You might have noticed that I haven’t been posting many items of sleeved clothing recently, which is pretty odd since hoodies are the backbone of HYA, but when I’m spending my days wearing shorts and a t-shirt, sitting by lakes enjoying a cool beverage, writing about hoodies doesn’t make a huge amount of sense. I’ll keep posting about them, just not as much as usual whilst its as hot as it is at the moment.

At the very least, today’s hoodie recommendation comes in a cool and refreshing colourway, which is probably why I’m inclined to post it on a day when I literally can’t see a cloud in the sky out of the window.

Costiness=$119 Link

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Tags » blue • geometric • hoodie • Karmaloop • subcript

It’s been an incredibly long time since we last took a look at Lenko, and thankfully they’re packing a catalogue filled with cool, if slightly bizarre designs. Unfortunately their pics are a bit small so its pretty hard to make out the details, but I think we can get the gist of it.

The text reads “Have you noticed the squirrels are stocking up on canned goods?” I haven’t, around more area I have spotted a lot more of the damned grey squirrels and a lot less of the native red squirrels, but that’s probably beside the point… probably.

Costiness=AU$69 Link

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Tags » Australia • funny • green • hoodie • squirrel • Womens

Caliroots have brought it once again (you really can’t stop those Swedes) with this great allover hoodie by Rocksmith. I’m a fan of contrasts, and putting this neon green up with that somber black is pretty freakin’ sweet. The hood lining looks pretty interesting too, although its rather odd that they would decide to add in grey to the colour palette just for the hood, personally I think that black would be better suited just to keep everything flowing nicely.

Costiness=1199SEK (almost $200, ouch) Link

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Tags » allover • black • caliroots • contrast • hoodie • Mens • rocksmith • sweden

You can always spot a continental European streetwear company a mile off, can’t you? They just have a certain look and style, usually pretty simple styling, which somehow manages to be both loud and subdued at the same time, even though that is a complete oxymoron. Ucon, a Berlin-based streetwear label, are more on the subdued end of things, focusing more upon high-quality designs rather than something that shows that wearer to be craving attention. This hoodie for example, it’s simple, just two colours and a bit of striping for interest, but I like it, I’d like to wear it with a bright t-shirt underneath, a bright t-shirt that shows that I crave attention (now who’s an oxymoron!).Costiness=€69.95 Link

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Tags » berlin • black • Germany • grey • hoodie • Mens • stripes • ucon

It’s not often that you see a hoodie which has shoulder straps on it, in fact I don’t think I can’t recall ever seeing one, which makes this hoodie from Freshjive quite the novelty. Other than the shoulder straps it is a fairly simple hoodie, with the exception of ‘Freshjive’ being written on the lower back, in a style which is a bit too gangster for me, but the black/heather grey contrast works pretty well.

Costiness=$112 Link (get up to 20% off your order by using the rep code AS7594 and support HYA in the process)

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Tags » freshjive • grey • heather • hoodie • Karmaloop • shoulderstraps

I’m always surprised by how much Cheap Monday’s stuff costs, admittedly, Caliroots is a Swedish store and those Swedes always have to pay more than pretty much everywhere else, but I don’t think that a company selling a hoodie for $100 can really call themselves Cheap Monday.

It is a cool looking hoodie though, I haven’t featured an all over print for quite a long time and I think that raindrops, multi-coloured or otherwise, really lend themselves well to this kind of print. The print continues inside and outside of the hood as well, which is always good to see.

Costiness=600 SEK (around $100) Link

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Tags » caliroots • cheap monday • grey • hoodie • mens womens • rain • raindrops • sweden

See guys, I told you that I liked funnel hoodies!I’m not actually all that excited by the pattern on this piece, it kind of looks like you’ve already had it for years when you first get the parcel, and the way that they’ve tried to match up the two sides going across the zip is pretty lame, but for some reason I still like it overall. Possibly because if I were going to be a bandit, I probably would own an old hoodie, and I’d probably be too busy dealing with bandit related business to be concerned with the pattern not lining up across the zipper.

Costiness=$105 Link (here’s something new, you can get up to 20% off your order by using the rep code AS7594, amazing!)

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Tags » black • cardboard robot • funnel • grey • hoodie • Karmaloop • pattern • Womens

Alliteration overload! Alliteration overload!

I’ve noticed a few blogs out there do a ‘Flickr Friday’ post where they write about something that they found on Flickr, so I thought I’d give it a go after spotting this great hoodie. I think its just a mock up, so not actually for sale, but it does look pretty cool, I’m sure you’ll agree. Hopefully the artist won’t mind me using this ‘all rights reserved’ pic since I’m full of praise for his design, and because the ‘blog this’ option had been left on the image.

Family Force 5 by Chris Rushing

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Tags » • flickr • grey • hoodie • mockup

Oooh, you logo haters and not gonna be happy with this one, there’s about forty logos on this hoodie, although I think that its quite cool that KR3W have used lots of different versions of their logo, so perhaps you wouldn’t feel like as much of a billboard as usual if you were to slip this item on.

There’s more logos in the hood lining as well, which I think looks quite cool since as you know I’m a fan of labels doing anything interesting with the inside of the hood, and to put a print on instead of just a different colour fabric is a pleasant change of pace.

Costiness=$72 Link

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Tags » fleece • grey • hoodie • hoodlining • Karmaloop • KR3W • logo

Naketano are another of the brands that I bookmarked for posting years ago, only to forget that they existed, so when they got in touch a couple of days ago I was happy to receive the e-mail and check them out again. The simple yet pleasing style that I enjoyed so much when I last checked them out is still there, I’m happy to report, although the guys will still be a little disappointed to find that Naketano is still a no-go zone for us, unless you’re really skinny and can get away with womens clothing (most of the designs aren’t particularly feminine, though the cut probably is).

One really cool thing about this hoodie is that the stripes running across it aren’t actually printed, they’re stitched, which I think gives it a bit of a quality look. They’ve picked a surprisingly complimentary colourway for the stripes (pastels work together? who knew!) which is great for those of you that would like a bit of colour and brightness without going overboard.

Costiness=€74.90 Link

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Tags » black • Germany • hoodie • hot model • naketano • Womens