I met a parent recently that could not allow her son to wear a hoodie. She said “hoodies for boys are a bad idea”. She felt they promoted a bad attitude and also worse, rebellion. “Only criminal types put them on” she said. I didn’t agree needless to say, because I had worn them for a long time and don’t consider myself to become a “criminal type.”

I did so however recently read a British news article in which a certain style of hoodie would be banned. It was a faceless hoodie, one that could be zipped around completely cover the wearer’s face. It even had two transparent elliptical plastic eyes to check through! Security forces felt it was sinister and allowed wearers to completely conceal their identity. I have to admit it had been pretty wicked looking and reminded me of someone wearing a gas mask or perhaps a full-bodied hazmat suit. It was camo colored and I simply knew the wearer had a concealed assault rifle somewhere!

This got me considering hoodies in general. I mean, why are they frequently associated with criminal behavior nowadays. It didn’t was previously that way. Didn’t folks from all backgrounds just put them on to be casual and stay warm concurrently. When I was a youngster we just called them sweat shirts with hoods and you either wore a pullover or one which zipped up. I thought the pockets were what made them cool, one big one across the front you can lock your cold hands in. They even annoyed me sometimes when I’d lose the neck string inside the sweat shirt and it would take me hours to obtain it back!

I was thinking about all of the famous or notorious personalities through history who wore hoodies. There is medieval monks, they wore sort ‘a corny looking dark pullover with hoods. And through the same time the common European peasant wore a hoodie like coat or blanket, right? What about Robin Hood? There is Little Red Riding Hood. The Seven Dwarfs and Snow White herself. Of course so did the wicked queen when she was a witch. Actually a lot of witches ware hoodies! Think about Shrek… and Rocky? Now there is really a couple or hero types that wore a hoodies (and a beanie in Rocky’s case). What I am saying is merely about every stereotype can be found wearing a hoodie at some time and time. Even the Mexican Serape could have a hood onto it if Sombreros weren’t so cool!

The point is that hoodies are for everyone even for boys, plus they don’t make anybody good or bad. music festival shirt do that ourselves with or minus the hoodie. Hoodies can be made with certain colors combinations or logos to recognize the wearer with a certain lifestyle or group of people and maybe that’s were one needs to use a little discernment or good sense but after that I think it just boils right down to they’re comfortable, convenient and down right practical. So in the end I will continue steadily to wear my hoodie and hopefully it doesn’t upset anyone.