Its the day where you give your sweater and receiving another sweater with someone special in return.
"I still remember the third of December, me in your sweater
You said it looked better on me than it did you
Only if you knew how much I liked you"
(Conan Gray, 2020, Heather)
Lets exchange our favorite sweatertoday because its Sweater Exchange Day!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)