Sweat Shirts

It wasn't until about 1925 that the sweat shirt became a regular word in American vocabulary. These types of shirts were for athletes to wear during their warm up sessions. Two brothers named Abe and Bill began Feinbloom Knickerbocker Company, which then took on the name of Champion Products in the early 1900s. It wasn't until the mid 1930s that they began manufacturing new types of sweat shirts with letters on them. Although this was to target athletes in general this type of clothing, it was soon directed to the football players as their main market. This new market would sell new sweatshirts fitted with a zipper in the front with a hood attached to the sweat shirt itself at the back of the neck. With the coming of the 1960s, sweat shirts became rather fashionable and were soon being manufactured with college and university names on them. A nice addition was the draw string to close up the hood of the sweat shirts. This was to keep the wind and cold away from a person's ears.

Today, the sweat shirt is still ever popular and just as much of a trend as it was back in the early and mid 1900s. Sweat shirts today are made with similar traits as the old ones did, but today's sweat shirts have been changed somewhat through the years by changing the type of material used to make them, the addition of pockets, more advanced lettering and high detailed graphics. These slight changes have made the sweat shirt product line grow enormously as the all famous hooded sweat shirt is in almost every clothing retailer around the world.

The great thing about sweat shirts is that they are warm and comfortable to wear. They make a good gift because of this. Everyone loves to have a cozy shirt they can slip on and be warm within minutes if they are chilly. They are relatively inexpensive and at the same time as being warm they are fashionable. You think an adult wearing one of these is the typical, but even a baby can wear these shirts. The nice part is that they can come with a hood to keep their head warm.