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Owning a Christmas jumper is the easy part. Wearing one well is a craft, and after more than a decade of doing this we have opinions – about sizing, about washing, about how long you can reasonably keep the thing on, and about what to do when you and a colleague turn up in the same reindeer.
This is where we put the advice. How to work out whether a novelty knit will run a size small before you commit to it. Why you should never, under any circumstances, put a sequinned jumper through a hot wash. How to layer a thin knit so you survive a warm pub. When to deploy the light-up one and when to leave it at home. What to do with the whole collection come January.
None of it is complicated and none of it is serious, but every bit of it comes from having got it wrong at least once ourselves. Read it before you buy rather than after, and you will get more Decembers out of the same jumper.
