Getting ready for an ugly sweater party is easy.
Step 1: Find an ugly sweater.
Look to the lower end stores in your area, like JC Penney, Kmart or Sears. A consignment store, like a Salvation Army outlet, is good too. Look for most painful sweater you can find. Think cats pawing at snowflakes and overly cute Christmas bears doing lame things. Sweaters that button in the front are great. Don't pay a lot for this, cause of our next step.
Step 2: Modify the shirt to make it epic.
OK, you have your ugly Christmas sweater. Time to take it to the next level. You really have three options: lights, wreathes or a bow. The best way to upgrade your garment is to wire a string of lights into the sweater and make them battery powered. Flashing multi-colored lights are better.
Another option is to buy a real wreath and attach it to the back of your sweater. Your last option is adding a big bow, with some kind of flourish of sparkle or garland to add effect. To achieve the holy trinity at Christmas, modify your sweater with all three: a wreath and a box and lights!
Step 3: Add a cape.
The bigger the better. Every Christmas party needs a dude in a cape.
Step 4: Add th
e props.
Nothing adds to your sweater more than a prop. Have an sweater with kittens playing in snow? Carry around a stuff kitten or puppy. Can't hurt with the ladies.
Step 5: Get the pose ready.
Any self-respecting ugly Christmas sweater party will have a photo op wall on the way in, to take a picture of all the great sweaters being worn. Go to the mirror in your bathroom and practice your pose for this photo. Play up whatever theme you are working in your sweater, and be ready to nail the pose at photo time.
Step 6: Party!
Can't find the perfect ugly Christmas sweater? Check out the epic one we designed. We also had loads of funny Christmas shirts.
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