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[42itous]

What is the difference among: sweatshirt, sweater, and jacket?

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[candle_light]

For me, mostly the material it's made out of, and then the shape/construction.

[jedusor]

Jacket opens in the front with buttons or a zipper, sweater pulls over the head and is made of soft fabric or yarn, sweatshirt pulls over the head and is made of sweatpants-type material (I don't have a great vocabulary for textiles XD). Hoodies are usually sweatshirts but I would also refer to a hoodie as a jacket if it zips up the front.

[42itous]

I would call the fabric heavy jersey or fleece. Usually when people say fleece they refer to polyester fabric, but I like sweatshirt fabric that's cotton and is a smooth knit on the outside and a fleecy warm texture on the inside.

[jedusor]

Yeah, I briefly tried to google what sweatpants material is called and saw it described as "fleece" and gave up because that means something different to me, like "a fleece" is a particular type of jacket or zippered vest made of a specific soft material.