9 Warm, Cozy Facts About Sweaters
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
'Tis the season for knitwear! So we’re celebrating sweaters of all shapes and sizes. Did you know that the ugly Christmas sweater trend got its start over a hundred years ago? Or that American soldiers in WWI had beef with amateur knitters? We cover all that and more, including the most expensive sweater ever sold and delightful facts about sweater-loving celebrities like Mr. Rogers, Weezer, and… Sting? Look, if this episode doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies, we don’t know what will.
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| 0:41.7 | Guess what, Will? |
| 0:43.0 | What's that, Mango? |
| 0:44.1 | So you've probably noticed that ugly Christmas sweaters have become big business over the last decade, |
| 0:49.6 | with some companies raking in as much as $5 million each year from kitschy knitwear. |
| 0:56.1 | But do you know that the sweaters also have their very own holiday? |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, I think they call it Christmas, right? |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, but a truly garish sweater deserves to be seen more than at least one day a year. |
| 1:09.4 | And that's why, ever since 2011, the third Friday |
| 1:13.1 | in December has been set aside as National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day. The practice |
| 1:18.6 | started here in the U.S., but it's now celebrated by the fashionably unfashionable all across the |
| 1:24.0 | world. Some people mark the day by running a charity race, throwing a party, or |
| 1:28.9 | organizing a pub crawl, but you can really celebrate however you want, provide, of course, |
| 1:34.0 | you also do it while wearing a chunky, cheerful sweater. You know, when this whole thing |
| 1:39.7 | started with the ugly and ridiculous Christmas sweaters, I have to admit, I didn't see it having |
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