugly Christmas jumper or ugly Christmas sweater ), which according to experts - such as the magazine Textilwirtschaft , the German Fashion Institute and the Federal Association of German Textile Retailers - since the mid-2010s Years has also arrived in German-speaking countries.

Web links

Commons : Christmas jumpers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bridget Jones's Diary - Mark and Bridget meet , video on YouTube (2:02 min), accessed on December 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Ugly, but powerful: the Christmas sweater trend is coming to Germany . Article from December 5, 2016 in the portal tz.de , accessed on December 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Pia Rolfs: Fashion trend from the USA and GB: “Ugly Christmas sweaters” now also in Germany . Article from December 9, 2016 in the fnp.de portal , accessed on December 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Julian Gutberlet: Why you wear ugly Christmas sweaters now . Article from December 18, 2016 in the welt.de portal , accessed on December 19, 2016
  5. ↑ Reindeer, Santa Clauses and Co .: “Ugly Christmas Sweater” phenomenon is conquering Germany . Article from December 5, 2016 in the Abendzeitung-muenchen.de portal , accessed on December 19, 2016
  6. ↑ Ugly Christmas sweater trend has arrived in Austria . Article from December 15, 2016 in the vienna.at portal , accessed on December 19, 2016
  7. ↑ Why the 'ugly Christmas sweater' is making waves in Germany . Article from December 6, 2016 in the portal thelokal.de , accessed on December 19, 2016