| Today, you can't take one step outside without | | | | popular brands. Examples of popular hoodie brands |
| seeing somebody walking around in a hooded | | | | are Element, Billabong and Hurley. |
| sweatshirts. These shirts are commonly referred to | | | | University students have also always been a big fan |
| as hoodies. They were first introduced a long time | | | | of the hooded sweatshirt. You can't walk into one |
| ago and back then they were made for men who | | | | University without seeing a groups of students |
| played sports only. Since then, women have also | | | | wearing hoodies that display the University name. |
| jumped on the hoodie bandwagon. | | | | When you are a college students, you simply cannot |
| In this modern day, most hoodies are actually | | | | afford to not have one of these. |
| designed by some of the most popular designers. For | | | | Hoodies cost a lot these days. A lot of people are |
| that reason, hoodie prices have jumped up sharply in | | | | disappointed when they go out to buy a hoodie and |
| recent years. This can be called ironic, because it's | | | | find out some of them cost over a hundred dollars. |
| mostly teenagers and early twenty somethings, with | | | | But bare in mind that hoodies not only make you |
| not a lot of money in the bank yet, who want to | | | | look fashionable, they will also keep you warm and |
| wear this type of hooded outerwear. | | | | cozy when you step outside and it's cold. |
| More and more women are starting to wear hoodies | | | | The popularity of the hoodie is rising and completely |
| as well. When fashion designers turned their interest | | | | unstoppable. The hoodie has gone from a sportswear |
| to the hoodie, they started putting some feminine | | | | for men only to a fashionable must have for both |
| curves in those hoodies so that women could wear | | | | young, old, male and female. You can't afford to |
| them too. Thanks to the design, women can still | | | | have a hoodie anymore these days. They make you |
| show off their figure even though they're wearing | | | | look casual, sportive and trendy all at once. |
| one. They look great when they also wear jeans and | | | | Because hoodies are now designer clothing, prices are |
| sneakers. | | | | sometimes extremely high. But department stores |
| Rappers, surfers, skateboarders... all of those are | | | | frequently have sales and they will sell popular brands |
| good examples of people who have that whole | | | | for a price that is much lower than average. |
| hoodie culture going on. They've helped in bringing the | | | | Whenever a department store near you is having a |
| hoodie to the masses. If you have ever seen youth | | | | sale, make sure to head over so you can jump onto |
| skateboarding in your local area, then odds are they | | | | the hoodie bandwagon yourself! |
| were wearing hoodies of their favorite and most | | | | |