Hooded sweatshirts are traditionally used as a second layer of clothing to warm the body during winter or windy weathers. It is usually designed with a pocket somewhere in the abdominal area and a hood that normally has a drawstring to fit your head and enclose the neck perfectly. The pockets are always made to curve upward because the hoody is worn as the outermost clothing layer, the makers of this clothing made sure that nothing can or will fall off the pockets. 

Since the hooded sweatshirts became popular because of its numerous benefits, people became interested as to where and when did hooded sweatshirts started and originated. It is said that the this clothing piece probably started and was derived from the clothing used by catholic monks during the middle ages. And in the year 1930, manufacturers started innovating the formal robes of the catholic monks and make it less bulkier in look for they started producing hooded sweatshirts for the workers to use during the cold weathers. The manufacturer's name who started making hooded sweatshirts is champion and was said to be located in New York. 

From the day Champion introduced the hooded sweatshirts, more companies followed the trend and made their own versions that is why the styles of a hoody nowadays could not be counted in numbers anymore. Even countries with warm climates also uses the hooded sweatshirts as part of their clothing style and just uses thinner types of fabric so as not to warm the body even more. 

Enumerating some of the available styles of hooded sweatshirts will include sleeveless types, zipped enclosure, tunic type, sporty type and formal type. The hooded sweatshirts can be worn in almost all occasions and venues. Even in offices, you can wear hooded sweatshirts -especially of the fabric for the hoody is crisp and thick, just match it with a formal black slacks and you are sure to create a formal look perfect for an office attire. You can never go wrong with a plain hoody because you can surely match this to other clothing pieces to create different outfits. This will definitely save you money for you do not have to buy different clothing pieces and you do not need to exert more effort to create an outfit because this piece can surely match slacks, denim jeans, leggings, any type of pants, mini skirts, long skirts, shorts and more. All you just have to consider is the fabric and the colors.