Completely gone from my head is the name of these things…
I associate them with Dead Heads, head shops, hippy culture in general. Heavy woven jackets from Mexico, worked great as an overshirt in the spring… They have hoods, big pocket in the front…
Hopefully someone knows what I mean?
(Theoretically this could go in GQ but… it’s way too mundane)
Hoodies. Unless I’ve missed some cultural programming message, which is entirely possible given my life up to now.
Poncho?
I was gonna add - not a poncho. And not a hoodie as you currently would define a hoodie.
Like a poncho, but … well, not. Square - shaped like a T basically. Long sleeves. Coarse fabric…
Dunno if this link will work, but hopefully it will show you a thumbnail of the thing I am talking about.
It’s a surf or baja pullover.
Oh, shit there’s another name for them too. Now it’s going to drive me nuts trying to remember! It’s from when they got popular up here in the mid- to late-80s. Arg. I’ll remember at three in the morning.
Dammit! I keep thinking of “henley” which is a totally different style of shirt!
I’m reminded of this post from the brain fart thread:
Henley!! 
Gah! It’s gonna drive me nuts. And it may have been a regional thing too. But, similar to “henley” (which is that shirt with a box neck collar and two buttons), we called them by a word that sounded like a name. You know, “Let’s to the head shop and buy a henley and a Kendall.” Like the vintage clothing store that had all the “Henleys and Harveys from Peru.”
What the hell did we call them???
At the time, you didn’t get all the loopy colour combinations like the current baja pullovers. They tended to be woven of thick, but fairly uniform thread, and there was no “baja” about them.
I’ve heard em called ‘Drug Rugs’.
In the Southeastern US, they were called “bajas.”
I own and wear a baja. That’s what we call them here in MA. But I do sort of remember another name for them when I was younger and they were first “in”. (yah, yah, I’m an old hippie.) The ones I’ve always seen are either blue and white or just shades of beige/off white. Now I’m going to go nuts trying to figure out the other name.
Here’s a picture of one.
Yep, we called 'em bajas in high school (late 80s). In fact, I still have one hanging in my closet, with a big Corona logo on the back . . . it hasn’t fit in years, but I keep it around for sentimental reasons. 
It wasn’t also called a “kelly,” was it?
Dang! I’m probably still just stuck on “henley.” :smack:
Where I grew up (Southern California, '70s and '80s) we called them “Senor Lopez jackets.” Somebody had to enlighten me that they were also called bajas–I’d never heard that before. I just found one recently, for the low low price of $14.95, and was quite pleased.
Are you thinking of ‘dashiki’?
I call mine Bob.
Another vote for baja. Bought mine in Albuquerque-old town a few years ago.
