• As Christmas approaches, at the office or with the family, the ugly sweater is back and will sting the eyes.

  • In Albi, this Saturday, for the fifth year, the world champion of the ugly sweater will be designated.

  • To win, you have to be a fan of kitsch, color, hideous patterns and have a certain sense of self-deprecation.

    The mullet cut to accompany the sweater is a plus.

In recent years, the French have adopted the very British tradition of the “Ugly Christmas Sweater”, parading around the office with deer heads on a red background affixed to their superb acrylic knits.

A basic trend for the ugly sweater that excites every year fans of schoolboy humor, gathered at the Albi Exhibition Center to award the title of world champion.

This weekend, these crazy kitsch knitwear, masters of

second degree, are found again in the city of Tarn to designate the sweater of the worst taste, in a school atmosphere at will.

To win the title, you must not be content to go on stage with a Christmas sweater ordered on the Internet, but to have put your heart in the customization or the realization of your unique sweater.

Obviously very subjective criteria

“What matters is the creativity that people were able to put into it, this mixture of colors, bad taste, graphics. I remember during the first edition, a kind of hunting sweater with a deer and colors. These criteria are absolutely not objective, but totally subjective. The character who wears the sweater also counts, he must have a certain charisma, just like the applaudimeter, ”explains Christophe Cousse, one of the members of the jury who received more than 250 applications.

He knows a lot about the question. Because it is from this Tarnais that the idea of ​​a contest started, or rather of his sweaters that one of his friends considered ugly. “The big joke has become a championship. It happened that people, who did not have sufficient perspective, laughed at us, but us, it allowed us to live great moments. Like these five grandmothers over 90 years old in nursing homes who for three to four months started to knit again, went on stage in a wheelchair. They were on cloud nine, happy, we said to ourselves that we had won, ”continues the one who wants to breathe a little lightness and good humor with this meeting in this gloomy period.

A spatiotemporal rift in which many candidates rush, plotting the best way to win.

Some dig into their trunks and add fluff to their old vintage sweatshirts, others take the challenge to the point of electrifying them, resembling Christmas trees on legs.

From industrial to knitting

Fans have even created two- or even five-seater sweaters.

Others have passed the course and decided to start knitting to make the ugliest sweater possible.

This is the case with Jérôme Viau.

Originally from Saumur, this champion of the championship did not hesitate to train in the art of handling the needles.

He already had a certain taste for kitsch, since every year in December, with his fellow taxis, he puts on a Christmas sweater, just to put on a little cheerfulness. But after having unearthed a painting of Grendizer, he decided to reproduce himself the head of the robot of Actarus. “I watched videos on YouTube, I took lessons. I do not very pretty sweaters, Grendizer's one has badly made teeth. But who cares, the main thing is to have fun, to want to start from an image and transcribe it in a sweater, ”assures this candidate. And he does not save himself, when he takes about thirty hours to make a classic sweater, he needs about fifty to compose his ugly creations.

He even went so far as to reproduce the “tapestry” sweater which appears on the poster for the world championship.

For him, the key to success is to afford a good slice of self-mockery.

And an ugly sweater can win the palm "because it has been knitted and you can't find it anywhere else", assures Jerome who is showing up this year solo, but also in duet with his sister and her sweater " hideous purple ”.

If you add a mullet cut and a custom mask to your knitting, victory is certainly within reach.

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