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To ask if you know what a hooped T-shirt is?

86 replies

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 20/07/2016 20:11

I was talking about a t-shirt someone was wearing and described it as being a hooped design.

  • Cue blank looks all round.

Surely this is an everyday expression and is completely unambiguous what a hooped t-shirt is.

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monkeysox · 20/07/2016 20:12

I have no idea!

redhat · 20/07/2016 20:13

? horizontal stripes?

I know this only because DSs rugby shirt is described as hooped. Otherwise Id think the more normal description was horizontal stripes.

Nospringflower · 20/07/2016 20:13

I know! It's got stripes all the way round like hoops! 10/10 please?!

M00nUnit · 20/07/2016 20:14

Never heard that expression before in my life and I'm 41.

nemno · 20/07/2016 20:15

I know. But only because of football shirts.

SueTrinder · 20/07/2016 20:16

It's knitted like a sock and has no side seams.

MackerelOfFact · 20/07/2016 20:16

I would assume that it had a hoop in in, like a wedding dress or a clown costume!

molyholy · 20/07/2016 20:17

No idea. Never heard that expression in my life.

CointreauVersial · 20/07/2016 20:18

Like redhat, I only know what it means because of DS's football shirt (blue and white hoops, fyi Grin).

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 20/07/2016 20:18

red hat

Yep you've got it. Like this.

To ask if you know what a hooped T-shirt is?
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OfficiallyUnofficial · 20/07/2016 20:19

I've never heard of it.

Maybe just a football kit thing then?

BeJayKayven · 20/07/2016 20:19

Ah, stripey 🙂

Balletgirlmum · 20/07/2016 20:20

I'd say the picture was stripy. Hoops in my mind are like rugby shirts where there are two or three at most stripes going round (usually thicker)

DavidPuddy · 20/07/2016 20:20

I know the expression, though I wouldn't use it. I think I heard it from my Father in law.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 20/07/2016 20:20

Yes I'd have though of a 2 colour horizontal striped t shirt. Although I thought there might be summat trendy I'd missed.

Chwaraeteg · 20/07/2016 20:20

I would have assumed it was like a hooped skirt, sorry. I've never heard that expression before.

DinosaursRoar · 20/07/2016 20:21

I'd only heard t-shirts like that called as striped /horizontal striped

I would assume hooped meant something to do with the construction

JinkxMonsoon · 20/07/2016 20:22

Nope, never heard of a hooped t shirt in my life. It's just stripey.

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 20/07/2016 20:23

Ballet in my mind stripes run vertically and hoops run horizontally.

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wigglesrock · 20/07/2016 20:23

I'd know what it was - a horizontal striped top - hoops. Like a hula hoop, pretty normal description. My kids would say they had hooped tshirts, Celtic football have a few nicknames - one of them being "the Hoops" because of their kit.

Mari50 · 20/07/2016 20:23

It's striped, sadly I know this because I live in the west of Scotland

wigglesrock · 20/07/2016 20:24

LikeDylanintheMovies yup - stripes go up and down, hoops go across.

NicknameUsed · 20/07/2016 20:24

I would describe it as a striped T-shirt. As striped clothes usually have horizontal stripes people will assume that the stripes are in horizontal bands rather than vertical stripes.

The description hooped is not common parlance anywhere I have lived.

JoandMax · 20/07/2016 20:26

Never ever heard that before - hooped to me would mean something completely round in shape so I'd imagine some kind of weird clown/wedding dress affair.....

CurlsLDN · 20/07/2016 20:28

Nope I've never heard that before