I met a parent recently that would not allow her son to wear a hoodie. She said “hoodies for boys certainly 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 of course, 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 was going to be banned. It was 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 had been sinister and allowed wearers to totally 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 just knew the wearer had a concealed assault rifle somewhere!

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

I was thinking about all 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 was Little Red Riding Hood. The Seven Dwarfs and Snow White herself. Of course so did the wicked queen when she was a witch. Actually many 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 http://yoursite.com ‘m saying is merely about every stereotype are available wearing a hoodie at some point and time. Even the Mexican Serape could 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 this ourselves with or without the hoodie. Hoodies can be made with certain colors combinations or logos to recognize the wearer with a particular lifestyle or group and maybe that’s were one needs to work with a little discernment or common sense but after that I believe 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.