Tradition Meets Technology: the Christmas Jumpers of 2013
Christmas jumpers – one of the most controversial fashion items that comes out around the festive period in an attempt to spread some Christmas cheer around the workplace or just to keep you warm while wearing something of a novelty item.
Traditionally knitted but in the mass market made from wool, these jumpers tend to have a festive design featuring anything from penguins and reindeer to snowy scenes and decorated trees which leaves people scratching their heads trying to decide whether they’re the “in thing” and therefore on the cool list, or so novelty that they’re rubbish and on the “I’m never wearing one of those list.”
If you’re the kind of person in favour of the Christmas jumper, happy to get into the Christmas spirit and to show off a sense of fun (no matter how many people laugh at your jumper), then the biggest issue you might have is when to start wearing it. Some people reach for the sweater too early and by the time of the main event you’ve been wearing it so long it’s no longer novelty and more like your first-choice winter jumper. To try and keep things fresh – and also to make a real stir at your office party – it might be worth looking into a Christmas jumper unlike any of the others you can find on the high street, in the form of the knitted crackling fireplace jumper from the range of Morphsuits Christmas jumpers. This sweater is a modern take on the traditional jumper, and even incorporates some of the latest technologies into the garment.
Some workplaces encourage their staff to wear Christmas jumpers to try and get everyone into the festive spirit. Others are filled with them on dress-down Friday’s and you just can’t deny that they do work. People feel much more “Christmassy” when they’re wearing their favourite jumper, but some just can’t see past the embarrassment factor of being a grown adult wearing a knitted sweater with the picture of a penguin across the front. That’s what makes the Morphsuits range so cool – well, that and the fact that you connect your smartphone to them to create something you’d expect to see on a Hollywood film set…on your own chest!
How does it work?
Don’t worry, just because it involves technology doesn’t mean you have to stay within six-feet of a plug socket all day in order to make it work. Just about everyone these days has a smartphone of some kind, whether it’s an iPhone, BlackBerry or Samsung Galaxy, we’re all walking around with one in our hand or pocket. This jumper, developed by Digital Dudz, comes with a pouch on the inside where you insert your phone and open the free-to-download app and then you just let it play.
You’ll soon be walking around with a realistic, crackling fireplace across the front of your Christmas jumper to give you the festive feeling with all the traditions of the time of year, combined with the modern technology for the smartphone generation.
