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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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

According to the TSA, it's a jacket. Ask me how I know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How do you know ? Does it involve cavity search ?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

That's a zippered hoodie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The tag on the one I wear says sweatshirt on it.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I really like these because they're convenient. I call them a hoodie.

Then I realised I never use the hood and it's kinda uncomfortable when you put a jacket on in winter

So I bought one without a hood

That was the day I realised I'd bought what was essentially my first cardigan :(

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Jacket. But also hoodie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That particular thing is a hoodie. Without the hood it's a jacket. Without a zip (as in, it goes over your head to put it on) it's a jumper. I think sweatshirt is an American word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just call a hoodie without a zipper a pullover hoodie.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sounds like it!

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sweatshirt_n?tl=true

The earliest known use of the noun sweatshirt is in the 1920s.

OED's earliest evidence for sweatshirt is from 1929, in Sears, Roebuck Catalogue.

EDIT: I never really thought about the word until now, realized that it's a portmanteau of "sweater" and "shirt".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I would not call it at all.

(because I know already that it won't come :-))

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It does sound better than a jackshirt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Sweatshirts are double-layered pullovers, typically non-woven. Sweaters are single-layer pullovers, typically knit. Jackets have buttons or zippers. Hoodies have hoods and are made of fabric (e.g. raincoats are not hoodies).

You can have hoodies that are also sweatshirts, or hoodies that are also jackets.

This garment pictured in your post is a jacket. It is also a hoodie. It is neither a sweatshirt nor a sweater.

This is just my interpretation of the situation. I don't know of any formal classification system for outerwear.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ugh, I spent entirely too much time arguing this when I was still in school, ironically the most time we spent arguing with men that were more than twice my age and felt way too strongly about this.

This is the right answer and I will not be taking any questions: 🙃

  • If it comes as a set with matching bottoms(or a gold chain) = Tracksuit/Sweatsuit

  • Light single layer + hood = hoodie

  • Light (single layer) + zipper/buttons + no hood = Jacket

  • Light (single layer) + knitted = sweater or sweater jacket if it opens

  • The other lighter layers with no hardware are just pullover

  • Heavier outterwear = Coat

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You wrote all of that and left out the one in the picture

It’s a zip up hoodie

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

That my friend, is called a hoodie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Jackets, often, but not always. Track jackets, windbreaker jackets, shell jackets, etc. Light jackets and coats without lining are pretty easy to find. I even have a light sport coat with no lining.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

More importantly, where is OP based that this has become a debate with two wrong answers?!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The only true answer

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

It's a hoodie.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'd call it a "hoodie".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodie

A hoodie (in some cases spelled hoody[1] and alternatively known as a hooded garment)[2] is a type of sweatshirt[1] with a hood that partially or fully covers the wearer's head or face.

Wikipedia says that the zipper can be a defining characteristic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacket

List of jackets

  • Hoodie, a zippered hooded sweatshirt (non zippered can be considered a sweatshirt only)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I insisted on calling them this throughout high school because I thought the word hoodie was dumb. Tbh I was probably annoying about it. Eventually I caved, but I still think hoodie is kind of a dumb word. So is jumper for what it's worth.

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