Ninja Type Hoodie mask Blank Plain sweatshirt    US $29.00

NEW LADIES WOMENS PLAIN HOODIE HOODED ZIP TOP SWEATSHIRT JACKET COAT SIZE 8 14    US $19.74

NEW BLACK Hoodie Hooded Sweat Jumper PLAIN No Logo MEDIUM    US $14.20

I'll be perfectly honest with you, when I need a new sweatshirt, I usually just head on down to my local wally world and pick one up for oh, I don't know, about $8.95. That being said, this is 2010, and I know that our society is all about the brand names. My 14 year old daughter won't even think about wearing something that doesn't come from American Eagle or Hollister.

So part of the reason I'm building this site is to help highlight some of the cool places that you can find deals on, and/or hard to find designer brand black hoodies here on the interwebs.

Now obviously, I'm not just going to pull this list right out of my butt and have it ready to go. So we're just gonna start off nice and slow with the big and obvious places. Then as I discover more, I'll add to this list, and maybe even make a blog post or two about it.

Til then, Happy Shopping ...

Hoodie Varsity Letterman College Baseball Jacket BLACK    US $38.61

POLO RALPH LAUREN HOODIE SWEATSHIRT SZ XXL BLACK    US $20.49

Enyce 2XL Black Jogging Suit Sweat Suit NWT Hoodie    US $50.99

STRIKING MENS FOX BLACK LIME SPEEDFREK ZIIP HOODY SZ M NWT AUTHENTIC    US $17.00

Nike Therma Fit Big Mans 4X XXXXL Black Tan Hoodie Pullover Sweatshirt Sharp    US $30.20

New York Jets Hoodie Black New size XXL    US $44.99

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