20、 Obama
B2 High-Intermediate US 6573 Folder Collection
After playing the video, you can click or select the word to look it up in the dictionary.
Loading...
Report Subtitle Errors
The hoodie is an amazing object.
It's one of those timeless objects that we hardly think of, because they work so well that they're part of our lives.
We call them "humble masterpieces."
Small thing.
Big idea.
(Paola Antonelli on the Hoodie)
The hoodie has been -- even if it was not called so -- it's been an icon throughout history for good and for bad reasons.
The earliest ones that we can trace are from ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
The Middle Ages, you see a lot of monks that were wearing garments that were cape-like, with hoods attached, so therefore, "hoodies."
Ladies in the 17th century would wear hoodies to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers.
And then, of course, there's the legend, there's fantasy.
There's the image of the hoodie connected to the grim reaper.
There's the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner.
So there's the dark side of the hoodie.
The modern incarnation of the hoodie -- a garment that's made usually of cotton jersey, that has a hood attached with a drawstring.
Sometimes it has a marsupial pocket -- was introduced in the 1930s by Knickerbocker Knitting Company.
And now it's called Champion.
It was meant to keep athletes warm.
Of course, though, it was such a functional, comfortable garment that it was very rapidly adopted by workmen everywhere.
And then, around the 1980s, it also gets adopted by hip-hop and B-boys, skateboarders, and it takes on this kind of youth street culture.
It was, at the same time, super-comfortable, perfect for the streets and also had that added value of anonymity when you needed it.
And then we have Mark Zuckerberg, that defies convention of respectable attire for businesspeople.
But interestingly, it's also a way to show how power has changed.
If you're wearing a two-piece suit, you might be the bodyguard.
The real powerful person is wearing a hoodie with a T-shirt and jeans.
It's easy to think of the physical aspects of the hoodie.
You can immediately think of wearing the hood up, and you feel this warmth and this protection, but at the same time, you can also feel the psychological aspects of it.
I mean, think of donning a hoodie, all of a sudden, you feel more protected, you feel that you are into your own shell.
We know very well what the hoodie has come to signify in the past few years in the United States.
When Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American kid, was shot by a neighborhood vigilante.
And Million Hoodie Marches happened all over the United States, in which people wore hoodies with the hood up and marched in the streets against this kind of prejudice.
It doesn't happen that often for a garment to have much symbolism and history and that encompasses so many different universes as the hoodie.
So, like all garments, especially all truly utilitarian garments, it is very basic in its design.
But at the same time, it has a whole universe of possibilities attached.
    You must  Log in  to get the function.
Tip: Click on the article or the word in the subtitle to get translation quickly!

Loading…

Loading…

B2 High-Intermediate US

【TED】Paola Antonelli: The 3,000-year history of the hoodie (The 3,000-year history of the hoodie | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series)

6573 Folder Collection
林宜悉 published on June 24, 2019

Learning Words

loading

Comments

Loading…
More Recommended Videos

  1. 1. Search word

    Select word on the caption to look it up in the dictionary!

  2. 2. Repeat single sentence

    Repeat the same sentence to enhance listening ability

  3. 3. Shortcut

    Shortcut!

  4. 4. Close caption

    Close the English caption

  5. 5. Embed

    Embed the video to your blog

  6. 6. Unfold

    Hide right panel

  1. Listening Quiz

    Listening Quiz!

  1. Click to open your notebook

  1. UrbanDictionary 俚語字典整合查詢。一般字典查詢不到你滿意的解譯，不妨使用「俚語字典」，或許會讓你有滿意的答案喔