The holiday sweater

Hello everyone and happy Monday! Are you into holiday sweaters?

Although we are not yet past Thanksgiving, the retail and fashion business have been into holiday mode for almost a couple of weeks. Enter the reign of the holiday sweater, which is always featured around this time of the year. I am generally not one of the followers of this trend, because I find that the holiday sweater brings about the much-laughed-about stereotype of a knit hand made with good intentions, but impossibly ugly (remember the movie Bridget Jones Diary, just to cite one?). Going through Net-a-Porter's selection for this year, I fell in love with one though: Phillip Lim's snowflake embellished wool sweater (pictured above), which has the right amount of sparkle but is subdued enough for my taste. Then again, with a price tag of almost 500$, is it the piece you would invest in for the holiday season?