Pullover hoodie

Nothing interrupts the front of a pullover hoodie — no zipper track, no exposed teeth, just a single unbroken panel from the ribbed waistband up to the hood, broken only by a kangaroo pocket sewn across the belly. Standard blanks like the Gildan 18500 or Independent Trading Co. SS4500 build that panel from 8 to 9 ounces of cotton/poly fleece, finished with ribbed cuffs and a drawcord hood.

That unbroken front is exactly why a pullover hoodie is the go-to blank for anyone printing a large center-chest or full-front design — a band logo, a retro graphic, a full-color print that would get sliced in half by a zipper on a full-zip style. We size full-front art at roughly 12 by 14 inches on one in adult large, and that's real estate you simply don't get on a zip-front garment.

Pros default to a pullover hoodie whenever the design brief calls for one big graphic and a single color story, and save zip-front styles for logo-only corporate orders. The kangaroo pocket is worth checking too — some brands set it low enough to interfere with a full-front print's bottom edge, so measure before finalizing art placement.

The mistake is treating hoodie as one interchangeable blank regardless of front style. A pullover hoodie and a full-zip hoodie print completely differently — swapping styles after art is approved can mean re-separating or resizing a file that was built for an uninterrupted panel.