UglyChristmasSweater.Com is founded adding momentum to the steady rise toward mainstream popularity. Soon other competitors followed, making ugly sweaters easily accessible and once again mass-produced to brighten the season.
The first known “ugly-sweater” party is thrown in Vancouver, Canada to raise money for a friend’s cancer treatment. In the years that followed, this party became an annual shindig raising thousands of dollars for The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada and inspiring similar celebrations around the world.
Jingle-bell sweaters reached a peak when displayed on the whole family during National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Soon after, it seemed ugly sweaters were a thing of the past.
The first “ugly sweater” is made under the name “jingle-bell sweaters.” These sweaters are made wildly popular on a family sitcom where the patriarch of the family wears vivid, outlandish versions each episode.
