Christmas Costumes

## FAHfty Shades of Red and Green: Every Single Christmas Outfit in Foil Arms & Hog YouTube Sketches

*Let’s count which FAH wears Christmas outfits more often. Who will win?*

This article covers all Christmas outfits that appear in lads’ sketches (FYI: only official sketches that are now available to watch on YouTube.) Before we start I would like to remind our dearest FAHns that there are several Christmas sketches where guys wear normal clothes, so these videos won’t be mentioned here.

We’ll start with the oldest. We go back to 2012 to see Hog in a red jumper with a big brown reindeer in the sketch called **FA&H Christmas Party 2012**. It’s interesting though that the other two were wearing just normal clothes, so one point for Hog. By the way, that Foil’s version of Jingle Bells song is the most entertaining I’ve ever heard. Poor Foil’s character though…

We continue in December of 2013 with the short video called **Dublin Airport Emotional Arrival**. Again, there is only one of FAH who wears some Christmas-y detail but this time, it’s Foil. Though it’s only a typical red elf hat, it brings Foil one point. In the name of justice, I have to admit that Arms doesn’t even appear in front of the camera so we can’t know whether he has any festive detail or not.

We have to skip 2014 as there were no X-mas outfits and move directly to 2015 to **Getting Out of Shape for Christmas** sketch. Here we have Hog with full green and red elvish outfit and Foil in Santa’s costume. I have to say it’s a very interesting version of Santa’s look as he has no beard, no coat and no gloves but a white T-shirt and red suspenders (I wonder if Arms lent them to Foil). Both lads have a point and Arms has a nice red bandana that he wears in the cutest of all possible ways.

Now we are in 2016 with **A Very Irish Christmas** sketch. Foil wears a black jumper with white reindeers and snowflakes plus a yellow paper crown, Hog wears just a red paper crown. Guess who doesn’t wear any X-mas detail? Correct! Now Foil and Hog each have three points, Arms no points for Christmas outfits but 10 points for singing (or whatever is the highest mark in Eurovision song contest).

Let’s go to 2017 to watch Foil an Arms discuss **What Women Want**. Guess who wears something Christmas-y and who doesn’t? If you voted for Foil you were right. Has Arms got any type of allergy to all this red and green stuff, too? In this video, Foil recycles his red elf hat from Dublin Airport… sketch and Arms rocks in his stylish deep brown coat but it doesn’t bring him a point.

We are moving to 2018… Wait! WHAAAT? Arms is wearing a Christmas jumper? Dearest FAHns, all attention to the **Evil Christmas Presents** sketch, please, where Arms appears in a black and white jumper with reindeers that Dad from McCormack family shared with him. Foil is good at recycling as he gives the third opportunity to the classical red elf hat. So, Arms obtains his first point, Foil’s got five, Hog – three.

2019 and **Santa is Captured by the Russians** sketch. Hog shows us how a real Santa has to look. No, seriously, he looks so authentic! And the other two… Well, who on Earth cares that they weren’t wearing any Christmas outfit when they were wearing that uniform? So, Hog gets his fourth point and we get two gorgeous guys in uniform. (Sighhhh…)

January of 2019 brought us **A Party with the Months of the Year** video where Foil played December in an elf hat, Santa’s coat and with a fairy lights garland all over him, that was switched on. This bright (in all the senses) guy gets the sixth point. Seems like we have a leader… Wait, how was it? “Foil is a bit of an all-rounder, a natural leader…”

Finally, we are in December 2020, and we have two videos with Christmas clothing. The first one is **The Elves are Fed Up** where we see Foil as a sick and tired but very stylish elf as his outfit is the most elaborated of all the elves that we saw in FAH sketches. He wears a different elf hat and a red and black outfit with golden sparkles. I have some doubts in his scarf though as it seems to me that it’s just a sleeve of a jumper that was used as a scarf. Seems like the jumper itself was hidden under Foil’s outfit with one sleeve going down from the neckline. Well, it’s just my conspiracy theory. Hog again shines as Santa in the full Santa costume. Now talking seriously, Hog shows such a real and true Santa Claus image using only half of his face (as the other one is hidden by a beard) and his voice that it’s hard to believe it’s a young guy in front of our eyes and not an elderly Christmas personage.

It’s time for the last sketch to be mentioned here and it’s the **Honest Christmas Song** sketch with good old elf hats worn by Foil and Hog. But wait, do you think Arms isn’t wearing any X-mas thingy? He is! Those nice red socks that he shows us at the very end of the song! We can’t see if they have any festive print but they are red so let’s give a lad his point.

Here come the results of our Christmas outfits contest: Arms gained two points, Hog received six points, Foil obtained eight points and the winners are FAHns as we’ve got so many wonderful Christmas characters to brighten our festive season.

*Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, dearest FAH and FAHns!*

*Author: Lillian (aka Lilium Sylvanum)'*