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Tiger Hoodie
A tiger hoodie gives the animal more room than almost any other piece of clothing: a full front, a back, two sleeves and a hood that can all carry the design. The hoodies in this collection use that space in different ways. Some print a tiger's fur from collar to cuff, some place a single portrait across the chest, a few keep the tiger to a small emblem beside the zip, and others build a whole scene around the animal with snow, flowers or flames. They come as pullovers and as zip-ups, on black, white, beige, blue, orange and fully printed grounds.
All-over prints: the tiger hoodie as a second skin
The boldest designs cover every surface. The Orange Tiger Stripe Hoodie is printed to look like the animal's own coat, with amber and honey-colored fur crossed by black stripes that run over the hood, down the front and around both sleeves. Even the front pocket disappears into the pattern. Its options name two styles, Bengal Tiger and Siberian Tiger, after two of the best-known tiger subspecies.
The Tiger Stripe Hoodie reaches the same idea from another direction. Its print is tiger stripe camouflage, the pattern of long, torn-looking brushstrokes that soldiers wore in the jungles of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, here in black, olive, muted rose and off-white. The stripes are crisp and graphic rather than furry, and the pullover finishes in a banded hem and cuffs. Other all-over designs set the tiger inside a landscape: one shows a tiger stepping down a snowy rock past frosted pine trees, its striped tail curling up toward the hood, and another wraps a white tiger's face in swirls of purple, turquoise and pink.
A single portrait on black, white or beige
On a solid color, the artwork gets a frame around it. The Golden Chinese Tiger Hoodie is black, with a gold and amber tiger walking across the front and turning its head back over its shoulder. Ornamental flowers in gold, rust and cream bloom near the shoulder and gather around its paws by the hem, and a second style, Chinese Tiger Art, appears in its options.
The Hyper-Realistic Tiger Head Hoodie keeps to a photographic style. It is a black zip-up with a tiger's face printed across the chest, one side lit and the other sinking into shadow, so the eyes and pale whiskers seem to come forward out of the dark fabric. A white pullover in the range turns that idea inside out, with a tiger head painted in black and gray ink washes whose drips run down over the pocket. Another black zip-up surrounds a snarling tiger head with flames and bold lettering.
Pullover or zip-up
Both cuts are part of the collection, and each suits a different kind of design. A pullover leaves the front in one piece, which is why most of the all-over prints and the largest scenes appear on that shape. A zip-up opens down the middle, and its artwork is placed with that line in mind, either split evenly across the two sides or kept to the chest. The Hoodie Tiger & Snake Beige shows the second approach: a pale beige zip-up with two front pockets and ribbed cuffs, carrying a small, colorful print on the left of the chest, where a tiger sits beneath a coiled snake framed by red clouds. It is one of the quieter pieces here, a tiger detail that reveals itself up close.
Sizes and fit for each tiger hoodie
Sizes run from XXS to 6XL across the collection, but each design has its own range, listed in its options. Most come in XS to 5XL. The Tiger Stripe Hoodie extends up to 6XL, the Orange Tiger Stripe Hoodie starts at XXS, and the Golden Chinese Tiger Hoodie, like a few of the fully printed designs, comes in a shorter run that ends at XL.
Our apparel size chart has a table for hoodies with chest, shoulder and length measurements from S to 6XL, in centimeters and inches. A hoodie already in the closet, laid flat and measured across the chest, gives an easy point of comparison.
Hoodie, sweatshirt or jacket
A hoodie sits between two other pieces in our range. Without the hood, the same idea becomes a tiger sweatshirt: a round-necked pullover with ribbed edges, its whole front given over to a tiger print, from photographic portraits to a snarling tiger in a samurai helmet. One layer further out is the tiger jacket, where the animal is often embroidered rather than printed, in gold thread on a black bomber or across the back of a denim jacket. Zip-up hoodies blur that boundary, and our article asking is a hoodie a jacket compares the two by cut, thickness and the kind of weather each one suits.
The video below gives a closer look at hoodies from the collection.
Where the tiger in these designs comes from
Many of the prints draw on traditions that have treated the tiger as a symbol for centuries. In China the tiger holds third place among the zodiac animals, and it has long been regarded as a protector against evil, a belief behind the tiger faces once stitched onto children's hats and shoes. The Golden Chinese Tiger Hoodie nods to that heritage in its name. Other references are more recent: tiger stripe camouflage comes from military history, while the ink-wash and photographic portraits owe more to wildlife art than to legend. Across all of them the tiger carries the qualities it has been linked with for so long, strength, courage and a calm kind of confidence.
The rest of the tiger wardrobe
Hoodies are one part of a larger range. Our tiger clothes collection gathers garments from across the theme, from t-shirts and tank tops to caps, belts, pajamas and swimwear, so a favorite subject, a white tiger or a tiger stripe pattern, turns up on more than one kind of piece.
Quick answers on the hoodies
Which designs have a zip?
Most of the designs on a solid color. The Hyper-Realistic Tiger Head Hoodie and the Hoodie Tiger & Snake Beige are both zip-ups, while the Golden Chinese Tiger Hoodie and the Orange Tiger Stripe Hoodie are pullovers. The product photos show the front of each design.
Can the same hoodie be ordered in a different print?
On a few designs. The Orange Tiger Stripe Hoodie offers Bengal Tiger and Siberian Tiger styles, and the Golden Chinese Tiger Hoodie offers Golden Chinese Tiger and Chinese Tiger Art. Most other hoodies come in one print and a choice of sizes.