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.

Justin (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