Hoodies Is Serious Business

I have many warm and achingly nostalgic memories of hoodies from my childhood strongly associated with my favourite aunt and uncle, who always wore them on our many camping trips. I remember their ubiquity at K-mart type places through the 1980s, but as I recall they weren't really fashionable until sometime around the millenium shift, and they've pretty much stayed around constantly since then.

"I wonder when the hoodie was invented?" I said to wax. She said I could probably find out. (Google before you ask!) One Google later, and...

...As early as the 1930s?

Yesterday wax and I had a Serious Talk About Hoodies. She expressed that hoodies don't look flattering on her, so even though her new hobby is obsessing over emo boys (and their hoodies), which would normally make her be all over hoodies like white on rice, she was planning to just continue to appreciate hoodies vicariously on me. But then I realised that my Amherst hoodie is so giant on me that it would even fit over her boobs, so I made her put it on and it was really cute, although the whole NAME OF LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE IN SATIN element kind of negated any emo value it might otherwise have had. I might be able to make her buy one, though, now. (I only have one - well, two - well, three, counting the Amherst one. Anyway, not that many hoodies. I obviously need more.)

Shoe agenda partially completed! Plain tshirt agenda = snagged.

The shoes are mine!

And wax is really cute in an olive trenchcoat or an olive hoodie. On the minus side, the women's tshirts at H&M this season are this gross type of finely ribbed not-cotton fabric with misshapen shoulders or else the victims of low scoop-necks with gratuitous gathering. Problem! Wax and I want to print tshirts soon (that is, we want to host a tshirt-making gathering, if you guys want to come!). Where to go? Vero Moda? Suggestions, anyone??? Wax can actually wear small H&M men's, but objects to their lack of fittedness. I can wear teenaged boys', in a pinch.