Jen mentioned her friend Adam somewhere in an earlier post (she is knitting him a hat, which I believe is forthcoming to the Teamknit blog any day now!) and he is the one who throws the annual Ugly Sweater Party. The concept is simple: Wear an ugly sweater. Come to a party. Let the good times roll!
Men decked out in sweaters that only Bill Cosby could love, and the women looked like their mothers and grandmothers, circa 1981. Ah, ugly sweaters.Jen wore a barbie pink shapeless 80's sweater with black sequin stripes, and I wore a gold and black sparkly 'mom' sweater with flying-squirrel sleeves (because sweater should give you a wing span), shapeless enough to instantly give you that I've-had-4-kids kind of figure. We went shopping (with Rebecca, see below) at Value Village for our stunning finds.
The funny thing was, the idea of an ugly sweater is so subjective. And there was a lot of lively debating with strangers at the party over whether or not a sweater was truly 'ugly'. And we were never really sure if our friend Rebecca's sweater was ugly, or just way too big:
espeically not when we realized it was an Adrienne Vittadini. What a find!
Facebook is now littered with a billion photos of that night. Several photos I do not exactly remember being taken, and Jen and I spent waay too much time having a drunken conversation about how we should knit an entire chess set, and how we would go about knitting the different peices. I sloshed around a lot of wine during that conversation.
That's my kind of party.
A bunch more ugly sweaters here: http://www.kineticform.com/
