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Oversized Hoodies
Heavy cotton oversized hoodies with dropped shoulders and boxy cuts from independent boutiques and streetwear designers.
An oversized hoodie is a heavy fleece or knit top cut wide through the chest with dropped shoulders to hang loosely off the body. The silhouette relies on deliberate proportion, balancing dense loopback cotton against the drape of wide trousers or straight denim. Shades like oat, tan and black let the sculptural volume lead without visual noise.
The hoodie began in the nineteen thirties, when Champion sold hooded sweatshirts to workers in the cold of upstate New York. Hip hop in New York took it up in the seventies and eighties, and skaters and surfers spread it across the western United States, above all in California. Balenciaga hoodies here are cut oversized, while Essentials, the lower priced sister line of Jerry Lorenzo's Fear of God, comes in muted shades like oatmeal.
Heavy fleece hoodies, knitwear and long sleeves form the foundation of this shape, pairing naturally under structured outerwear or over loose cotton tees. Utopia in Toronto brings Essentials, Balenciaga, Yeezy, Chrome Hearts and Fear of God, some of it pre owned. Due West in Toronto brings Represent, Purple Brand and COOR, and WDLT117 in Toronto brings hoodies from Avavav and Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY.
