Fluffy Baby Cow Ugly Christmas Sweater Cowboy Hat Plaid Scarf Wreath

The cowboy hat has been set down in the snow beside the calf, brim tipped to one side, with holly and red berries gathered around it. Somebody clearly took it off to make room for the winter gear. The calf now wears a knit hat with a floral sprig, cream earmuffs and a plaid scarf finished with two pink pom-poms, and it sits between snowy pine trees with wrapped gifts at its hooves.

A Fluffy Baby Cow Ugly Christmas Sweater With a Cowboy Hat Resting in the Snow

Our Fluffy Baby Cow Ugly Christmas Sweater is a crew neck holiday sweater for men and women, with a ginger Highland calf at the center of a red field full of falling snowflakes. The same little herd circles the chest hem and the sleeves in cream bands: one calf in a green sweater, one with a red bow, one in a Santa hat with a holly garland around its neck. Fair Isle style borders run between the rows, and small pines, gift boxes and berry sprigs fill the spaces along the sleeves. The whole thing feels like a snow globe that somebody shrank down to wear.

We made it for the person with a soft spot for Highland cows and a western streak that shows up even in December. The cowboy hat in the snow gives them a wink of ranch life, while the plaid scarf and earmuffs keep everything firmly in Christmas. It suits the ugly Christmas sweater party, the family card photo and a cookie-baking afternoon with the kids. A sister who decorates her kitchen with cows would pick it out of a rack in seconds, and so would a mother-in-law who collects barn-print dish towels. People will ask about the big calf first. Then they spot the hat, and then the tiny calves repeating around the hem, and the conversation takes care of itself.

Where Else Does a Baby Highland Cow in Earmuffs Fit Besides the Christmas Party?

The sweater works anywhere the weather turns cold and the mood turns festive, such as tree-lighting nights, winter markets, school holiday days and quiet evenings at home. The Highland calf, cowboy hat and plaid scarf also read as a cozy winter print on their own, so it stays comfortable to wear through the colder weeks after December 25.

Somewhere on the chest, a small brown hat is still waiting in the snow for its calf to come back for it.