I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I’m surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I’m prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I’m the only one.
Hoodie
Jackets are lined.
Jackets, often, but not always. Track jackets, windbreaker jackets, shell jackets, etc. Light jackets and coats without lining are pretty easy to find. I even have a light sport coat with no lining.
Sweatshirts are double-layered pullovers, typically non-woven. Sweaters are single-layer pullovers, typically knit. Jackets have buttons or zippers. Hoodies have hoods and are made of fabric (e.g. raincoats are not hoodies).
You can have hoodies that are also sweatshirts, or hoodies that are also jackets.
This garment pictured in your post is a jacket. It is also a hoodie. It is neither a sweatshirt nor a sweater.
This is just my interpretation of the situation. I don’t know of any formal classification system for outerwear.
Ugh, I spent entirely too much time arguing this when I was still in school, ironically the most time we spent arguing with men that were more than twice my age and felt way too strongly about this.
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If it comes as a set with matching bottoms(or a gold chain) = Tracksuit/Sweatsuit
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Light single layer + hood = hoodie
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Light (single layer) + zipper/buttons + no hood = Jacket
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Light (single layer) + knitted = sweater or sweater jacket if it opens
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The other lighter layers with no hardware are just pullover
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Heavier outterwear = Coat
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You’re missing things like wind breaker and rain jacket - light, zipper, hood.
You wrote all of that and left out the one in the picture
It’s a zip up hoodie
Just hoodie.
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A swacket.
It does sound better than a jackshirt.
That my friend, is called a hoodie.
I would not call it at all.
(because I know already that it won’t come :-))
That particular thing is a hoodie. Without the hood it’s a jacket. Without a zip (as in, it goes over your head to put it on) it’s a jumper. I think sweatshirt is an American word
Sounds like it!
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sweatshirt_n?tl=true
The earliest known use of the noun sweatshirt is in the 1920s.
OED’s earliest evidence for sweatshirt is from 1929, in Sears, Roebuck Catalogue.
EDIT: I never really thought about the word until now, realized that it’s a portmanteau of “sweater” and “shirt”.
I just call a hoodie without a zipper a pullover hoodie.
all dependent on the material
I really like these because they’re convenient. I call them a hoodie.
Then I realised I never use the hood and it’s kinda uncomfortable when you put a jacket on in winter
So I bought one without a hood
That was the day I realised I’d bought what was essentially my first cardigan :(
So OP is a hooded cardigan.
the ones without hoods often have uncomfortable collars, like zipper scratching my neck etc. so even though i dont use the hood, i prefer having it so it sits well.
Mr. Rogers would be proud. :)
If it has a zipper I’d consider it a sweater not a cardigan. Cardis have buttons.
(Realizing that a cardigan is a type of sweater, but I just mean it’s a different kind of sweater)
You keep telling yourself that when you’re 50 my friend 😂
Hooded sweatshirt.
I know they’re essentially the same thing but when you say it that way I think of a hooded pullover, but hoodies are zippered for me.
I insisted on calling them this throughout high school because I thought the word hoodie was dumb. Tbh I was probably annoying about it. Eventually I caved, but I still think hoodie is kind of a dumb word. So is jumper for what it’s worth.
Jacket. But also hoodie.
The tag on the one I wear says sweatshirt on it.
That’s a zippered hoodie
According to the TSA, it’s a jacket. Ask me how I know.
How do you know ? Does it involve cavity search ?
Not in my case, but if did involve a very minor disagreement with a TSA officer.
I very minor disagreement: I’m not stupid. But I was a white male US citizen, otherwise I wouldn’t have risked it.
I was a white male US citizen
What are you these days?
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