This hoodie is so insanely popular you have to wait months to get it
5I just read this article, thought some of the folks that appreciate high quality American-made apparel here at meh might be interested. I’m not connected with The company or anything. The description reminded me of how passionate some folks here are about t-shirt quality. The article says they don’t spend any money on advertising and rely on Word of Mouth, so it seemed like it was worth sharing.
- 15 comments, 39 replies
- Comment
I always thought those were just clickbait link ads.
Will try to read later. My initial thought is it can’t be that much better than the hoodie I could get without waiting months. Maybe they’ll change my mind.
Also from the URL is that article from 2013? I hope everyone got their hoodies by now if so.
@djslack I did Google and there seemed to be a lot of positive links but maybe they are all clickbait. I’m certainly not immune to the stuff. Personally I would never spend that much on a hoodie. I just liked the idea of a plucky American company making a great product.
@moondrake It is a good story and does seem to be a good product. I didn’t mean to seem harsh. I just swear I remember seeing that headline in the stacks of ad/picture links on every clickbait news site a while back. Since they pay a $15 commission per sale, it probably was someone trying to make some affiliate bucks.
I miss the AV club ads
@cranky1950 I was a pre-Kinja lurker. I closed out every day by opening up 15 tabs of new stuff from the AV Club and reading all the comments. Those days are gone now.
Here’s a link to buy the hoodie.
http://www.american-giant.com/classic-full-zip/M1-1A-1-TA-XL.html
I can’t imagine spending $89 on a hoodie. My most expensive one was $60 and that was graciously bought for me at Universal, and it’s branded, so they paid for a bunch of licensing and the fact that you could only buy it at Universal at the time.
@RiotDemon I would have thought Slytherin would be more your style.
@mfladd I’m torn between them.
@RiotDemon Hoodie Torn?
(she is so f’n hot)
@mfladd Nice. Thanks.
@mfladd I have this song stuck in my head now… Thanks a lot.
/sarcasm
@RiotDemon
Arborwear double-thick full zip hoodie has MSRP of $100. I managed to find one out of season on Amazon for $65. Best hoodie I’ve owned. Super warm, extra durable, and SO comfy. For someone like me who’s always cold, this was money well spent.
@ruouttaurmind
Always cold? Even in the hottest days in summer? Even outside?
@f00l Not outside in the summer. For me, the problem with living in the desert in the summertime is the air conditioning. Everywhere I go has the thermostat cranked down so low I believe they are attempting to counteract global warming. If I go to a movie, or out to the casino for the afternoon I have to bring a jacket with me or I will be uncomfortable to the point I will have to leave.
I think I may have mentioned it to you once before, but I think it might be related to the huge weight loss I experienced about 10 years ago. I think I screwed up my metabolism by losing so much weight so quickly. But who knows. I’m no doctor.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind I think they want to be able to say the average temperature here is 75, so when it’s 100 outside they make it 50 inside.
@ruouttaurmind I have had no significant weight gain or loss (except temporarily around cancer crap) and I have decided I come from a long, honorable line of radiator sitters (as in sitting on one so as not to freeze). I always bring a jacket with me in the summer since I am convinced the actual goal is to freeze you in the store as some sort of “will you buy more since you are so cold you can’t move quickly, rather than leave as soon as possible and buy less” experiment. I think didn’t like the results (leave faster and buy less) so they are repeating it over and over hoping for different results.
http://gear.lifehacker.com/your-favorite-hoodie-is-the-flint-tinder-10-year-hood-1793379246 I have the Flint and Tinder. The quality is hood over heels above your average sweater. I personally wouldn’t spend $98 on a hoodie but am sure glad my wife bought me one for X-mas 2 years ago. The only downside is she steals it every single time it’s sweater weather as it’s the most comfortable thing in our house.
@rekdtaco A star for “hood over heels.”
I’ve definitely seen some ads for them, so that aspect has changed over the years.
The downside to a well made product is that it doesn’t need replacing. The customer buys it once and they’re not buying another one for years and years down the line.
This is like the Bose of hoodies. Great marketing. I’ve been researching hoodies for the past few days and think Ill go with the Carhartt brand zip up. I may try one of these on eBay ($40ish range) just to see if the hype is real.
Well, here’s a couple of thoughts…
Business Insider won’t let you read an article if you run an ad blocker. If your ads are more intrusive than the ones Adblock Plus allows by default, then I don’t need your website. Q.E.D.: I didn’t read the article.
I’ve bought several hoodies from Woot over the years. They are all well-constucted, warm, and comfortable. They fit well, they wear well, and some were custom printed. All of them were well under $30. An $89 hoodie? Pf-f-f-f-f-f-ft! For that money, it better suck, and I don’t mean in a bad way, but in the sense of a Willie Nelson Keno girl.
(OK, “a couple” was metaphorical.) High quality isn’t determined by site of origin. American Apparel was high quality, in the same sense as Harvey Weinstein. Japanese steel and German diesels are now questionable. But iPhones are made in China. Quality is built in, not hyped on. My dad told me, “Always advertise your weak points, because your strong points will sell themselves.” If a company promotes quality, reliability, etc., maybe that’s a sign to look closer or dig deeper.
OTOH, I do like a good hoodie…
@2many2no
LOL
Hmm, having put this together for y’all, I now find I couldn’t care less!
@aetris So, from what I’m gathering, it costs a lot. I’m guessing that’s an attractive feature for pretentious douche-canoes. I have serious doubts that any differences between that hoodie and the $20 hoodies from Old Navy would be any different, and if it is, I doubt it’s $70 worth of difference.
