In true selfless form, you’ve been so busy buying weird stuff for other people that you’ve neglected your own needs for this month’s holiday-party circuit—everything from a sweater to a smoking tuxedo suit should probably happen, stat. Here, let us help.
This year, your style icon for the holiday-party circuit is... Charlie Brown. Okay, maybe not, but this zigzag crewneck from Scotland does have a bit of a Charlie Brown Christmas vibe. And buying a $255 sweater is the best way to rail against the over-commercialization of the holidays.
If the invite you’re holding mentions cigars, great news—sounds like a reason to get yourself a satin-accented smoking tuxedo suit. It’s like a smoking jacket, but with pants. Pants are generally a good idea for party attire. At least at first.
Okay, okay. At some point you’ll need to put on something that’s red, maybe this A.P.C. red wool felt tie, and just embrace it. Eggnog and mistletoe and Kelly Clarkson’s new Christmas album and red ties—all of it. Or just the red-tie part. Your call.
First you’ve got to look good while chopping down a festive tree. Then an hour later you’ve got to look good standing around in somebody’s living room with a toddy and maybe putting an ornament on that tree. Here, have a fitted wool shirt jacket from the Woolrich archives. All set.
Maybe you’re nowhere near a tree covered in tinsel. Maybe you’d still like to smell like one. Technically, Big Sur’s Backpacker’s Cologne smells a bit more like redwoods and the sea than pine and tinsel, but on second thought, smelling like tinsel would be kind of weird.
