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.

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    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
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      6 months ago

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