Mens hoodies

[Crakk]

What is the DH or AA? What do they stand for? I would like to get my hands on them. And what size do you guys suggest i should get? Im 6 1, 135.

 

[tott]

^ Dior Homme/American Apparel?

 

[Crakk]

Ok Thanks

 

[Crakk]

I like the American Apparels. Slim fitting but nice looking.

 

[AlexN]

The built-in scarf is what makes it unique, as well as the over-sized hood, so comparing it to a basic AA is pretty dumb, not to mention the fabric is much softer, it's made in italy...and it's DH, need i say more lol...

Haha...

It still just looks plain and crappy with a gimmicky "design" to me. Remove the scarf thing and it'll look very plain. DH stuff used to take a lot more breaking down before it looked at all generic.

And if there was no DH tag, how much would you pay for it? $50-75 maybe?

 

[Izreal]

Remove the scarf thing and it'll look very plain.

well the scarf IS the whole point of what makes it special lol...and it also happens to have a practical purpose unlike a lot of overdesigned stuff with stupid zippers and crap...

you sound like you are a pre-VOTC DH purist, always talking about how things were better "back in the day"...

although i agree the quality has gone down lately...i and many others still find interest in what the recent collections have to offer.. including the scarf hoodie... which by the way i got at a really good discount price which is why i snatched it without hesitation....but to each his own..

 

[Chinor1z]

I initially liked the scarf hoodie as a concept when it first came out, but the price tag vs. what you got just didn't jive with me in the least bit... I think it was $575 retail which is just absolutely plain ridiculous.

After I saw it at Dior NYC, I was totally turned off by it. The cotton is MAYBE slightly softer than AA tee cotton, and there just aren't any details on the hoodie aside from the scarf. Is that scarf WORTH that extra.... $500?

In the end, the answer is no.

Take away the scarf and you literally have a cheap hoodie.

Just wear a matching fabric scarf with the hoodie and the effect is the same. In terms of practicality... it's barely practical. Let's be honest here. If it's cold enough out for your neck to get cold, it's too cold for just wearing a thin hoodie.

But, if you got it for a really deep discount, I can't hate on that. I'd likely still buy it for $150 or something.

I own a reasonable amount of VotC and clothes from the season after... but ZERO from last season and ZERO from this season. It's junk. No matter how you cut it! I really hate to say it... I really really do. Call me a DH purist if you want, but all the stuff there now just blows.

But, mad props on the MJ avatar. I give you props for that! MJ is such a badass!

 

[AlexN]

^Wow, I can ditto that entire post apart from being in DH NYC. I think the hoodie was like $425 or so on Eluxury, though.

 

[EdK]

scarf hoodie was 410, i have a white one in 98% cotton 2% stretch and gray one in 100% cotton

 

[vigge]

Come on, stop talkning about taking the scarf off. It's there so why argue about it.
I got mine at discount too. About the scarf once again, it's an important detail of the hood and it's enough to make me very glad owning this hoodie. If you don't like it fine, but please stop talking about taking the scarf off.

 

[djflame]

Spruce. Quality is so much nicer than DH's paper-thin offerings.

 

[EdK]

thin doesnt mean cheap, and id rather have a thin cotton sweatshirt then a real thick and hefty one. thin is more comfortable.

 

[djflame]

Mind you, Spruce is pretty thin and form-fitting as well. When the price/value ratio is compared, DH pales in comparision to Spruce or say Rag & Bone.

I'm just not a fan of "designer" hoodies when I can get better made ones for half the price. The designs of Spruce is nothing to be scoffed at either. The yellow/kelly green tiger fleece hoodie is an original.

Speaking of paper-thin hoodies, I prefer to go with smaller niche designers I know who does basic colors in jersey cotton.

and stuff from CYC is certainly not cookie-cutter. they might not be cutting-edge fashion, but the quality beats anything hands down.

