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

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

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.

I'd know you meant vertical stripes. Football related for me though.

I'd have said horizontal stripes. Hooped implies physical hoops to me, like a hooped skirt, crinoline sort of thing. That would be an odd design for a t-shirt, though maybe nice and airy in this weather...

It's used commonly to describe rugby shirts and horse racing silks.

I know that it means horizontal stripes, but probably just a few wide ones.

DH is northern/Scottish and says this too. Have never heard it said by a Londoner though.

Celtic Football team are nicknames the hoops because they play in a green and white horizontal striped jersey.

Never heard of it.

I once went out with a Celtic fan and he'd talk about hoops.

He also took me to a Celtic game which I'd rather erase from my memory

I knew the term from watching rugby.

I'd only use hooped for sports wear though, and only if the stripes were wide, not narrow.

I'd say the t-shirt in the picture was striped.

I only know it in relation to Celtic football tops. I have never heard it used for normal clothing and I would be really confused. I'd call your top stripey.

Yes came on to say Celtic shirts is 'hooped' and fans don't ever describe it as striped.

Barcelona to change strip from stripes to hoops

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/barcelona/11267341/Barcelona-to-change-strip-from-stripes-to-hoops.html

Reading Footbal club wear blue and white hooped shirts and one of the chants is "hoops"

Im a seamstress and have never heard that expression for a top before. Its just stripey

Horizontal all the way round stripes.

Wide horizontal stripes

That's stripy. In my mind a hooped t shirt would have like a hula hoop in the bottom like clown trousers.

I would imagine it being something incredibly inconvenient for making loo trips in doe to its rigidity and width.

Yes, I'd know what it meant.

I don't use the expression now, though, and now I'm wondering when I stopped!

I grew up abroad, with parents from both North and South of England, and if anywhere in the UK is home it is the South Coast.

Of those who know what it is... does anyone else use it in everyday life...(as opposed to just knowing what it is) ie. 'Jane has got a lovely new t-shirt in a yellow and blue hoop pattern'.

Because if someone started talking about a striped t-shirt, look out for the bloke in the blue and white striped shirt, I'd automatically think of something like this. It wouldn't cross my mind to look for a horizontal pattern.

No, never heard of it. And that's striped, hoops are much wider.

I definitely used to use it, LikeDylan, and have no idea when I stopped.

Probably around the same time I got really lazy about a lot of language use, and stopped being so pedantic about grammar, so I guess mid 20s? No idea why.

Dd owned a hooped Disney Princess dress. It actual had a hoop in the bottom seam.

I"ve never heard of the term but in my defence U'm a Southerner and not a sport fan.

I used the term today - I bought my eldest her school uniform today for her new school in Sept. She has blue socks with white hoops at the top - I used the phrase hooped, so did the shop staff & it was written on the uniform list. My husband has loads of hooped tshirts.

Yes, I know, bur definitely football related.