What can a body do [in a hoodie]?
Who wears hoodies? Everybody; “Any body who has style, anyone venturing into the wind or rain, anyone not utterly resistant to the world’s most functional, practical and ubiquitous piece of dress from the last century wears hoodies [ emphasis added ].” By virtue of the garment’s inherent qualities and the physical experience of wearing a hoodie, I intend to reveal that the hoodie is closely associated with the notion that dress is the boundary between the internal self and the external other. By understanding that boundary I argue that Hoodies intensify the enigmatic character of clothes as structures that have the simultaneous ability to hide and disclose the body. Instead of focusing on the political aspects of the hoodie which are already well covered in the literature, I understand the hoodie significantly through phenomenology to offer an account of how the personal becomes political in an unnecessary way. With many hoodies to choose to analyse, none could be more iconic tha