‘Hoodies’: Historical and Contemporary…
Sam Mwaka-Karama
Mediaeval
Europe – due perhaps to excessive cold first came-up with the clothing design; Cowl and Chaperon. Hood!
Monks then
wore long robes with large and floppy Hoods that covered the head and
shaded-off much of the face.
Early labor
clothing designs of the Industrial and construction masonry age might have
influenced the attachment of the hood on to workers coveralls and overalls –
this mostly due to winter conditions.
By the 1930s
– American outdoor clothing company: ‘Champion’ rolled-out the first workers
hooded fur-lined jackets and popularized the hood. Tough clothing and dungarees
for ‘Hell Jobs’ and sports like
mountaineering and Ocean Whale hunting and mining or old fashioned oil rigging.
Modern
Hood
otherwise properly took-off in the 1970s; In Europe the ‘Yuppies’ and in
America the ‘Hip Hop’ set the trends that was picked up by ‘Windbreaker’
designers of sporting wears…
Then came
Rocky and several of the Stallone movies to guarantee the place of the hood in
the sports and Blockbuster action clothing design…
The hidden characteristic
of the spirituality which is its root – religion; was glamorized in Star Wars.
That element of anonymity in the brooding life of the monk was glimpsed in
science fiction then.
In
Christianity, ancient clothing seem always to have a drape over the head – as is
seen in most artists works of Christ.
The Hood,
clearly divine – is therefore attractive to people who like to be anonymous.
Perhaps that is why most dread-locked Rastas… find it trendy to have their
heads covered in the hood.
So that the
obvious psychological factor associated to anyone who constantly maintain that
hood dress code is known as a ‘Hoodie’. A person who is hiding his true self. A
person who may be of double personage. A character who is Hateful. A person who is dreadful. 
A negatively
humble and unpleasing deceptively quiet person is also a ‘Hoodie’ or even worse
a ‘Hoodoo’.
‘Dupel Ganger’ characters are mostly spiritually
manipulated people. Unknown to themselves, they are unfree…
Most
Africans “Hoodies” living abroad are highly ignorant persons, who don’t have an
idea what or who “Hoodie” or “Hoodoo” really are!*** 
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