The Ugly Christmas Sweater: From ironic nostalgia to festive simulation The Ugly Christmas Sweater is a cultural symbol that brings happiness to all ages and gives personal, familial warmth to those during the Christmas season. The Christmas season nowadays is one of the most busy and stressful times of year in terms of financial and emotional stress. The Ugly Christmas Sweater parties may offer an escape from the holiday stress. The best part about the Ugly Christmas Sweater parties though is it brings people of many backgrounds together and all tensions at that moment are absent. The Atlantic goes on to say that, “the Ugly Christmas Sweater is awesome in its terribleness, and is a blissfully demilitarized zone.” National ugly Christmas Sweater day on December 15th every year, but has only gotten popular recently worldwide in 2015. The Ugly Christmas Sweater originated in Vancouver, Canada in 2001. Now in terms of the Ugly Christmas Sweater being a festive simulation, it for some may give a false sense of happiness during this time of year. George Ritzer says that simulation can become a ripe target for corporatization as it can be made more spectacular than its authentic counterparts. What they are saying is that this is not necessarily the real deal for all and that it is fake for many. Many people get …show more content…
Ugly Christmas Sweaters were not just made in one day for society making clothes originally to protect themselves from the environment. Over time clothes changed over time to be more fashionable for people to wear since people started caring about how they look. The best part about the Ugly Christmas Sweater is that people don’t care about it being fashionable. The Ugly Christmas Sweater is usually something you only see during the holiday season. It’s a symbol of being fun and goofy but let’s society know that the Christmas season is coming