Around Christmas time I saw about a million ads for a product called the snuggie. The snuggie is a one-size-fits-all fleecy backwards robe that is to be used in lieu of a blanket. Wha? Exactly. If you are that concerned about keeping your arms warm while watching TV, turn up the heat in your house. This thing comes in some hideously ugly colors too. I was amazed by this thing. It seemed the exact thing unsuspecting grandmothers would buy their single granddaughters for Christmas to keep them warm while they stayed in every watching TV and reading novels. You know, what grandmothers think their granddaughters are doing every night. Awful. Really, who would buy this thing? Well. When I was home in Malvern a while back, I was in the checkout line at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I happened to be in line behind this exact "grandmother" type described above. What was in her shopping cart?
Unbelievable. She also gave me the eye as I was pretending to "fix" my camera so I could get a shot of this.
So, when I was up in NYC having dinner with the lovely Wake Forest Ladies and drinking multiple glasses of whatever we were all drinking that night. I brought up the ridiculousness of the snuggie. Everyone concurred and found the idea of it hilarious. What would be a reason to get a snuggie? Here is when my next example comes in...
Above is a picture of a group of young people dressed in snuggies. I took this picture the other week when I was out in Breckenridge. Breckenridge is rather cold so wearing a snuggie on a bar crawl is probably one of the only good uses of a snuggie and funny as hell too. I got my dad to pose next to this group of unsuspecting revelers. (Now you will understand about the color choices of the snuggie.) I don't doubt that this company cleaned up at the holiday season but the idea behind this product is ridiculous. At the Wake dinner it was compared with the usefulness of an item that Sophie posted about on her blog once.
The Boyfriend Pillow. Ha.
Hq! I love it! One of my friends is a morning DJ on one of the big radio stations here and her morning crew did a snuggie bar crawl for St. Patrick's Day. You had to have a snuggie to participate.
Posted by: Susanna | March 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM