Hoodies For Boys – Aren’t They A Good Idea?

I met a parent recently that would 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 even worse, rebellion. “Only criminal types wear them” she said. I didn’t agree needless to say, because I had worn them for years and don’t consider myself to become a “criminal type.”


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

This got me thinking about hoodies in general. I mean, why are they so often 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 at the same time. When I was a kid 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 at times when I’d lose the neck string in the sweat shirt also 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 during sp5der wore a hoodie like coat or blanket, right? What about Robin Hood? There was Little Red Riding Hood. The Seven Dwarfs and Snow White herself. Needless to say so did the wicked queen when she was a witch. In fact plenty of witches ware hoodies! What about Shrek… and Rocky? There is really a couple or hero types that wore a hoodies (and a beanie in Rocky’s case). What I’m saying is merely about every stereotype are available wearing a hoodie at some time and time. Even the Mexican Serape would have a hood on it if Sombreros weren’t so cool!

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