The fact that some Apple Engineer worked on it makes me want it even less.
@capguncowboy - Well, the fact that an Apple engineer worked on it means that it’s well-designed, marketed for hipness, and remarkably expensive. If it was created by Microsoft it would be much cheaper but would be designed to pair with Microsoft pants, the zipper would have a vulnerability that would let hackers open it remotely, the pockets would be full of ads for Microsoft partners, and the first time you put it on you would find pre-attached Microsoft gloves in a weird size.
@aetris instead, it’ll just be incompatible with all of your other clothes
@capguncowboy Incompatible clothing … for some of us, that’s like an everyday occurrence.
As for price differences, at least I won’t be advertising for Old Navy. I’m not exactly fond of brands in huge lettering plastering my clothing. Country of origin is some (but nowhere close to all) of the difference also. None of my AA hoodies or sweatshirts cost anywhere near what these sell for.
@narfcake
I’m not a fan of having brand names of any kind on any of my clothing. Really, I only shop at Old Navy because they offer Tall sizes (36" inseam, longer shirts)… The pitfalls of being 6’5"
Check out the hoodie that 9 out of 10 seamstresses don’t want you to have.
Pretty sure I
the mysterious guy that gave me this hoodie ☺ 
@DrLysergic not sure if i must link, so in case https://johnnycupcakes.com/collections/all/products/classic-crossbones-pullover?variant=279213768
@DrLysergic I’m not sure for the hoodies, but up until the end of last year, the Johnny Cupcakes t-shirts were sourced from American Apparel.
By their cut, seams, and country of origin, the current ones appear to be sourced from Next Level.
@narfcake Thanks for the info Narf, I know better than to buy AA, just don’t fit ye olde mold
the name by the way 
I took family so they could get wicked in Boston too, so I tried not to be bummed not knowing of the product size/changes.
I’m hoping like heck it will shrink up because it’s way long and it’s unfortunately shaped more manly/slim line, me… not so much. I just assumed the same size M hoodie would fit.
I do love the nice fleecy inside though. The girl at the hotel did seem to enjoy the pants
/image spammy
“Passionate about t-shirt quality” is a phrase that has never been stated by anyone outside of a t-shirt advertisement.
@phineasgage A good number here are (former) Wooters, and going by the 1700+ posts in this thread …
https://shirt.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=4856801
… it matters.
Also read the write up here:
@narfcake thanks for the backup. There have been similar conversations here on meh but I have no idea how to search the forums and it isn’t all that important. @phineasgage I never paid any attention to TShirts much till I started reading posts by aficionados here and on Woot. I was surprised by how important composition, style, manufacturer, country of origin, weight, etc were to some folks. Learn something new every day.
@moondrake That is very passionate!
@moondrake I care about that and I don’t know shit about it. All I know is I hesitate to buy t-shirts online unless I have seen it in real life as I hate these thin, too stretchy, tight fitting, partly see through t-shirts as they have cheapened the fabric (eg the fabric version of a half a gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts at the same price - be we will never see thick, nice t-shirts as the t-shirt fabric standard ever again any more than a half gallon of ice cream will return to a half gallon)
@Kidsandliz The thick ones are out there; the corollary is that they’re usually thicker because of its construction method. Carded open-end yarns include the short fibers and impurities that are otherwise removed through combing. If stated, look at the fabric weight; under 5 oz. is lighter weight, 5+ oz. is typically COE and heavier weight.
As for the cut, more often than not, if the shirt is called out as “classic fit”, it’s going to be heavier and bulkier. “Fashion fit” tends to means it’ll be slimmer fitting.
@narfcake Thanks.
@Kidsandliz Bluebell ice cream (really the only legitimate kind there is) remains 1/2 gallon
@tightwad I don’t really like bluebell though - there are brands I like better. I think that brand tastes too watered down, although not as bad as some of the generics.
@Kidsandliz T-shirts from The Mountain are quite thick by contrast to my other t-shirts. They’re the only t-shirts I actually spend money on as I love the art. All my other t-shirts find their way to me. I get a lot of them as convention and movie promos, and others from organizations I’m affiliated with. Some as gifts. Several times a year they have discounts with free shipping sales.
Fascinating.
And yet, as you say, “it isn’t all that important”.
@phineasgage Both of these are men’s larges. One of these is brand new and unworn.
The other was a 6 years old shirt, washed/worn/dried many times. It’s important.
Likewise, both of these washed and worn. One is 6+ years old and a men’s small, the other was two months old and a men’s XL, which per its specs, was 3" longer (when it was new).
Also:
http://blog.bellacanvas.com/t-shirt-jargon-101-dissecting-the-tee/
@narfcake Wow. That’s, like, I don’t know, incredible. And to think that they are actually t-shirts! That is incredible!! You must be so passionate! I am beginning to feel passionate as well!
@narfcake That is so passionate!
@phineasgage For clarity, I was saying it wasn’t important to search the forums for further examples of t-shirt passion, not that the passion itself isn’t important. I don’t care much about t-shirts personally, but I care a lot about other things that would be deemed unimportant by the broader society. So I wouldn’t care to invalidate the importance some put on tshirts.
I am so passionate about t-shirts!
You’ll be shocked when you see how these hoodies are made!
@medz I am still waiting to find out.
@mfladd Click here to learn 10 simple tricks to past the time while waiting. #7 will blow your mind!
@medz I always knew there was something different about him!