Campy designs? Colors bolder than charcoal? We love what we hear. The impendingholidaysprovide the perfect excuse for investing in festive knitwear, but shopping for it demands finessing a kind of Goldilocks balance — between buying a sophisticated and classy Christmas sweater that will turn heads at your well-oiled fête and ensuring the item is versatile enough to be reused well past December. One thing’s for certain, though: Your ugly Christmas sweater this year need not be ugly (in fact, we strongly urge against it).