Comments on: The Holiday Sweater http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/ Manolo Loves the Shoes! Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:16:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: green » Greetings from the Embassy http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-565982 green » Greetings from the Embassy Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:08:02 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-565982 [...] Seasonal holiday sweaters were in full force. A woman strolling out the door as we arrived sported a black model with glittery sequined poinsettia’s sprawled haphazardly down her chest and belly; another patron had a red one decorated with colorful packages and wreaths; a third wore a plain green and white one dotted with illuminated LED reindeer pins which were distracting even from across the room. I sadly couldn’t take photos without seeming awfully forward, so you’ll just have to imagine them. [...] […] Seasonal holiday sweaters were in full force. A woman strolling out the door as we arrived sported a black model with glittery sequined poinsettia’s sprawled haphazardly down her chest and belly; another patron had a red one decorated with colorful packages and wreaths; a third wore a plain green and white one dotted with illuminated LED reindeer pins which were distracting even from across the room. I sadly couldn’t take photos without seeming awfully forward, so you’ll just have to imagine them. […]

]]> By: ginny http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-14663 ginny Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:28:46 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-14663 The supervisor of the ginny has probably already purchased most of the hats of the blinking light antlers, thus saving many children from the beatings of the bullies. She believes the supervisor is giving them to older relations, who are expected to fend off attacks. It is the ginny's belief that her supervisor ordered everything out of the catalog of the trading orientals, and that once again the ginny and her poor cow-orkers may look forward to yet another Christmas coffee mug of the simpering horror. Or perhaps the horror of the blinking antlers is to be visited upon them all, like the eleventh plague of the Egypts. The supervisor of the ginny has probably already purchased most of the hats of the blinking light antlers, thus saving many children from the beatings of the bullies. She believes the supervisor is giving them to older relations, who are expected to fend off attacks.

It is the ginny’s belief that her supervisor ordered everything out of the catalog of the trading orientals, and that once again the ginny and her poor cow-orkers may look forward to yet another Christmas coffee mug of the simpering horror. Or perhaps the horror of the blinking antlers is to be visited upon them all, like the eleventh plague of the Egypts.

]]> By: jrochest http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12404 jrochest Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:15:54 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12404 Yes, it's ironic. You can tell by the design of the main page. I think that Leslie Hall is to beaded sweaters what James Lileks is to bad food and 1960's interior design. And I really, really want to know where she found the glasses and the pants. Yes, it’s ironic. You can tell by the design of the main page. I think that Leslie Hall is to beaded sweaters what James Lileks is to bad food and 1960’s interior design.

And I really, really want to know where she found the glasses and the pants.

]]> By: Spirophita http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12398 Spirophita Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:55:44 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12398 I can personally vouch for the Midwest appeal of the holiday sweatshirt. I can't count on two hands how many holiday sweatshirts I had to pretend I liked and wear as a child. And to make matters worse, there were the red/brown reindeer headbands, the christmas-light earrings, the christmas bell necklace, christmas glittery nail polish, and matching Christmas-tree-covered socks. Not only was it poor style, it was sensory overload. I bet this <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/otcweb/application?namespace=browse&origin=categoryDisplay.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&sku=4/3716&mode=Browsing&catDestinationJSP=/browse/categoryForward.jsp?categoryId=342716" rel="nofollow">poor child</a> gets beaten up at school. I can personally vouch for the Midwest appeal of the holiday sweatshirt. I can’t count on two hands how many holiday sweatshirts I had to pretend I liked and wear as a child. And to make matters worse, there were the red/brown reindeer headbands, the christmas-light earrings, the christmas bell necklace, christmas glittery nail polish, and matching Christmas-tree-covered socks. Not only was it poor style, it was sensory overload.

I bet this poor child gets beaten up at school.

]]> By: Kimberly http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12334 Kimberly Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:46:51 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12334 Last Christmas, I attended a holiday luncheon in a beautiful remodeled Victorian inn in the small, rural/suburban South Carolina town in which I attended high school. I looked around the room at one point (there were about three tables per room) and realized I was the only woman above the age of 21 in the room who was NOT wearing a Christmas-themed sweater. Thank God I moved to Philadelphia. Last Christmas, I attended a holiday luncheon in a beautiful remodeled Victorian inn in the small, rural/suburban South Carolina town in which I attended high school.

I looked around the room at one point (there were about three tables per room) and realized I was the only woman above the age of 21 in the room who was NOT wearing a Christmas-themed sweater.

Thank God I moved to Philadelphia.

]]> By: pdotfu http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12208 pdotfu Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:52:41 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12208 But but, its so much FUN to knit terrifying sweaters. My children and I used to consider one a success if we could imagine it creeping out from underneath the sofa at night to attack. Nowdays I knit them classical designs of great rectitude. But but, its so much FUN to knit terrifying sweaters. My children and I used to consider one a success if we could imagine it creeping out from underneath the sofa at night to attack.
Nowdays I knit them classical designs of great rectitude.

]]> By: Tia Nieve http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12205 Tia Nieve Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:58:54 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12205 The Tia Nieve, she has often raised her impeccably threaded eyebrows at the beaded sweaters of the Holidays, but after visiting the site of the Leslie Hall, the Tia recognizes True Art when she sees it. The Tia encourages the Leda Horticulture to bring the Bird Flu sweater and the Tax Season sweater to magnificent reality. Perhaps the Leslie Hall can collaborate with the Leda. The Tia Nieve, she has often raised her impeccably threaded eyebrows at the beaded sweaters of the Holidays, but after visiting the site of the Leslie Hall, the Tia recognizes True Art when she sees it.

The Tia encourages the Leda Horticulture to bring the Bird Flu sweater and the Tax Season sweater to magnificent reality. Perhaps the Leslie Hall can collaborate with the Leda.

]]> By: meep http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12197 meep Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:53:50 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12197 willow, I feel your pain. My mother has been wearing holiday sweaters for some time. She's got a halloween one (which she also wears to Clemson games) and quite a few Christmas ones. I think she buys them at the mall the day after Christmas, when they're marked down 80%. willow, I feel your pain. My mother has been wearing holiday sweaters for some time. She’s got a halloween one (which she also wears to Clemson games) and quite a few Christmas ones. I think she buys them at the mall the day after Christmas, when they’re marked down 80%.

]]> By: Sonja http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12196 Sonja Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:38:23 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12196 Almost as bad as HSN's Storybook Knits. Almost as bad as HSN’s Storybook Knits.

]]> By: Muffy Wong http://shoeblogs.com/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12154 Muffy Wong Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:25:33 +0000 http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/10/12/the-holiday-sweater/#comment-12154 If anything these sweaters make Thanksgiving and the Holidays with the fiance's family SO much less painful. If anything these sweaters make Thanksgiving and the Holidays with the fiance’s family SO much less painful.

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