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‘Tis the Season: Value Village + Seattle Magazine Tacky Sweater Contest
By Seattle Mag December 12, 2013
!–paging_filter–pTacky sweaters are the reason for the season. When else do you have sartorial sanction to pull out your ugliest, gaudiest, green and reddest, most fabulous ugly holiday sweater? We know you wear them because we see you doing it all over Facebook and Instagram, there’s no denying it. So send those pics of your festive self before Thursday, December 19 for a chance to win a $50 gift card to a href=”http://www.valuevillage.com/” target=”_blank”Value Village/a. You can email pics to me at a href=”mailto:[email protected]“[email protected]/a, or submit them via Twitter or Instagram with the tag @seattlemag. We’ll showcase the winner and runners up on the blog during Christmas week./p
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