Decked Out and Ready to Sleigh (Slay): 
The History of the Holiday Sweater

EPISODE NOTES: It's not the holiday season without a tacky and over-the-top sweater! This episode will examine how the popular festive garment came to be. Support us at :https://www.patreon.com/historyunhemmedhttps://anchor.fm/historyunhemmed/support Follow us on: Instagram: @history_unhemmed Facebook: History Unhemmed Thank you! <3 Resources: Blackman, Anne Marie, and Brian Clark Howard. Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2012. Garber, Megan. “The Ugly Christmas Sweater: Still Ugly, But No Longer Ironic.” The Atlantic, 9 December 2014. Harris, Moira. “The Ugly Christmas Sweater.” Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Volume 3. Phyllis G. Tortora (ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2010. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad. “A Louse in Court: Norwegian Knitted Sweaters with ‘Lus’ On Big-Time Criminals.” Fashion Crimes: Dressing for Deviance. Joanne Turney (ed.). London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Miller, Brian, Adam Paulson, and Kevin Wool. Ugly Christmas Sweater Book: The Definitive Guide to Getting Your Ugly On. New York: Abrams Image, 2011.