Christmas Day ’fit debate: Are you team dress up or comfies all the way?
Christmas traditions differ from family to family, perhaps none more so than what exactly you're wearing come Christmas day. Are you dressing to the nines or kicking it in your comfies? Here, two writers share their families’ holiday wardrobe traditions in what we're calling the great Christmas Day 'fit debate.
"We love to dress up!"
Donning the paper crown from your Christmas cracker is mandatory, as far as I’m concerned. But, for my family, that only scratches the surface of the Christmas Day fashion stakes. Sure, we’ll start the day opening presents in our pyjamas, breakfast taking the form of a box of chocolates (usually Celebrations) passed around the room amid piles of discarded wrapping paper. However, when chef – aka mum – gives the call of one hour ’til lunch, everyone goes up to change.
Makeup bags and curling wands are broken out, party dresses and heels pulled out of the wardrobe. Even my grandma, who descends on Christmas morning in a luxe knit cardigan paired with a swishing midi skirt, will go and change into her ‘party dress’ for dinner. Christmas is a special occasion, after all, and it deserves a wardrobe to match. Once the last profiterole has been eaten, it’s back to elasticated waists and slippers. Though maybe still with a now crumpled paper crown still perched on our heads.
-Alexandria Dale, Fashion Writer
"We keep it cosy and casual!"
My sequinned skirt and velvet mini stay buried deep in my wardrobe on Christmas Day. When I wake up, the first thing I reach for is, at my absolute dressiest, a hoodie, jersey pyjama bottoms and a Santa hat. The Todds have always been a casual bunch, and to change that would be taboo.
In our cosy, minimal-frills version of the ‘most festive day of the year’, I am almost unrecognisable to those who know how otherwise overjoyed I am at hearing an event has a dress code. I love the duality of obsessing over the New-In section at Mango for my day-to-day, and then reverting to dressing like a moody teenager the second I walk into my childhood home. I get to indulge in the most relaxed part of myself, and it’s my favourite time of the year.
But, that being said... maybe it’s because we don’t take any family photos on Christmas Day?
-Angel Cordova-Todd, Fashion Assistant
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