It's official! I am completely done with the hoodie. For the past few months I've been thinking about getting a sweet-looking-hoodie and rocking that joker until the cows come home. But every hoodie I see makes me want to beat myself for even considering wearing it. Three issues strike me as important in regard to all things sweatshirt-connected-headcover-related.
a: You can wear any hoodie if you in fact intend on wearing the upper portion of the garment, and have a reason to do so. Reasons to do so might include weather, robbery, and hideous haircut covering. Any other reason for wearing the hood portion of the hoodie does not exist, period.
b: The hoodie is essentially a sweatshirt with an inflated sense of self. Just because you have a hood in your design does not make you any better than a $12 sweatshirt from K-Mart. The FACT that people are willing to spend copious amounts on hoodies from companies such as LRG, Upper Playground, and Juicy does not make them more valuable, it means street wear has been corporatized to the point of ridiculousness.
c: If you are a 36-year-old male who thinks that Axel Foley looked so cool in the Beverly Hills Cop Series and you want to wear a hoodie for that reason, it just might be time to buy a cardigan.
