December 22, 2011  Double Jeopardy Round 
Category: Fleece Navidad, $1200 question

Answer: What is Vermont!

"Anne Marie Blackman is on the front lines of the zany trend. The Vermont author of "Rock Your Ugly Christmas Sweater" started selling the sweaters as costumes on eBay four years ago. She said her business "just took off. Like, crazy took off." This year alone, she said her website, MyUglyChristmasSweater.com, has quadrupled its traffic.  It's also expanded to include, yup, ugly Hanukkah Sweaters." 

12/16/2011 Watch the Fox & Friends video:   Fox News Fox & Friends. Website Sells Ugly Christmas Sweaters. Business booming for stay-at-home mom. 
     

12/20/2011 Anne Marie Blackman speaks to NPR National Public Radio about her ugly Christmas sweater business during their morning edition business segment.  
 

12/21/2011 Bundled Up In Ugly For Christmas - Anne Marie Blackman from Killington Vermont poses in front of her 'Ugly Christmas Sweaters' on display in downtown Woodstock.

"Ugly sweater parties have become all the rage around the U.S., and leave it to thrifty Killington mom turned ugly sweater entrepreneur, Anne Marie Blackman, to jump on the trend...."I saw some on eBay, but I thought these could be way uglier," said Blackman. "

12/19/2011 News anchor Rob Cardwell from WTVR Richmond Virginia wears an ugly Christmas sweater from My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc.  

The Rosie Show
Rosie O'Donnell
2011

12/16/2011 Sweaters from My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. were worn by Rosie O'Donnell and her crew on The Rosie Show "Rosie's Crafty Christmas". 
 

Photo: The Rosie Show, 12/16/2011 "It's a Crafty Christmas" 

12/6/2011 The cast of The Chew wore sweaters from My Ugly Christmas Sweater for their holiday episode with Jimmy Fallon.    


Photo: The Chew, 12/6/2011 

12/8/2011 YouTube ABC News Anne Marie Blackman Makes the Tackiest Christmas Sweaters Ever.


ABC News blog The Craze Behind That Ugly Christmas Sweater

12/9/2011 David Wright examines the ugly Christmas sweater trend. Good Morning America Christmas Sweater Madness: Fad Returns "Anne Marie Blackman is kind of the Martha Stewart of these things!"

12/10/2011 FoxNews.com Woman Turns Ugly Christmas Sweaters into Booming Business. 

"What started as a small home-based business evolved into a warehouse filled with fringe, lights, jingle bells, and whatever else you can think of. Her unsightly sweaters sip out in the thousands through her website myuglychristmassweater.com."

12/19/2011 Ugly Holiday Sweaters in high demand in New York as popularity for theme parties rise.

Los Angeles Guest of a Guest
2011

12/15/2011 The Hanukkah sweater! ...Tips to Stepping Up Your Ugly Holiday Sweater Game
 
Photo: Guest of a Guest, 12/15/2011

11/21/2011 PrWeb The Number One Christmas Gift is Ugly, and My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc. is Ready To Deliver 

"With an established track record of producing seriously ugly sweaters, My Ugly Christmas Sweater has established itself as the 'Holy Grail of Tacky' in the ugly Christmas sweater world, and their 2011 sweater collections are packed with hideously ugly potential contest winners."

Tendecias Fashion Magazine Spain
2011

Rachel Dodes featured MyUglyChristmasSweater.com in the Wall Street Journal article titled "Sweaters: Frightful or Festive?" 12/22/10
"The website myuglychristmassweater.com boasts a "contest winning" collection of "hideously ugly" sweaters."

Alex Gilman was psyched to find our awesome selection of tacky Hanukkah sweaters and wrote about his find in his Guest of a Guest Hanukkah Sweater article 12/22/10.

Three tacky photos from My Ugly Christmas Sweater were front and center in the Los Angeles Times article  " Irony Gone Too Far. Ugly Christmas Sweaters Gain Popularity." 12/12/10
"Looking to score an ugly Christmas sweater this year? Arguably the best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint) examples are on the website myuglychristmassweater.com, where fringe Santas and stuffed reindeer go to die."

Four photos of customers proudly wearing their sweaters from MyUglyChristmasSweater.com were featured in the NY Times article  "Extreme Holiday Sweaters" 12/30/10   

The height of fashion blogger Coco Perez  features My Ugly Christmas Sweater in his article "Ugly Christmas Sweaters are all the Rage for the Holidays" 12/24/10.
...There's even one seller that dedicates her entire eBay store to [holiday sweaters]! Appropriately titled My Ugly Christmas Sweater, offers an array of sweaters that light up, sparkle, and make you go "eww".  

Brian Clark Howard is a big fan of My Ugly Christmas Sweater, and repeatedly featured our sweaters, dresses, and jackets in The Daily Green articles, including one titled "Ugly Christmas Sweaters for Men"  

Uri Freeman's Atlantic Wire article "What Explains the Rise of Ugly Christmas Sweaters?"  notes that people need not look further then My Ugly Christmas Sweater to find their answer!

Sonya Sorich's 12/16/10 article about My Ugly Christmas Sweater (Ledger Enquirer ) is aptly titled "Ugly Christmas Sweaters: Bring on the Fringe and Tassels!"

See photos of "Our Favorite Ugly Christmas Sweaters" in Parenting Online Magazine 2010 Holiday Edition.

The Art Institute (Ai insite) interviewed us here at My Ugly Christmas Sweater for their 11/26/10 article.
"Anne Marie Blackman, president of My Ugly Christmas Sweater, Inc., says that adding an ugly Christmas sweater theme to a holiday party makes it more fun and exciting."

Jack Thurston from WCAX television in Burlington VT visited My Ugly Christmas Sweater for an on-air interview on 11/26/10.

My Ugly Christmas Sweater founder Anne Marie Blackman (and three customers!) participated in an "Ugly Christmas Sweater" fashion show on ABC's The View 12/24/09!