 

[satsuma]

I just bought a Prada red label hoody from SS/06 that's stressing me out at the moment I can't decide whether to return it or not.
It's what I was looking for I have no problem with the hoody itself but I can't decide whether it's too big or not. They don't stock any size smaller than medium so I've tried it, the sleeves are a little long but they can be altered. I'd normally wear a hoody slim-fitting but this one is more kinda heavy-duty, it's something I could wear skiing as well as casually. Should a hoody like that be a little more baggy anyway? As i say I normally stick to slim-fitting clothes. I'll try and get a pic ASAP

Ahh. Prada Sport/Red Label/Linea Rossa = Next brand to hit chavness.
I thought it was a joke when I read on newspapers that you couldn't get into clubs in Manchester if you were wearing Prada Sport. Then I was looking for shoes at Selfridges and saw a group of chavs all around the Prada Sport section. Granted, that was the first time I've ever seen them, but the kids were roughly 16-17ish?

I find the red plastic label thingy too conspicuous, and (quite frankly) easy to copy. It would be sad for Prada to go the same way as Burberry...

Anyhow, I suggest you return it (if you haven't already).

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I'd like to stress that i'm not trying to be snobbish/posh by hating chavs. I hope I didn't come across as some anal Conservative .
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As for hoodies in general.. I think the DH ones that are available are not worth the price. I've not heard of Rogan and these Wings people, but I suppose that's NYC fashion. Hah. Sounds hipster-ish? (heh, someone has really got to explain that phenomenon to me, no equivalent around here.)

The Cloak ones look nice.... But their clothing seems to have problems (another thread mentioned the antique buttons falling off and problems with shoes or whatnot), so i would really.. make sure you get something quite durable.
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Raf Simons makes these hoodies with slash underarms, which look kinda funky. You can find them at Browns for 100 quid (think it's the raf by raf simons line...) Not sure about quality and whether it'll keep you warm though.

 

[AlexN]

thin doesnt mean cheap, and id rather have a thin cotton sweatshirt then a real thick and hefty one. thin is more comfortable.

Agreed.

 

[Amo_Armani]

Are u saying that the D and G ones are fake, just because they are from Ebay? What ignorance. I have seen them at the D and G store here in NY and i have ALSO seen them on the fashion sites. Can u explain your statement?

Trust me, all 4 hoodies are fake.

 

[Rightguard]

Something that is original is Artful Dodger or Leroy Jenkinks. Personally I don't like them but some peolple do.

 

[fashion_boi_01]

I tried on the American Apparel pullover hoodie, and damn that is slim. I'm too cheap to pay the $55 + tax so I'll get it off eBay. Don't know if I should go with the white or black.

 

[faust]

Stupid, vulgur and ugly - exactly the reflection of the popular culture

text and images from nytimes.com

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April 27, 2006
You Got a Problem With My Hoodie?

