Answer — Exercise 11
1.4 - Reading·Focus 3 (2nd edition) - Student's Book
Question
Listen to a podcast called History of Streetwear: the Hoodie and check your ideas to question 3 in Exercise 10. Do you think the hoodie is now an ‘icon of fashion’?
Answer
- American footballers: athletes wore it when they were sitting on the side line of an American Football field
- Break-dancers: wore them on the street to keep their bodies warm before they performed
- Graffiti artists and skate-boarders: used the hoods to hide their identity from the police
- A high-profile social media boss: too busy with changing the world to worry about his / her looks