National Ugly Sweater Day

Name: National Ugly Sweater Day
Start: 2026-12-18
End: 2026-12-18

Friday, December 18, 2026

The uglier the better. The point is the wearing.

National Ugly Sweater Day is observed on the third Friday of December. The ugly Christmas sweater went from sincere knitwear to ironic party theme over the course of the 2000s, driven partly by a Canadian film festival dedicated to them and partly by the inevitable trajectory of sincerity into kitsc