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I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I'm surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I'm prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I'm the only one.

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[–] PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I always called it a sweat jacket.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

In German: Kapuzenjacke

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

Schrodinger's Outer Layer

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

sweatjacket

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Sweatshirt when zipped, jacket when unzipped, always hoodie.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's clearly white and gold

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's blue and black what are you high on?!

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

Depends what it's made of IMO. That form factor can be a jacket if it's made of jacket material, but the one pictured appears to be made of sweater material, and it's therefore a hoodie, which is a sweater.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Standard haxor uniform for posing for pictures.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Missing are the black jeans, black sunglasses and/or the Guy Fawkes madk.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 11 months ago

It's a hoodie.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This whole thing is confusing to me.

For me, gen X, growing up it was this:
Sweatshirt: Non-hooded OR hooded and shirt shaped with NO zipper but made of material that is "fleece"-like on one side and smooth-ish on the other.

Jacket: zippered thing, long sleeves, usually made of plastic or nylon but the purpose was to wear OVER your clothes as a windbreaker and/or to keep you warm.

Hoodies did not exist. Things like a sweatshirt, jacket, coat or shirt might have a hood.

Now, I do not know what the fuck to call shit.

That is a fucking jirt. Shirtet. Sweatjack. Hoodet. Sweatie. Jackie.

[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

We call them zoodies in our sports club, to differentiate them from hoodies, which have no zip.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a zip up hoody, which makes it a sweater as far as I'm aware.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 24 points 11 months ago

Zip up hoodie

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Depends on the material and construction by my reckoning. If it's made of just sweatshirt fleece (smooth on the outside face), it would most-precisely be called a "full-zip hooded sweatshirt." I have also heard of these referred to as a "sweatjac," though. (Which, IMO, sounds more like an event at the Self-Love Olympics.) Without the zipper, it'd be a "pullover hooded sweatshirt." If it were constructed with a lining, or from a heavier-duty material (e.g. denim), then it'd be a "hooded jacket." Garments made from material with two fuzzy faces (or even one fuzzy face on the outside) are "fleeces," so this'd be a "full-zip hooded fleece."

No, I don't claim that it makes sense, it's just the way I learned it.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's both, depending on what word my brain decides to use at the time.

But I think usually that would be a "sweater", a "sweatshirt" doesn't have a zipper or hood, and a "jacket" is made of, um, jacket material.

[–] Devi@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago
[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

When I was growing up, we called these “sweatshirt jackets.” So, yes.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's down to the material. That looks like full cotton with a hood. So, sweatshirt. Hooded sweatshirt = Hoodie. Denim? Would've been a jacket. Some sort of wind blocking material like polyester or nylon would be a jacket. I might give jacket status to a multilayer cotton jacket with inner liners too.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This kinda rocks my world. I never thought of it being based on the material, no wonder I've always found the whole hoodie / sweatshirt / sweater / jacket think confusing.

Hmmm...still not sure it makes sense to me...

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That's alright. It doesn't matter in the slightest. If you want to call them whatever it doesn't matter.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

nylon

Then it's a windbreaker

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'd classify a windbreaker as a jacket. All squares are rectangles and what not.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
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