I couldn't afford leather but in the early 70's I wore one under my jean jacket.When was the hooded sweatshirt created? When did people start to wear a hoodie under a leather jacket?
I go back far enough when the 'look' was not thuggish....that look is a much more modern phenom. In my day leather jackets were the thug look.I've never owned a hoodie. I've always found the look kind of ugly and wannabe thuggish - whether under a jacket or just on it's own.
Yes, I remember them as primarily athletic wear back in the '50s and '60s, and I distinctly remember them on the Princeton athletic field during a football practice session when I was in the boy scouts. You often saw them with college names printed on the front. No way they would have been worn under a sport jacket, though. Just wasn't done.Speaking from my own 65-year-old experience...
Hooded sweatshirts go back as far as I recall - here are my parents wearing them on a Cape Cod vacation in 1965. I vaguely remember that we'd all gotten sweatshirts in Provincetown... though they don't say CAPE COD or have any silk screened seashells, lobsters, or sailboats like today's coast-town souvenir sweatshirts.
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But zippered hooded sweatshirts didn't appear in NY area clothing stores until the very late seventies. And they were a big hit, an instant must-have. It immediately seemed very weird that nobody had thought of putting in a zipper before.
I'll admit I sometimes layer a plain grey hoodie under my A-2, and I don't mind the look at all.Hoodies have their place. Not under a jacket. Maybe I'm just old.