Christmas mornings are long — what you wear should be the easy part!

Just imagine a cream sweater printed with wrapped gifts, gingerbread men, pinecones, ribbons and little trees in warm red and sage. Now stop imagining, because this is that sweater, and it's as comfortable as the one you'd normally be wearing.

• A Warm Festive Palette
  Red, sage, gold and cream — the colours of a well-set table rather than a novelty jumper. It photographs beautifully on the day itself.
• Charming, Not Childish
  Gingerbread men, parcels and pinecones are drawn with soft shading and set against plenty of cream. The charm is there; the costume feeling is not.
• Soft Waffle Knit
  Light and warm with real stretch through the body — the sort of thing you can cook in, sit down in and still look pulled together in by the evening.
• Relaxed Through The Body
  The cut skims instead of clinging, with a dropped shoulder and a gently curved hem that sits just past the hip. Take your usual size for the easy drape you see here, or go one up if you like a little more room. It comes in S through 5XL, and the shape is drafted for each one rather than simply scaled up.
• Easy To Wash After
  Machine wash cool and lay flat to dry. After a day of cooking and children that matters more than anything else on this list.

Most holiday knitwear is uncomfortable enough that you change out of it by three. This one is simply a soft sweater that happens to be festive — which is why it lasts the whole day, and why it comes back out every December.