A reader has several questions about a holiday tradition.
Should we participate in the ugly Christmas sweater phenomenon? And why do people even call them “ugly”? When I was growing up in the South, there were just people who wore festive Christmas sweaters and those who didn’t. Now they are like a trend to monetize and then discard. What happened? — Kristen, Charleston, S.C.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but then so is its opposite. One person’s ugly Christmas sweater may be another person’s charming nod to the holidays.
It is also true that a better word for the spectacle you are referring to may be “kitschy holiday
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