Garments You Can't Seem to Find

It's getting chillier, and I decide that I could use a sweatshirt to throw on for things like walking the dog. Not a hoodie, nothing zippered or cardigan-style, just a simple old-school 1950s-gym-style pullover sweatshirt. If ever there were a reason to go to American Apparel, this is it. I go to American Apparel: they do not carry such things anymore. They sell button-downs and overpriced fake Levis now, but not sweatshirts. I sputter in disbelief at them: b-b-but that's, like, what you sell, I thought!

Four or five stores later, I still have not come across a plain solid-colored no-print pullover sweatshirt.

I blame: HOODIE HEGEMONY

Go to like an Oshman's or Dick's Sporting Goods or Academy (not sure which if any of these is in yr area). Russel, Hanes, Nike, Fruit of the Loom all make these. I love em and they seem to be easy to find where I live.

wait what kind of dog is it

the boys' dept. at sears. my favorite pullover sweatshirts have come from there. thanks to the childhood obesity epidemic, a reasonable-sized adult can easily fit into the larger sizes.

i'm sure you can get one at wal-mart

Maybe try a sporting goods store, for a Champion brand plain one?

Haha Jordan that is a perverse joke: I will admit that my inability to find this item is totally a Manhattan issue.

I've looked in at sporting-goods places and Foot Lockers and whatnot, but they're always low on plain ones, and they always have too much touristy elastic around the waist and cuffs, and are generally ... umm, maybe my problem here is that I'm looking for a semi-stylish sweatshirt. Hence the American Apparel anger: the ONE main thing that place had going for it was that you could at least buy something like a good-looking plain sweatshirt.

P.S. It is a Havanese, but the sweatshirt doesn't need to match the dog or anything

RIP Braniff t-shirt

http://store.americanapparel.net/5452.html ?
http://store.americanapparel.net/5495.html ?
http://store.americanapparel.net/rsafs497.html ?
http://store.americanapparel.net/mt497.html ?
http://store.americanapparel.net/5497.html ?

Not a hoodie

or maybe try uniqlo or h&m?

ahhhhhhh

http://www.oipolloi.com/oipolloi/gfx-items/2210-d2.jpg

A.P.C. too pricey?

i love havaneses. those tails!

kmart boys dept. may be a manhattan option.

Just cut off the damn hoodie.

also - ha ha! you have to walk a girly dog!

i was just being a jerk/trying to be funny re: the dog. and i gotta say--yeah i don't see these sorts of things anymore. it's all hoodies

Garments we can't find? I keep looking for ladies' vests and cardigans and I can't find any in my size (size Large, big deal, right?) that I like. I also think that there is a serious lack of pretty, simple silver jewellery. I think I need to spend more time on Etsy.

Anyway, my Grandma bought me a plain purple sweatshirt at Wal*Mart, it's warm, soft, and needs no zipper.

Doggie is not girly! He is super boyish, actually. Like an enthusiastic but slightly dimwitted little boy. Havaneses are so totally not lapdogs -- I think they're partly meant for herding poultry (!!), which might explain why this one loves chicken and running in circles, and occasionally thinks he can beat up pitbull puppies.

APC is probably too pricey for a day-off / dogwalking sweatshirt, but that's nice-looking.

ok, i didn't say that his personality is girly. i'm sure he's a rugged little guy (the tiny ones are often quite tough). but they are kind of girly-looking, come on:

http://cdn-www.dailypuppy.com/media/dogs/anonymous/schmutzy_havanese_01.jpg_w450.jpg

Huh, that seems ungirly to me, but I grew up with Shih-Tzu/terriers, so maybe my standards are different. Plus they just seem less "girly" when you catch them humping the cat and they look up at you with dopey Will Ferrell looks on their faces.

nbs have u checked out uniqlo or h&m? thats whered i go prob

(Also this one has longer hair and constantly has the shaggy, slackery look of a stoned skater type, in that sheepdoggy way.)

Haven't checked Uniqlo, can't recall seeing anything along these lines at any H&M

now it just seems like you started this thread to talk about your dog

go to the giftshop of one of the find institutions of higher learning in your city -- sweatshirts aplenty

yeah why does your dog get high xpost

fine xp

yeah dude u dont have a columbia sweatshirt? for shame.

have some pride in your accomplishments

no-print

invisible ink

u are being a diva

dark red patent leather flat chunky ish mary janes in a size larger than would fit a 4 year old child.

i guess that should tell me something

I don't think wanting options beyond a puffy college sweatshirt is particularly diva-ish -- this used to be simple, I had several of these, things that were basically sweaters that happened to be sweatshirts. But I will keep you updated on my progress and the raging masculinity of my dog.

sunny: http://zeta.zappos.com/product/7447036/color/25055

seriously nabisco: Fruit of the Loom/Hanes sweatshirts at walmart/local cheapie place. I went through a blue sweatshirt phase in high school, I even bought a Fruit of the Loom one at a stall at the Reading festival! Buy a size smaller and they are not puffy anymore (though you may sacrifice sleve length, but this is always a problem for me anyway).

walmart/local cheapie place = yeah, like I said, I think I am having one of those problems you only have in downtown Manhattan

thank you Jaq but they must be red

basically these in adult womens size 10:

https://00f3585.netsolstores.com/ProductImages/kidexpress08/molly%20red%20burnished%204in.jpg

fuckin monkey toes

black flat fronted pants that aren't chinos or suit trousers

there is a target at atlantic/pacific. if you take the n/q it is a very short trip. i have bought hanes undershirts there as well as champion stuff, so don't be like gabbneb and take a trip to brooklyn, yo!

or, like lauren said, go to the astor place k-mart.

Those Danskos are pretty red in real life, sunny (the Clog Factory on 1st Ave has them in the window - v. v. shiny), but a darker shade than those. But also, not flat, since those stapled clogs are about a 2" heel.

My dad has some great original really 50s ones that I used to wear--all faded grey and nubby--come to think of it, I haven't noticed the non-hooded version lately--but what do you have against hoods? My prescription: get a hooded version for the present, and keep an eye out at thrift stores for the version you are looking for.

i really want a black zip up cardigan. like a hoody. but a zip up. whenever you find them, they always have that not-quite-pocket-not-quite-pouch thing, which is made useless by the intersecting zip. i used to have this slightly stretchy, thin, cotton-y, gap cardy, with a cool hood, but it was much desired and eventually ravaged through lend-outs. they probably cost like $20 when you can find them.

nabisco I was in american apparel a couple days ago and they def have plain pullover sweatshirts exactly like that. however they were on the rack with a bunch of hoodies and easy to overlook.

i wonder if dance stores wld have stylish sweatshirts
i feel like all dancers wear sweatshirts when they are warming up, srsly

btw, sweatshirts (in more fitted form), totally comin' back
1990
makes me feel like i shld start running the 200m again

ever since a friend pointed out that dude in "freaks and geeks" was wearing a sweater vest that wasn't a v-neck, but rather the rounded thing that follows the outline of a wife-beater, i've been looking in goodwills nigh and far for one of 'em. apparently they are beyond extinct. bummah.