Arms have the disadvantage that they are thinner at the bottom than at the top, which is a miserable count when knitting sweater sleeves: stitches have to be increased every few rows, and woe betide you make a mistake. Then the only thing that helps is to unravel and start over. In this respect, a Tyrannosaurus Rex is a perfect wearer of a pullover because the arithmetic effort is limited with its little arms. If sweaters had already existed in the Cretaceous Period, the T-Rex might not have become extinct because the low temperatures after the asteroid impact would have left it cold – if it existed at all.
The XXXL Christmas jumper, which was custom-made for the T-Rex in the Natural History Museum in London, is unfortunately more than 65 million years late, but it is still an eye-catcher. Since Colin Firth’s moose sweater appearance in “Bridget Jones – Chocolate for Breakfast”, it has been a ploy among celebrities to dress hideously for Christmas. Even the British royals, who at times also appear prehistoric, have worn Ugly Christmas sweaters, if only at Madame Tussauds. It’s not far to the funny, woolly T-Rex.
Incidentally, the dinosaur sweater is not just a heartwarming gift for a freezing giant lizard, but an advertising campaign by the sweater company. 100 hours of knitting work in it, as the New York Times writes, and who knows how many there would have been with long sleeves. The irony of the T-Rex fate: His neck protrudes from a turtleneck, as the turtleneck is called in English. If he had lived to see a strange species called human put him in a robe named after a turtle … Sometimes it might be better to be extinct in time.
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