Debenhams

1,658 jumpers to choose from

Christmas jumpers, pyjamas and festive knits at Debenhams — a big range across womenswear, menswear and kids, with the licensed-character jumpers they do better than most.

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Debenhams is comfortably the biggest single source of Christmas jumpers on this site, and the reason is that it is now an online brand carrying a very large number of other labels rather than a department store with a fixed range. In practice that means the festive rail here is wider and stranger than anywhere else we list.

Everything is in it. Proper wool-blend Fair Isle from the heritage knitwear brands. Full novelty tat with pom-poms on. Jumper dresses, children’s sets, pyjamas, pet jumpers and a long tail of designs from labels you will not have heard of. If you do not know what you want and you want to look at as much as possible in one place, start here – it is the closest thing to browsing a whole high street at once.

Because it is a marketplace of brands, the two things that vary most are sizing and delivery times, and both are per-item rather than site-wide. Check the specific listing rather than assuming. The upside of the same arrangement is that the sales are frequent and the discounts on festive knitwear after the first week of December are often substantial.

Fair Isle Knit Jumper Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fair Isle Knit Jumper

Fair Isle: festive by association rather than by announcement. A jumper, in the proper sense of the word.

Fair Isle Longline Cardigan Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fair Isle Longline Cardigan

Proper Fair Isle, which has been quietly right for a hundred years. The whole idea is "Fair Isle Longline". It lands or it does not.

Fairisle Jumper Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fairisle Jumper

The Fair Isle band across the chest, as it has been since the 1920s. One piece, over the head, done.

Fairisle Jumper Dress Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fairisle Jumper Dress

Fair Isle: the pattern that was festive before festive was a category. Nothing clever going on, and nothing needs to be.

Fairisle Knit Jumper Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fairisle Knit Jumper

Fair Isle, the pattern that never had to try to be Christmassy. It is what it looks like, which is a compliment.

Fairisle Knit Jumper Dress Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fairisle Knit Jumper Dress

Fair Isle knit — the grown-up end of the Christmas jumper shelf. Wearable, which is more than half the battle in December.

Fairisle Knitted Dress Christmas jumper from Debenhams

Fairisle Knitted Dress

Fair Isle, the pattern that never had to try to be Christmassy. Wearable, which is more than half the battle in December.