With friends or in the office, this year you will certainly not cut the collective challenge of the 'ugly Christmas sweater'. The idea? Wear the most kitsch sweater possible and dazzle the eyes of his challenging acolytes. Before being an XXL joke, the Christmas sweater is above all a family and friendly tradition that plunges us completely into the atmosphere of the holiday season.

Where does the tradition come from?

If the custom takes place slowly in France, beyond our borders, it is very popular. The proof ? Since 2011, the Christmas sweater on its own international day . The date varies, but the day is, in general, in the last days of the ^3rd week of December. And it is the Anglo-Saxon tradition that we owe this celebration ... Moreover, the cinema gives us good examples: the Christmas sweater of Ron Weasley in "Harry Potter at the school of wizards ", for example, and most importantly, the most cultured, the pull of Mark Darcy in" The Diary of Bridget Jones " .

Ugly sweater vs. Christmas sweater

And if we are happy to find the ugly Christmas sweater possible to laugh with his friends / colleagues, the tradition does not logically associate 'ugly' and 'Christmas sweater'. Nothing prevents us to wear a gun pull and not ridiculous. Moreover, when we received, at Christmas, a sweater that a grandmother or aunt had been knitting for days , we did not really laugh and put on her sweater without flinching. Today, we allow ourselves jokes ... but nothing prevents us from driving mechanics in a hot and trendy model!

Discover below 8 Christmas sweaters we would love to wear!