Do you want to be like Bad Sweater Guy? Of course you do. Silly question. Two Chicago entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to help the sweater-deficient members of our society by opening a store that sells only Bad Sweaters. If you're heading to a Bad Sweater Party, the Ugly Sweater Store will hook you up. Most of them seem to be holiday-themed and fairly reasonably priced ($20-$25). So if you're tired of rooting around the bargain bins at Goodwill or, you know, going to Sears, the Ugly Sweater Store might be your best best. Tell them Bad Sweater Guy sent you.
The story
- Not so long ago, my friend Kevin cleaned out his wardrobe, which, due to his pack rat nature, was crammed with clothes he hadn't worn in more than a decade. Among the discarded were 25 sweaters that can generously be described as "hideous." Or, as one critic put it, "Bill Cosby would not wear this." Kevin's defense? "I worked at Marshalls in North Olmsted, Ohio, during high school and got a 15 percent discount. It was cold. It was the late '80s." The horror, the horror. Click here to see them, but be warned. Your eyes. The burning.
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Stars upon thars
Drew writes in: "My girlfriend, Erika, and I went to a 'Bad Christmas Sweater
Party' two years ago. We had only been on three dates prior, so kudos
to her for being a sport." Wow, she is a keeper -- with a ribbon on top. We were wondering what this picture reminded us of, and then it hit us:
There can be love between plain-bellyed and star-bellyed sneetches.
There can be love between plain-bellyed and star-bellyed sneetches.
We declare the 2008 Bad Sweater Season officially open
Flynn, a fan and friend of Bad Sweater Guy, kicks off the 2008 Bad Sweater Season with his "Little House on the Scary" offering. It looks like the Schoolhouse Rock version of what happens after the glaciers melt and submerge us all under a few hundred feet of water.
Do you have a Bad Sweater? Do you know someone who does? Of course you do. Send it to [email protected] and we'll put it up here for the world to mock. We'll take pictures of sweaters found in the wild or photos from your Bad Sweater Parties. Let's get cracking, people. There are a lot of Bad Sweaters out there, and we need you to help us bring them to justice.