hoodies.what are they???????

[northboy]

what is it really all about.
1.the fashion
2.music.
is it supposed to be a gangster type of thing.
pretending to be hard,how can they afford all this designer stuff.
wish i could afford it.
what does it all represent

[Theland]

It is their answer to CCTV cameras, to maintain their anonymity. Just yobs that need hugs and lots of tender loving care and understanding .... then maybe they'd take the hoods down.

[Romeo]

I visited a neighbourhood once where there were guys in hoods everywhere, and they kept chanting songs and hanging around in gardens. Oh yes, I think it was called a monastery :-)

[reachesme]

A suit dosn't make a man, stereo typing hooded tops is pathetic. people who believe this will do any good are just plain bloody stupid. What is the world coming to?

[leelapops]

reachesme-I'll second that!

Fashion doesn't necessarily dictate behaviour/personality etc.
I wear my hair short, and am often seen in trousers, not skirt: am I gay, the sterotypical personification of a lesbian woman?

It is misleading and dangerous to imply (and act on the implication) that particular features give people an advantage or disadvantage (see Murray's ideas in the Bell Curve around black people being less intelligent than white people, for example).
Sorry, northboy, not sure I was answering your question so much as just having a little rant! It would be nice to afford nice stuff, as a working student it takes all my household income just to survive, and only recently have we afforded a little more. But I guess it's a lifestyle choice. If the "they" you are referring to are the stereotype of "hoodies" as a name for a collective, and not for the jumper with a hood, then, well, maybe they work? And choose to spend their money on things that make them look and feel good?

Lisa x