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Hoodies: A current fashion trend that is actually quite old!

You might think that hoodies are the epitome of fashion, comfort, and warmth in the 21^st century. You won’t be wrong but, did you know just how old this fashion item is?

Hood history

Hoods themselves are centuries old, they’re a great invention! In fact, there are traces back to medieval times in Europe. Monks wore hooded capes but so did outdoor workers. Hoods go as far back as the 12^th century!

The hooded sweatshirt or “hoodie”

In the1930s, hooded sweatshirts became a sort of uniform for workers in cold factories in the U.S. It wasn’t until the 1970s that we saw the first fashion “hoodie”. It’s not often that an item stays in fashion for as long as this! Imagine wearing other 70s fashion items right now? Hoodies were a big part of the growing hip hop culture that took off in New York during the 1970s. The film Rocky was also seen as a catalyst for this garment’s rise in popularity too. There may have been hoodies in the 1970s but the name itself wasn’t popular until the 1990s.

Big fashion house hoodies

The 1990s saw the likes of Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Giorgio Armani launch hoodies into their repertoire. The hoodie has, therefore, remained a key item for people’s wardrobes across most age groups ever since.