Hoodies Vs. Sweaters

Fashion is as important in today's society as it has ever been. Most people care about what they wear and how they look on a daily basis no matter what season it is. In the summer girls may want to go buy the newest and prettiest sundress and a guy could possibly want that new designer t-shirt. When it begins to get cold out you are forced to switch around your wardrobe. Depending on what type of person you are you will start to wear either a hoodie sweatshirt or a sweater. These two pieces of clothing may seem similar but really they are not the same at all.

Hoodie: This form of a sweatshirt serves you to keep you warm when it starts to get cold out. When it begins to get cold out in Happy Valley you will see all different types of hoodies being warn by many different students. Hoodies are very practical for a few different reasons. Hoodies obviously have a hood, but also have a string to adjust the tightness of your hood. Personally I get annoyed at times when a sweatshirt does not have a hood. When it is raining or even windy out I find myself urning for a hood to keep my head warm and keep the rain off my head. Also, hoodies almost always have a large frontal pocket. This pocket can serve to either hold something as any pocket would but also you can keep your hands inside to keep them warm. Someone who wears a hoodie may not care about fashion quite as much as someone who would wear a a sweater

Sweater: A sweater serves the same basic purpose as a hoodie sweatshirt does, and that is to keep you warm. Although that is true there are many differences between these two forms of sweatshirts. Sweaters don't have those functional factors that hoodies do. Although sweaters keep you warm when it gets cold out, sweaters don't have hoods, they don't have pockets and overall they are just not as useful as hoodies are. Sweaters have an aspect to them that raise themselves above the hoodie and that is that they are more fashionable. You would never wear a hoodie out to a fancy dinner, but that is not at all the case with a nice wool sweater. The type of person that would wear a hoodie my be considered more "preppy" or upperclass. I am personally not the type of person that would a sweater on a daily basis, but I do choose to wear hoodies nearly every chilly day. I would really only wear a sweater for something like a fancy dinner or if it were the holidays.