My bedroom in my parents' house is a shrine to my childhood. It contains a pretty solid collection of young adult female fiction (read: NOT Twlight, I'm too old for that crap. I read the Princess Diaries and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, thankyouverymuch), teen magazines I can't bare to throw away (miss you YM!), some handkerchief curtains (future post? they're pretty rad), collage of places I wanted to go before I went anywhere on my closet door, and my various collections (owls, shot glasses, tiny bottles, candles). But perhaps my favorite collection of all is...my ugly sweater collection!
Thought this blog was all movie stills and runway shots? You were wrong, y'all. Very wrong. Now, for your viewing pleasure, my ugly sweater collection shot via webcam!
I call this one Rainbow magic. Thrifted from Village Thrift, Pennsauken, NJ. Perfect for when you're feeling fancy.
Are rainbow sequins too much for you? Fine, then how about gold and silver sequins in a wave/lightening bolt pattern? Thrifted at Village Thrift in Pennsauken, NJ.
I call this one the Molly Ringwald. Very Sixteen Candles. Due to the nature of crappy nature of webcam photos, the exact off-shades of ugly pastel purple and pink are lost to the viewer. However, I challenge you to find ANYTHING that will exactly match these shades. 
If I EVER go to a Sixers game, I have a sweater just for the occasion. Because I went to school in Boston and I'm probably moving to New York and I actually don't really care about basketball, this one's staying in the closet. But when the Sixers occasion finally happens, I'm totally prepared. I forget where I thrifted this one.
FINALLY - I can be the token Jew at an Ugly Sweater Christmas party! Kind of like in kindergarten when everyone decorated green and red Christmas ornaments, and I decorated the lone dark blue one in the package. I didn't even have anywhere to hang it! Mom still loved it though! Haha! Also, a back view:
Gotta love that twist! Thrifted in Paris, France. My host mother washed this, and I'm sure she added this to the list of reasons why she thought I was weird.
This one's not too special, but I call it the Denise Cosby. I also have a matching sweater skirt to match!
Last, but not least, we have this beauty. Hot pink sweater with black bows and dangly black beads sewn on. Again, I have to point out that a webcam does not translate to how amazing this sweater really is. I found this last year at Beacon's Closet in Williamsburg. When I saw it, it was instant love and I knew I could not leave this behind. I need to wear this one out soon, for the sake of humanity. See you in September, sweater.
Those are some really ugly sweater, and they are PERFECT! I just showed them to a friend of mine and his reply was “stinkingly amazing!!”. We also dressed up in ugly sweaters that we got from one of the clothing venues in Chicago. It’s was a really fun experience!
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