Plain Black Hoodie » Life http://plainblackhoodie.com Affordable and Fashionable Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:39:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Will You Wear A Black Hoodie as a Halloween Costume? http://plainblackhoodie.com/black-hoodie-halloween-costume/ http://plainblackhoodie.com/black-hoodie-halloween-costume/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:14:15 +0000 hoodie http://plainblackhoodie.com/?p=48 Halloween is less than 3 weeks away, and I don't have a costume yet. Fortunately, I do have a couple of black hoodies in the closet. In a pinch like this, I don't see any reason why I should go out and spent a lot of money on an adult Halloween costume. With a plain black hooded sweatshirt and some strategic face painting, I'm sure I could easily be a pretty convincing skeleton or zombie. Or heck, since we all know how fond criminals are of black hoodies, I could always just pretend to be a future jail bird. :-)

In past years, I haven't bothered to dress up. I just push the stroller and walk along with all the the other parents. However, this year will be one of my kid's last year of trick or treating (he's getting too old), and another ones first year that she will remember (was only 3 months old last year). As such, it would be a shame not to get into the spirit. I'm not quite sure what type of costumes the kids will wear ... that's a decision that my wife will make, and I probably have very little say in. Somehow I doubt they'll be wearing plain black hoodies ... but I have seen some pretty cool fleece hooded costumes in the store around town.

It's probaby a moot point anyway ... I wouldn't be at all shocked if we end up with something along the lines of a Ninja, Hanna Montana, and Baby Bop. In any case, I think I'm probably looking forward to the candy as much as the kids are.

So what will you and your kids be wearing this all hallow's eve?

]]> http://plainblackhoodie.com/black-hoodie-halloween-costume/feed/ 0 Sometimes It’s Hard To Find A Plain Black Hoodie http://plainblackhoodie.com/plain-black-hoodie-hard-to-find/ http://plainblackhoodie.com/plain-black-hoodie-hard-to-find/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:12:15 +0000 hoodie http://plainblackhoodie.com/?p=36 Have you ever gone out shopping for a nice plain hooded sweat shirt, and all you could find were either very expensive name brand hoodies ... or even worse, ones with fancy designs or even sequins all over them.

My son and I ran into this problem a couple of months ago when we were still in Hawaii. We went down to the Aloha Staduim flea market to get him a nice black hoodie to wear on the plane, during his trip back to the main land. I swear we must have been there for two hours, and gone to every booth in the market. The ironic thing is, we'd just been there a couple of weeks earlier, and at that time practically every vendor had racks full of sweat shirts. But on this day, they were few and far between.

skateboard airJustin (my son) is really into skateboarding, so we were hoping we might find something by DC or Element for a little less than the $75+ that a name brand sweatshirt like that would cost us in the mall stores. But is seems like all they had at the stadium were dragons patterns, and "gansta gear". lol, there was even one zip-hoodie with a big marijuana leaf on the back. Of course the boy liked that one, but I could only imagine the phone call I would have gotten from his mom (my ex) as soon as he stepped off the plane.

In the end, we eventually found a booth, with plain hoodies. Of course, they were hiding way back behind piles of t-shirts, and we had to dig through the stacks, before we found a dark blue zippered one in Justin's size. We gave the guy his $18, and were on our way.

We might not have gotten the plain black hoodie we set out in search of, but all-in-all, it was a successful shopping trip.

Todd

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