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

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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 would have assumed horizontal stripes but never heard the term used apart from for football jerseys.

'Jane has got a lovely new t-shirt in a yellow and blue hoop pattern'.

See, that would confuse me further as I wouldn't call stripes a 'pattern' (for some reason that I don't fully understand on account of having only just realised it when I read your post!).

I have heard of it but wouldn't say it. I would say striped. In my mind they can be vertical or horizontal.

If you say striped, then nobody is in any doubt about what you mean. Do a hand gesture to indicate the direction of the stripe if you think it will help people understand what you're talking about. Everybody knows what striped is.

Hooped, when talking about clothing, would normally be used to describe a skirt with stiff hoops inserted.

I'd definitely know you meant horizontal stripes. (And I'm from the south, and have no sporting connections)

They ARE hoops though, (as in circular), because they go all the way around the body - so it's a more accurate description than horizontal stripes.

Stripes on the other hand have two ends. So in clothing if assume they were vertical.

I can't imagine ever using the term hoops for anything other than clothing, as they need to be 3D. So I might say horizontal stripes if they appeared on a piece of wallpaper or something.

I wouldn't associate any particular thickness to the lines though (in either direction), unlike some of the other posters who assume hoops to be thick.

I've only ever heard hooped in the context of Celtic FC shirts, since I moved north of the border. I've been involved in the garment trade in different countries, roles and business models for nearly 20 years.

I knew what you meant but it's not an expression I would use.

Stripes can be vertical or horizontal.

Seems like we Scots get it, thanks to the Celtic football team!

Outwith sport, if you said stripes I'd picture vertical stripes. If you said hoops, I'd have to think for a moment, but I'd get it.

Never heard that before and I wouldn't have known what you meant, the only 'hooped' item of clothing I've heard of is a skirt or petticoat with an actual hoop in it. I have only ever said/heard stripey or striped for t-shirts etc. I lived in Edinburgh for over 10 years too and never heard anyone say 'hooped' for a striped top there.

Never heard of it in my life!

I worked it out but no I wouldnt automatically know what a hooped t shirt is.

To me, stripes on a dress shirt are vertical, stripes on a t shirt are horizontal. I cant honestly say that I have seen a vertical striped t shirt before that picture and it looks all kind of wrong!

Seems pretty obvious to me what a hooped shirt is. It's not an expression I'd heard, but what else could it be but horizontal stripes.

God - the burden of an enormous intellect . . . ;- )

That looks like what I would call a striped shirt. You rarely see vertical stripes on shirts, so I would always assume a striped shirt had horizontal stripes.

If I heard 'hoop/hoops' I would think basketball.

X post Bogey - I have never seen anything like that either. It looks like a referee's shirt.

QPR play in hooped shirts, blue and white, and the team is, or was, also known as 'SuperHoops'. So I would have guessed your question referred to horizontal stripes, but for me the term is generally used in a sports kit context.

Yes I think the issue is that people know what it means but it isn't an every day phase.

You say stripes are virtical and hoops are horizontal. Well given that stripes are just lines and lines can go both virtically and horizontally and even diagonally surely stripes can too.

No no no. I'm not buying this whole stripes are vertical and hoops are horizontal thing. Surely that ends up meaning something can be both striped and hooped depending which way it is orientated, which is madness!

Surely a tiger is always striped - not striped when standing but hooped when sitting or climbing.

In my mind, a hoop is a rigid circle - basketball hoop, hula hoop, hoop earrings, embroidery hoop, wedding dress hoop, etc.

Never heard of it. I imagined a tee shirt with a wide hem held out with a hoop, like clown trousers...

I'd know what you meant. But I have had jobs involving clothes production so that might be why I'd know. People look at me funny if I describe a t shirt as raglan, apparently that is a 'specialist term' .

So I googled stripes if stripes are only virtical what are the first two OP?

I'd know what you meant because my step dad always insists on calling stripey tops hooped.

At school the bits wore football/rugby shirts that were plain on one side, and had a wide coloured stripe - a hoop - on the other. Half of them Eire their shirts inside out to identify different team ie: Plains and Hoops. I've also come across wide horizontal stripes call hoops in connection with hockey strips (who also have Quarters, Halves and Harelequins). I thought this type of PE kit was fairly common?

"Eire" = "wore"

Yes, completely normal everyday usage, surely? Stripes go down, hoops go round!

Nope, sorry

more years in the fashion industry than I care to mention & I have never heard of it called that.

Its a tee with horizontal stripes