By WILLIAM VAN METER
ON a recent Saturday the SoHo street-wear store Union was so crowded that there was a line to get in.
"Kids can't wait to drop $400 on a sweatshirt," Ricky Saiz, a salesman, said of the shop's hottest item. "We sell $4,000 worth of them a day."
These are not just any pullovers. Made by Billionaire Boys Club, a brand owned by the musician-producer Pharrell Williams and Nigo (of A Bathing Ape, the cult Japanese label), they are electric Easter egg-colored sweatshirts covered with garish images like dollar signs and diamonds. Think of a mutated version of the ubiquitous Vuitton Murakami rainbow print.
"The patterns are like children's wallpaper gone out of control," Mr. Williams said.
Allover print, a staple of women's wear, turned up on the men's spring runways at Miu Miu and Comme des Garçons, among others. But if the look has not necessarily taken off with the fashion set, an extreme version of it has made a surprisingly swift and visible dent in hip-hop and street wear, trappings that since the early 1990's have had a regimented "if you look tough, you are tough" aesthetic.
This particular urban "allover" mania makes use of pastel and neon colors and imagery not usually associated with men's apparel (or even adults', for that matter). The prints are disarmingly childlike, even infantile; you can easily imagine them as footie pajamas.
"When I was a kid, my parents couldn't afford a lot of stuff like that," Mr. Williams explained of his designs. "I'm reliving my childhood in clothing. This generation is like that. We all hit our 30's and want to be kids. We like breakfast cereal beyond breakfast hours, and we're into SpongeBob."
Even camouflage, the one venerable allover print for street wear, has been remixed by A Bathing Ape in baby blue, pink and lemon.
"I wasn't thinking about appealing to the hip-hop market, although it is what I listen to and am influenced by," Nigo, the Bathing Ape designer, said by e-mail. "I think that the original inspiration for the look comes from luxury brands. Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi monogram prints, which were only applied to luggage."
Bradley Carbone, an associate editor of the hip-hop style magazine Complex, tried out an explanation. "It's a parody and an aspiration to be a luxury product at the same time," he offered.
The designer Bernhard Willhelm has used intricate graphics as a motif in his sportswear for years. "These influences are coming from Japan," he said. "Street culture is really living there." And now street-wear consumers here shop like their Japanese counterparts. They scour shops for T-shirts and sneakers as if on a scavenger hunt or line up outside stores for a new release. It is not cool just to have an item; it's also about what you had to go through to get it.
The do-it-yourself uptown flash of the early 80's — the Members Only jackets, enormous Gazelle glasses and trucker caps — which was so well documented in "Back in the Days," the Jamel Shabazz book of man-on-the-street photographs, has been thoroughly mined in sidewalk fashion. Now the late 80's, which were characterized by more intricate styles of clothing specifically created for a hip-hop consumer instead of a pieced-together amalgam, are ripe for revisiting.
"Versace came out with prints in crazy colors," Mr. Willhelm remembers of that time, "and somehow this look was picked up by the hip-hop guys. Twenty years later, it's back." Can high-top fades be far behind?
"If you look at the history of hip-hop style and street-wear fashion," Mr. Carbone said, "there has always been an element of obnoxious colors and outfits, like tracksuits with matching sneakers. These new kinds of allover-print T-shirts and sweatshirts provide that flashiness."
Supreme, a skate shop on Lafayette Street, did print shirts using iconography like gold chains a couple of years ago, but it was not until Billionaire Boys Club paired the colors with outlandish drawings that the trend started to sweep, and small labels like 10.Deep followed with their own renditions.
Recon, the graffiti-meets-military-theme outpost on Lafayette, had an unexpected sidewalk hit in an allover money hoodie that looked like a sheet of counterfeit bills with skulls replacing the presidents' heads.
"We have a humor about stuff," said Amy Lee, the designer at Recon, "but we try not to be too goofy-looking." The money hoodies sold out entirely. Recon is now selling T-shirts printed with a street map of Manhattan, and Ms. Lee's allover print in the works has soldiers shooting one another.
For many customers these intricate sweatshirts are surrogate bling and instant status. The price for a hoodie may be exorbitant — one usually starts at about $200 — but it is far more affordable than a gem-encrusted medallion necklace from Jacob the Jeweler. The Billionaire Boys Club pieces are released in carefully limited editions so that the demand outnumbers the supply, à la Cabbage Patch Dolls in the 80's. Only 300 of any of its garments are made for sale worldwide; only about 40 of any sweatshirt style make it to New York shops.
"The allover-print hoodies are the most exclusive pieces," said Gavin Caro, a devotee of the new look. "If it is wack, then your line is wack." Mr. Caro, 20, was wearing a black sweatshirt with paisley swirls from The Hundreds in Los Angeles. It was a special edition in which you dye the paisleys yourself; he chose purple.
Chris Hostos, a marketing director for Pepsi, buys a new hoodie weekly; his latest acquisition features crickets and butterflies. "If I walk down the street," Mr. Hostos said, "I will probably get 20 people looking at me going, 'What are you wearing?' " He looked down at his floral-patterned hoodie made by the Los Angeles designer Leroy Jenkins and added, "I can wear flowers, no problem."

 

[surver]

Roen cuts a mean hoodie; but it's very hard to come by...