Baby, it's cold outside, so it's time to deck the halls with boughs of holly, get some chestnuts roasting on an open fire, and dust off that unsightly sweater because it's National Ugly Christmas ...

For decades, people have been receiving ugly sweaters from well-meaning gift givers, and are sometimes forced to wear them to avoid offending the person who may have even knitted it for them.

Over the last decade the ugly Christmas sweater has firmly embedded itself in yuletide culture. You know the one. It’s a wooly pullover, usually in different shades of red, white and green ...