5 Over 50 Challenge: Christmas Jumpers

Christmas jumpers tend to be associated with the brazen, colourful Father Christmas embellished affairs with flashing lights, but they come in four different varieties. Laurie's challenge for the 5 0ver 50 for December is styling a Christmas jumper and it's interesting to see that three of the boxes are ticked. Fortunately no-one chose to wear the overtly ugly version of a Christmas jumper!

So what are the four flavours of a Christmas jumper? Well, if you think of it as "a jumper for Christmas" it makes sense to consider that an apres-ski winter jumper, similar to Hilda's, is an appropriate candidate. 

Then there is a true Christmas jumper, albeit a little more subtle, like mine and Anna's.  We both have "Christmas trimmings" but the jumper is suitably muted enough to be safely worn in a "normal" outfit. There's also a trend for "ugly" Christmas jumpers but we won't cover those. 

Finally there is a jumper which is embellished with glitter or gold threads, like Jacqui's, and Laurie has appropriated this category too by pairing a plain jumper with a spectacular necklace.

My jumper is from Boden at John Lewis and I paired it with a red tartan skirt from last winter, pearls and over-the-knee boots. This lends a bit of glamour and creates a comfortable, festive outfit ideal for Christmas Day.

My Christmas tree takes about two minutes to put up: it pops out of a box. I'm all for trying to make Christmas less like hard work, and for me, unless you have children at home, putting up and decorating a full blown tree is hard work!

This is my last 5 0ver 50 Challenge. I started the challenge a year ago, to try to showcase that women over the age of 50 are still experimenters and fashion-forward. We aren't all ready to embrace elasticated waists and fllat lace-up shoes. I think the series has proved this in spades!  The other ladies will continue the challenges and I look forward to seeing who will join them.

I'm going to be dialling down some of my blogger activities in 2018. I'll explain why in a separate post. I'll still be blogging, but not so frequently.

Now let's see how the other challenge members fared with their Christmas jumpers.

It takes a stylist with the mastery of Anna from Anna's Island Fashion to take a traditional Christmas jumper and create a fashionable, funky outfit with a gorgeous midi length print skirt (and winter florals are very original),  patterned tights and glittery ankle boots. Full marks to Anna for pulling off such a fabulous look.

Laurie from Vanity and Me epitomises glamour in this gorgeous deep red jumper with sensational Christmas tree gold collar and on-trend pleated midi skirt. You could easily wear this outfit to any top drawer festive event. Laurie proves that red is a colour that suits everyone - the deeper claret colour really suits her.

Hilda from Over The Hilda  is wearing a Swiss skiing holiday inspired jumper (perfectly matched by her grandson) which is a stylish and cosy solution for those who don't like Christmas jumpers.

Jacqui from Mummabstylish borrowed a gold sequinned jumper from one of her daughters and paired it with a gold pleated skirt to create a glamorous look.

All that remains is to wish all of you a peaceful and joyous Christmas and Happy New Year.

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