The outfit was constructed to compete in my company's holiday party "best-dressed" contest - yes, I won by a landslide. There were prizes for male and female contestants. Strangely, the winner of the best-dressed male category was also a holiday tree! Unfortunately for my poor tree brother, the lights on his outfit were not battery-operated, and he spent the entire party plugged into the wall while his wife fed him snacks (apparently, trees don't have arms in his world).