Blame hipsters if you're forced to wear a gross Xmas sweater this year

Not long ago it was only your grandparents who'd dare step out wearing an ugly Christmas sweater. But knitwear festooned with snowflakes, reindeer and pine trees is reportedly fashionable again thanks to (who else?) hipsters. Although "Ugly Christmas sweater" parties have been popular with youngsters for years, residents of hipster enclaves such as Portland, Ore., and Williamsburg, N.Y., have "definitely helped" push the fashion style into the mainstream, according to Adam Paulson, who runs an ugly Christmas sweaters site. But author Jonathan D. Fitzgerald believes the sweaters have made a comeback because deep down those who wear them just want to wrap themselves in old-fashioned Christmas spirit. Aww. [Source]

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