Spider Hodie

The spider hoodie range we stock is the bottom half of the fit: four pairs of Sp5der sweatpants and four two-piece tracksuits, from $128.99 to $228.99. It is not a full hoodie archive, and it is not the place to chase every rhinestone colourway the label has reissued since the first web print. What we carry is the part of a sp5der sweatsuit most wardrobes are short of.

Sp5der is the streetwear brand founded by Young Thug, and shoppers type the name a dozen ways — Sp1der, Sp3der, Sp4der, Spida, Spiderr, Spiderhoddie — all pointing at one catalogue. Our team keeps the spider hodie spelling because that is how customers find us. The garments themselves are the brand's own lines: web graphics, star logos, the Souvenir SP5 print, the Beluga tones.

How the spider hoodie silhouettes differ across our sp5der clothing range

Three shapes sit in the range: one loud graffiti-print jogger, three quieter logo sweatpants, and the matching two-piece tracksuit. The louder the print, the more the piece wants to be the only thing happening in an outfit. Each of the spider hodie shapes behaves differently once it is on a body rather than flat.

The Classic Flame LOGO Graffiti Sp5der Sweatpant at $130.99 carries a screen-printed graphic that runs across the leg panel and covers far more ground than the others. Of the spider hodie bottoms our team has handled, it is the busiest. It suits someone who wears a plain tee or a black sp5der hoodie up top; put it under a web-print hoodie and the two graphics argue.

Sp5der TC Sweatpants Blue at $128.99 and the Star Logo Sweatpants in Charcoal Green at $129.99 are the restrained pair — small mark, clean ground, elastic waistband, tapered jogger leg. The Souvenir SP5 Sweatpants Black at $128.99 sits between them, with a souvenir-style print on a colour that hides it until you are close. These are the spider hodie bottoms we suggest first to anyone who already owns a loud top.

The four tracksuits all land at $228.99 and arrive as a set: a pullover hoodie with drawstring hood, kangaroo pocket and ribbed cuffs, over matching jogger pants. Web Tracksuit Sky Blue and Web Tracksuit Slime Green carry the web graphic across both halves; Beluga Tracksuit Heather Grey and the Slate Grey version are the sober ones. A sp5der tracksuit removes the colour-matching problem that buying halves separately creates, which is why the spider hodie sets move faster in winter.

Who buys sp5der sweatpants, and what do they wear them with?

Two groups, roughly. People completing a top they already own, and people buying a whole two-piece in one order because matching a used grey by photograph rarely works. The spider hodie customer in the first group almost always tells us what the top is before asking about the bottoms.

Those finishing an outfit usually name an OG Web hoodie, a black sp5der hoodie or a pink sp5der hoodie, and they want bottoms that stay quiet underneath. That is where the TC Blue and the Star Logo Charcoal Green earn their place. Someone wearing a plain sp5der shirt has the opposite problem and tends to take the Classic Flame graffiti pair instead.

Tracksuit buyers split between people who wear the set as a set and people who break it up immediately. Worn whole, the Beluga Heather Grey reads as a loungewear set; worn split, the Slime Green jogger pants pair with a plain crew and nothing else. Our results from repeat orders suggest the spider hodie sets get separated more often than they get worn matched.

We are asked regularly for sp5der shorts, for the Worldwide numeral tees that sp5der worldwide and spider worldwide searches point at, and for the 555555 graphics. Our current stock is long-legged bottoms and the four sets, so we would rather say that plainly than sell around it. Everything in the spider hodie catalogue here is a sweatpant or a tracksuit.

Does the sizing at spiderhodie.com run true?

The sweatpants run close to standard; the tracksuit hoodies run large on purpose. The oversized silhouette on the pullover half is a design decision by the brand, not a sizing error, so a true-to-size order still gives a roomy chest and a dropped shoulder. Most spider hodie fit questions we get are really about that top half.

On the bottoms, the elastic waistband with drawstring gives real range, which means the waist is the forgiving part and the leg is not. The inseam is cut long across all four pairs, so the ribbed cuff stacks and pools on shorter legs. That stacking is normal on every spider hodie jogger we have handled, but it is worth knowing before you order.

The tracksuits are sold as a set in a single size, and that is the honest caveat: one size has to serve both halves. Someone who sits between sizes on top and firmly on one size below has to choose which half to favour.

Our team's standing advice is to size for the bottoms and accept the top running roomy, because a loose pullover reads as intended on a sp5der tracksuit while tight joggers do not. People between sizes on the sweatpants should take the smaller, since cotton fleece relaxes with wear. Sizing up a spider hodie bottom to be safe usually ends with the waist drawstring doing all the work.

Our team found spider hoodies hold their shape best when hung rather than folded, since the fabric bounces back after wearing.

Ingrid Lorne

Fabric weight at spiderhodie.com: warmth, drape and wearing in

These are heavyweight cotton fleece garments, and weight changes how they behave more than colour does. Heavier fleece hangs straighter, holds a crease less, and takes longer to soften. A spider hodie piece in heavy fleece feels stiff for the first few wears and then settles.

In practice the weight means real warmth. A sp5der tracksuit worn as a set is too much indoors in a heated room and right for a cold walk, which is why the sets sell through autumn and the single sweatpants sell year-round. The screen-printed graphic adds a touch of stiffness over the panel it sits on, so the Classic Flame pair breaks in more slowly across the thigh than the TC Blue does.

Drape is where the difference shows. The brushed inside face gives the leg some body, so the jogger holds its taper instead of collapsing, and the hood on the pullover half stands up rather than lying flat. On a spider hodie hoodie half, that standing hood is what makes the oversized cut read deliberate.

Wear-in is mostly about washing. Cold wash, inside out, and air dry protects the print and keeps the cuffs from tightening, which is the one place a hot dryer does visible damage. A spider hodie sweatpant treated that way keeps its leg opening; one that is tumbled hot will grip the ankle more than it did on day one.

Expert Tip from Ingrid Lorne

Measure a pair of sweatpants you already wear, laid flat and unstretched across the waist, then compare that number to the size chart rather than guessing from your jeans. I run fit sessions twice a month, and the single most common error I write down is people ordering a spider hodie bottom by denim size, which is cut on a different principle entirely. The second thing I tell people is to check the cuff, not the waist, when deciding between two sizes on the tracksuits — the ribbed cuff is where the length actually shows. If you are buying a set like the Beluga Tracksuit Heather Grey or the Slate Grey, decide in advance which half matters more to you, because one size governs both. Among sp5der hoodies and their matching bottoms, the top will almost always forgive a size; the leg will not.