Holiday shopping is only half the battle. When it comes to getting wrap around all those gifts, it's easy to retreat to the old snowflake-festooned paper and self-adhesive plastic bows. Or, worse yet, ...

For a certain subset on the internet last December, they were inescapable: bows, bows, bows. People tying coquettish pink ribbons onto everything—Christmas trees, ice cubes, Stanley tumblers, their ...