Personalized Zip-Up Hoodies

Custom zip-up hoodies take a simple sweatshirt and make it your own with your choice of slogans, messages, and graphics. These hoodies deserve a spot in your wardrobe for a few reasons:

• They’re easy to remove and put on. When the weather gets a little cooler, just zip your hoodie over your clothes. No need to get tangled up in a pullover hoodie or mess up your perfect hair. These are great for anybody, too, because you don’t need 100% mobility to slip a zippered hoodie on and off easily.

• They can be a more flattering fit. Custom zippered hoodies don’t have the big kangaroo pouch most sweatshirts have, which gets rid of that bagginess in the front. With the zipper, you can enjoy a more streamlined look while staying just as cozy.

• They offer more styling choices. Wrap them around your waist, wear them partly zippered with a bright tee underneath, or zip them all the way up. You can even layer them with other sweats. There are just more choices with custom-zippered shirts, and we all deserve more choices in life.

• They give you lots of customization options. With TeamShirts, you can put designs on the front, back, sleeves, or even the hoodie of your sweatshirt, so you can really make it your own.

• You get more temperature control. Do you freeze and then overheat like a vintage 1978 Ford Pinto? With a custom zip-up hoodie, you can easily adjust for the weather by zipping all the way up to get warm or leaving your zipper open when you’re starting to get too steamed up.

• They’re great quality. The men’s zip-up hoodie from TeamShirts, for example, has double-stitched pockets, shoulders, hood, and waist, so your personalized creation lasts for years.

In fact, custom zip-up hoodies have so many advantages that you might want to have several!

Whether you’re designing zippered hoodies for your employees, your bachelorette party, or your knife-throwing group, the design principles stay the same. Here are a few ideas to get your personalized shirts looking great:

• Keep it simple with a logo on the front. One of the simplest ways to design a custom zip-up hoodie is to put a logo, a message, or a graphic on the front, either to the left or right of the zipper. Classic and always tasteful, this is especially popular with company hoodies.

• Have messages on the front and back. Think of the front and back of your hoodie as the A tracks and B sides of an album. They can play off each other. You can have a logo on the front, for example, and your motto on the back. Or, you can start a thought on the front of your shirt (“I’d rather be…) and finish it on the back of the hoodie (“…cooking”).

• Keep it visual. Sometimes, a picture is all you need. Instead of trying to fit in a message or slogan, you can always just add a graphic that captures the mood or message you want to share.

• Play with color. TeamShirts has zip-up hoodies in every color. Choose a color that’s part of your brand or team colors or a neutral color like black or white. Then, use a contrasting color for your graphics and text to really help it pop.

• Remember sizing. When buying for a team, make sure that everyone feels included by offering women’s, kid’s, and men’s sizes and styles. TeamShirts can help with a huge range of sizes and styles of hoodies.

• Add lots of white space. Crowded elevators, planes, and concerts suck. Use the same rule for your hoodie. Choose simple designs that leave lots of empty space around your message or graphics. Trust us: less busy is better.

• Wear your message on your sleeve. TeamShirts lets you print on the sleeves of hoodies, and these can be perfect spots for slogans and words. Since you’ve got a right and left sleeve, you can start a phrase on one arm and finish it on the other.

• Don’t overlook the hood. Graphics and slogans on the hood of your hoodie are most visible when someone has their hood up, but they also tend to stand out more because so few sweatshirts have designs on this part of the shirt. The hood is a terrific spot for a cool graphic.

• Try word clouds. A word cloud combines related words in a shape. For example, your company could include all the words that describe your team in the shape of a tree. Word clouds are conversation starters and help you get a big message across without having to come up with something witty.

• Put everyone’s name on the back of the shirt. TeamShirts has a Names and Numbers feature that lets you create team shirts for everyone, with their name on the back. You can even create numbers for everyone on your team, which is very handy for sports teams and bowling leagues.