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Sweater for sweater · Vienna · Advent 2026
Everyone has seen your sweater. Time for a new audience.
ReYule is a swap for ugly Christmas sweaters, straight from one person to another: you hand yours over and go home with one nobody you know has ever seen. One for one, ten minutes, a coffee. No money, no shipping, no middleman storing your reindeer sweater in a basement.
How it works
Four steps. None of them is ironing.
- 1
Show it off.
Two photos in daylight, front and back. Yes, the back too. We know about the stain.
- 2
Say yes.
Tick every sweater in the gallery that you would wear. Or let it surprise you: the size has to fit, the rest is fate.
- 3
We find your swap partner.
Every Monday and Thursday at 20:00, an algorithm from 1965 works out who fits whom. It is older than most of the sweaters and considerably more reliable.
- 4
Ten minutes, one coffee.
You meet within 4 days in a public place, try them on and hand them over at the same time. Then you type in the code. Done.
Try it
Tick the ones you would wear.
This is what your gallery looks like. Tick every sweater you would put on, as many as you like. If someone has ticked yours too, that is a match. Here it is Lady Glitzerbart. For real, you find out on Monday or Thursday at 20:00.
Just a preview: nothing is saved here.
Which would you wear?
Lady Glitzerbart would wear yours too. Match! Now you would arrange a coffee.
The surprise swap
Only the size has to fit.
Tick "Surprise me" and you will take any sweater in your sizes. You both bring your sweaters in a paper bag and unwrap them together. Like opening presents on Christmas Eve, minus the relatives.
If you don't like it, say no and go home with your own. Nobody is offended. Except perhaps the sweater.
Surprise swaps find someone far more often: two people who want a surprise always fit, as long as the size does.
1:1sweater for sweater
€0for a swap
10 min.for a swap
2×pairings a week
House rules
Six rules. Each one for a reason.
- One for one.
- One sweater for one sweater. No money, no "I'll throw in a tenner", no haggling over bobbles.
- In public, in daylight.
- A café near public transport, a Punsch stand, a station hall. No back yards, no "just come up for a second".
- First names only.
- You talk in the chat on your page. Your number stays your number.
- Try it on first.
- Then swap. You can say no at any point, with no reason and no penalty.
- Turn up.
- Miss a meeting and you are paused. Miss two and you are out until next Advent.
- 18 and over.
- We don't swap children's sweaters. They grow out of them before they get embarrassing.
Bring someone along if you like. You don't have to ask. And anyone who misbehaves is reported and blocked with one click.
Join in
It's been hanging there since January. It deserves better.
Two photos, your sizes, done. You get a personal link by email, and everything else happens there. Pairings from Monday 23 November to Thursday 17 December.
Join in
Not quite your thing?
No time this year?
We'll write to you next Advent.
Once, when ReYule starts again. Nothing else.
We keep only your email address, your language and your city, write to you exactly once and then delete them, by 31 December 2027 at the latest. More in our privacy notice.
Not in Vienna or Graz?
Tell us where your sweater lives.
This season we swap in Vienna and Graz. Which city comes next depends partly on where the most people would join in.
We'll write to you once if ReYule starts in your city, then delete your address. If it hasn't started there by 31 December 2027, we delete it on that day. More in our privacy notice.
Questions someone has already asked
Why not just give it away?
Because then you have no new one. Here you go home with a sweater that nobody you know has ever seen.
Is this a clothes swap?
Yes, a very particular one: only Christmas sweaters, the ugly kind, and always one for one. You pick online which ones you would wear, then meet exactly one person.
I need a sweater for the office Christmas party. Is this the place?
Exactly the place. Swap your old Christmas sweater for one nobody at your Christmas party has seen yet. Allow a few days: first the pairing, then your meeting.
What if nobody picks my sweater?
Then we tell you how many people saw it, and you go first at the next pairing. The quickest way is "Surprise me": then there is almost always someone.
What if I don't confirm?
Then the swap lapses and your sweater takes a break, so nobody sits in a café for nothing. One click on your page and it is back in.
What is the code for?
It tells us the swap happened: at the handover, the other person types it in. You don't have to write it on the care label; you can simply show it on your page. A laundry marker on the label is more fun, though: the code stays with the sweater, and the sweater builds up a history with every swap.
By post?
Not this season. You meet in person. That is faster than the post and smells better.
What does it cost?
Nothing. We make no money from any swap, and there are no ads either.
Where do people meet in Vienna?
Wherever you like, as long as it is public: a café near public transport, a punch stand, a station hall. You agree on the place and time in the chat on your page.
ReYule in short: a free clothes swap just for Christmas sweaters (ugly Christmas sweaters) in Vienna and Graz. Two people swap one for one and meet in person to do it. Pairings run every Monday and Thursday at 20:00 during Advent, from Monday 23 November to Thursday 17 December. Run by Sick Ventures.