You Need A Sweatshirt? Let Me Help!
Fleece Vs. French Terry
On Friday a friend texted me:
I am looking for the perfect crew neck sweatshirt that is cozy and maybe kinda loose, but also looks professional-ish, that I can wear to work. I’m mad this doesn’t exist in my closet.
I was eager to rise to the occasion because I find myself wearing sweatshirts a lot these days. Some mornings it is still warm enough to walk the dog in just a sweatshirt. In the evenings it is the perfect layer under a light coat. It’s great for moving woodchips with a wheelbarrow when there’s a bit of chill in the air. Also good for sitting on the couch and not leaving your house at all!
And the perfect sweatshirt is not easy to find—there are so many different ways a sweatshirt can fail. I loved Haley’s philosophical consideration of why other people’s sweatshirts always look cozier:
To reckon with other people’s sweatshirts, then, we must first reckon with desire itself—with our propensity to seek in others what we must seek within: comfort, solace, security. A certain sturdiness around the neck. And then, more fundamentally, we must acknowledge the flaw in our longing from the very beginning: Other people’s sweatshirts can never be ours.
So, this post goes out to my friend and any of you who are also looking for some coziness to call our own.
After the paywall:
The sweatshirts I currently have in my closet
A whole bunch of sweatshirts I am coveting—including some stellar secondhand options
A couple of cool DIYs
Your sweatshirt recs in the comments
