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.

nope, never heard of it either. Well, possibly I have seen a sports kit that had it in the context of rugby tops, now that people mention it, but didn't register and I wouldn't really have remembered it. Definitely not ever used it or heard it used by anyone. I'd called it a striped top. Most t-shirts have horizontal stripes (apart from football).

Might have guessed, but then I could also have guessed that it had a pattern of large circles all over it, perhaps overlapping or something, which would be just as much pictures of hoops to me!

Raglan, on the other hand, I would know, as it's the only word to describe that kind of sleeve. But my mum used to sew a bit when i was younger, so she'd more likely to use the technical words if we were shopping for things.

Surely a stripe has a beginning and an end to be a stripe? Hooped is a far more accurate description as the pattern forms a loop without a break.

Well, but you only really see one side of the pattern at any given time. You don't see the entire 'loop' of each stripe, IYSWIM.

They just look like stripes!

(Also, with fine stripes, they usually don't join up perfectly at each seam - therefore there are no 'hoops', by any definition )

Mari50 - It's striped, sadly I know this because I live in the west of Scotland - if you live in west of Scotland like I do then you would know it is hooped as in Celtic - the hoops (amongst other nicknames)

I have never heard this term before.

I would say horizontal stripes.

I do live in Scotland but was well aware and used the term way before I moved here. First time I heard the term hoop in Scotland, was to refer to an arsehole. A particularly foul mouthed woman I worked with informed us all that the jobby she'd just done was so big it 'tore ma hoop'

I'd know exactly what you meant - footballs supporter here. I'd think of QPR....

Never heard of it.
If someone said a top had a hooped pattern I'd think of it decorated with pics of hula hoop crisps!
Hoops in my mind are a 3d solid object not a stripe.

Nope, never heard that term before either-I'd also say striped.

My family is scottish and my dad loved football but I've still never heard of hooped in that context.

It's a stripy t shirt.