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Tacky Christmas Sweater #9: "Let's get physical, physical!"

Added by admin on December 11th, 2008, filed under Culture, Miscellaneous

As the woman who pulled the short straw in our equal-opportunity Firm Santa drawing, it’s clear that Laura has a long way to go if she’s going to make it up to the mandatory Claus weight by Christmas. As you can see from the suspenders, last year’s Santa, Dennis, did us proud ballooning up for [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #8: "Feline gift wrapping never quite caught on"

Added by admin on December 10th, 2008, filed under Culture, Miscellaneous

Accountancy is a second career for Pam. Previously she was founder and CEO of Collar & Leash Resources, an outsourcing agency that specialized in enlisting household pets for repetitive, light industrial tasks. After initial successes training dogs to sort recyclables and parakeets to stuff envelopes, the firm went bankrupt with a failed $26 million initiative [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #7: "Inciting a riot is easier than you think"

Added by admin on December 9th, 2008, filed under Culture, Miscellaneous

Here’s one for you history buffs: the last surviving garments made by Donna Karanina, the Mad Seamstress of St. Petersburg. These sweaters caused a riot when they were debuted in Moscow in 1622, during which the city was burned to the ground. Karanina fled with them to the more artistically enlightened city of Amsterdam, where [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #6: "A journey of self-discovery"

Added by admin on December 8th, 2008, filed under Culture, Marketing

It was Sigmund Freud who famously wrote that all of us have an inner “Christmas elf” personality that we learn from early childhood to suppress. Happily, after decades of analysis in this very couch, Mel was finally able to get back in touch with hers. Here she reenacts the blissful moment of awakening, when she [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #5: "No words can tame this image"

Added by Katy Miller on December 5th, 2008, filed under Culture, Miscellaneous

Our resident thespians, Jonathan and Brandon, weren’t here for our photo shoot this week. Luckily we were able to substitute this publicity shot for their two-man Christmas sweater-themed production of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, which debuted off Broadway last year. The triumphant run followed their less-well-received interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, in which Jonathan [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #4: "You decorated my life"

Added by admin on December 4th, 2008, filed under Culture, Miscellaneous

Sometimes a sweater is simply a piece of clothing for its owner. Other times it becomes an entire organizing principle. So it was for Luke before this cardigan entered his life. “I was lost,” he said one recent morning. “But then the sweater came, and it’s given me purpose and direction. I was so stressed [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #3: "World Record Setting"

Added by admin on December 3rd, 2008, filed under Culture

Though this sweater may look as though it was acquired for three dollars on Ebay, Jacky actually won it, having come in first in the 2008 Annual Snow Mirth & Merriment Competition, held each winter near Nome, Alaska. The competition comprises a variety of demanding snow and ice sculptural events, including Snowball & Fort and [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #2: For the "athletic" lady

Added by admin on December 2nd, 2008, filed under Culture

As CurrentMarketing’s resident athlete (in fact she’s currently training for the Arizona Marathon), Lindsay never fails to acquire the latest pieces of Olympic-grade training gear. Case-in-point: this bright red vest she has on, which isn’t a sweater at all. Rather, it’s the just-released prototype “Reindeer” runner’s exoskeleton by Menschner Athletics of Helsinki. The brilliant crimson [...]

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Tacky Christmas Sweater #1: "Milan-worthy"

Added by admin on December 1st, 2008, filed under Culture

Kati keeps telling everyone she’s embarrassed by this photograph, and we can certainly understand why. The camera angle doesn’t capture even half the detail of the priceless designer sweater she’s wearing. Imagine if you can the heartbreak of traveling all the way to Milan to acquire this one-of-a-kind Susan Rosen sweater-vest, only to have it [...]

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