The size dropdown is where a hoodie order usually goes wrong, and honestly it isn’t the shopper’s fault. Eight options sit in that list, XS right through to 4XL, and several of the listings carry an O/S somewhere in the product name, which may or may not mean you ought to move a size. There’s no measurement chart published anywhere on the Geedup Clothing hoodie pages either, so you end up reading the cut off a photograph and a few words of product title. A bit frustrating, that, though it’s workable once you know what the names are doing.
Eight sizes, which is more than you tend to get
The full run on the hoodies goes XS, S, M, L, XL and then up through 2XL, 3XL and 4XL, which is a wider span than plenty of smaller labels bother carrying, since the usual compromise tends to be S through XXL and a shrug at everybody standing outside it. Having a 3XL and a 4XL sitting there changes who can shop the fleece at all, and that matters rather more than it sounds when the whole point of the garment is sitting loose on the body instead of fitted to it.
What that O/S in a product name is telling you
O/S means oversized, and it’s a cut rather than a size. The O/S Emblem Emboss and O/S G hoodies sit at A$159, the Ol’ English Oversized at A$199, and there’s an OS G kids’ set over in the tracksuit listings too. In each of those the pattern itself has been drawn wider and longer than the regular one, so the dropped shoulder, the roomy body and the sleeve that swallows half your hand are all built in before you’ve chosen anything at all.
Which leads straight to the mistake people make. They read O/S, decide oversized means ordering up, and end up inside something enormous. I’d take your normal size in an O/S piece. If you want it genuinely huge — hem sitting well down the thigh, cuffs bunching at the wrist — then go up one, but do it knowing that’s a second step stacked on top of a pattern that was already generous to begin with.
Does the weight of the fleece change anything?
A fair bit, I’d say, though not in the direction people expect. The product pages describe a premium cotton-polyester blend fleece, and something at that weight will more or less hold the shape it was cut in rather than collapsing onto your shoulders the way a thin jersey hoodie does by about the third wear — so a regular-fit piece in this fabric stays a regular fit for as long as you own it, and an O/S piece keeps hold of its width instead of softening into something closer to normal after a handful of washes.
Judging a fit with no chart in front of you
So what do you actually work from? Mostly the photographs, and they carry more information than people tend to give them credit for. A few things are worth looking at before you commit:
- where the shoulder seam lands, on the shoulder bone for a regular cut and well down the upper arm for an O/S one
- how much of the hand the cuff covers once the arm is hanging straight
- how far the hem drops past the hip, and whether it stops above or below the pocket line on the model’s jeans
Then do the boring bit, which is measuring a hoodie you already own and like the fit of — flat on the bed, pit to pit, collar to hem — and keeping those two numbers in your phone. You can’t match them against a published chart here, but you can tell the support team what they are. The footer lists support@geedup.co and +61 485 906 241, Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, and asking whether the 2XL in a particular colourway sits closer to your numbers than the XL does is a perfectly fair question to put to people who have the garment in front of them.
Scrolling the Geedup Hoodie Australia listings side by side helps as well, because a regular Handstyle hoodie and an O/S piece will often photograph next to each other, and the difference in how the body hangs becomes fairly obvious once you’re looking for it specifically.
| Pro Tip: Take your two numbers — pit to pit and collar to hem on a hoodie you already wear happily — and send them to support before you order rather than after. They can see the piece in person; you can only see the photo of it. |
When sizing up helps, and when it just reads baggy
There are a couple of situations where going up genuinely earns itself. Broad shoulders with a narrower waist is one, because the shoulder has to fit first and the extra width through the middle is simply the price of that. Wanting a jumper or a heavier shirt underneath through a Melbourne winter is another, although I’d only move up when the piece is a regular cut, since sizing a Geedup fleece that’s already O/S leaves you with room you didn’t need. And if the hoodie is going on with its matching bottoms as a tracksuit set, keep the top at whatever size you’d wear on its own, because the set photographs better when the proportions aren’t fighting each other.
Where it falls apart is sizing up for no reason beyond wanting the look. Oversized done properly comes out of the pattern. Oversized done by ordering two sizes above your own just hands you a hoodie with the shoulder seam somewhere near your elbow and a hood that refuses to sit up, which is a different garment altogether and not a flattering one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an O/S hoodie run a full size bigger?
Not quite a full size, but it is cut wider and longer through the body and the shoulder. Ordering your usual size in an O/S piece gets you the oversized look as drawn; ordering up on top of that gets you something noticeably larger again.
What sizes do the Geedup hoodies come in?
The listings run from XS up to 4XL, which comes to eight sizes, although availability does tend to move around by colourway — so it’s worth opening the dropdown on the exact piece you want rather than assuming the whole range carries across every listing on the page.
Can I change sizes after it arrives?
You can request a return within 14 days of receiving the order, provided the hoodie hasn’t been worn, washed or altered. Write in first with your order number, then wait for them to tell you what they want done next.
None of this has to take long. Work out whether the piece you’re looking at is a regular cut or an O/S one, take your usual size in either unless you specifically want the extra room, keep those two measurements somewhere handy in case you’d rather ask than guess, and the hoodie that turns up will fit more or less the way the photograph suggested it would.
