It’s time to reconsider the hoodie. Yes, that hoodie, the bottom shelf of closet staples beloved by snooze-hitting high schoolers (who more often than not accidentally adorn it with permanent marker or pizza grease). Sure, it’s both the hamper-scraping choice of sweaty skater kids who don’t care about your shrubs and will kickflip into your lawn and the lazy lowbrow disguise of choice for hungover celebrities making Gatorade runs at their local bodegas. And yes, it’s pretty much the slacker uniform of apathy and exhaustion. But it is far from exhausted.
Like the tracksuit before it, this latest poster child for sloppy insouciance has made a serious fashion-forward leap of a comeback, largely thanks to the heavily buzzed-about label Vetements, who first revitalized the piece in Fall 2015. The brand even christened a major pantless street style trend, as its black fleece piece was so oversized that it acted as a thigh-skimming dress on the likes of Kendall Jenner and Rihanna—the latter wore the look sans trou, à la the catwalk, and later with the barest hint of a silk slip.
Good news for those in search of comfortable layers: With its newest collection, Vetements has continued to champion the hoodie. This time, it was wadded up in the middle in a scrunched and wrapped, makeshift waist-cinching maneuver, whether in hunter green layered over a lavender slip dress with Champion-inspired insignias on the breast, or in heather gray on top of a denim miniskirt and cuissardes-as-leggings. One was even emblazoned with imagery from Titanic, replete with the phrase “Coming Soon” running down the sleeves, a nod to the streetwear stalwarts from the likes of Supreme and Thrasher.
And the hoodie’s revival hasn’t gone unnoticed on the street, either: A few days after Vetements presented its vision for Spring 2016, a harried showgoer was captured in a fervent orange slip dress with a navy blue hoodie slipped on top, giving the sluggish go-to a rushed dose of seemingly deliberate off-duty chic. The moral of the story here? The next time you are thinking about tossing that worn-out hoodie, don’t: Use it instead as a quick fix to update your ensemble. It’s a look you can gladly sleep in for—without looking like you rolled out of bed.
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