Hoodies are one of the most versatile styles of clothing ever invented. They're jumpers with integrated removable hats -- what could be more useful? Forget fig leaves; if God wasn't so knackered after creating the Earth, He'd have made a whole range of celestial hoodies -- with angel wings and everything.
Unfortunately their reputation has plummeted recently. Members of the criminal fraternity are sullying the garment's good name by using their otherwise innocent hoods as a sinister cloak. Fuelled by tabloid headlines, hoodies are now banned from some universities and shopping centres -- supposedly because criminals wearing them will steal your iPods, PDAs, mobile phones etc., and then use their hoodie cloaking device to make their escape undetected by security cameras.
So it's delightful to see the irritatingly named SCOTTEVEST (SeV) design a range of clothing that includes the Ultimate Hoodie, designed to help stash your high-tech gizmos out of sight. We can see the headlines now: criminals can nick your iPod, safe in the knowledge that nobody will ever find their stash in the Ultimate Hoodie's many hidden compartments.
We tried the Ultimate Hoodie yesterday, and it's actually (forgive us) a bit pants. Its main claim to fame is that you can thread a headphone cable through the lining and into the pockets where you keep your MP3 player. But other than that it's just a normal hoodie -- a normal hoodie with a massive logo on the back that says "Get wired" or in other words "I'm a geek, please mug me".
It looks like the company does have some more interesting stuff online, including jackets with up to 52 hidden pockets. So, if you fancy yourself a bit of a McGuyver and you're too lazy to thread your headphones through the lining of tops you already own -- check out their threads here. -RR
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