Bad Holiday Sweaters

Our friends Simon and Lindsey celebrated the season with a "Bad Sweater Party". Prizes were awarded for "tightest fitting", "best holiday spirit", "so ugly it's cool", and "overall most hideous". We later learned the Simon had designed the categories around his outfits. (He had several.) But being the host, he wasn't eligible to win.

Our problem was that when we have "bad" clothes like that, we generally donate them. I mean, why hold on to something like that? But of course, now we know why. We happened to be in Portland a few days before and so we stopped by the Good Will "Super Store" to see what we could find. Mike and I each found something but we were surprised at how little they had for holiday attire. Other folks at the party had shopped in The Dalles and apparently that store was a gold mine. I guess Portland has too many shoppers wiping out the supply.

A fun activity at the party was a Polaroid photo booth, complete with photographer, designed like a police mug shot. (Too bad the sign is covering up my hideous holiday sweatshirt: a polar bear decked out with 80s black sunglasses, holly, and rhinestones.)

We didn't win any prizes, and that was just fine by us.

- Corinne, Mike, and Anders Rocket

Date: December 13th, 2009