# Hoodies **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoodies/834721 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [May 29, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoodies/834721 "2019-05-29T17:40:50Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 33
### Author: ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker) #### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoodies/834721/33 "2019-05-30T14:02:18Z")
[From a previous thread:](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871501) > [@Things You Learned/Figured Out At A Surprisingly Advanced Age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-figured-out-at-a-surprisingly-advanced-age/830249/20): > > I grew up calling a hooded sweatshirt a hooded sweatshirt. When my kids were young, one of them used the word “hoodie”, and I corrected what I thought was baby-talk. Apparently I was the last person in the US to know the word hoodie. > [@Things You Learned/Figured Out At A Surprisingly Advanced Age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-learned-figured-out-at-a-surprisingly-advanced-age/830249/21): > > I think you and I are of the same generation, and hooded sweatshirts weren’t called “hoodies” when we were growing up. I don’t know when the term was coined - I \*think \*my first exposure might have been the Trayvon Martin case- but Adam Sandler was still referring to his “Red Hooded Sweatshirt” in 1997. And “hoodie” does sound like baby-talk. Déjà vu all over again. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoodies/834721)._