Sweatshirts & Knitwear

Sweatshirts & Knitwear holds the pull-on warm layers at Mens Collection in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York: loopback cotton sweatshirts, zip sweatshirts, a hoodie, and the shorts cut from the same cloth.

Loopback is the traditional sweatshirt construction, and it is doing something specific. The internal loop stitch traps warm air against the body and moves moisture away from it, which is why the fabric feels light in the hand and still works on a cold morning. None of these carry a print or a graphic; the interest is in the cloth and the cut, which is the harder way to make a sweatshirt worth keeping.

The choice inside the collection is mostly about closure. A pullover is the simplest thing to own. A full-length zip opens all the way down, so it works as a light layer over a T-shirt or closed as a top on its own. The hooded version has a double hood, so there is no exposed lining at the neck.

Colours stay quiet — black, dark cedar, navy and an undyed natural shade — which keeps any of them from reading as gym kit. Sizes run XS to XXXL. Wear these for travel, for relaxed days, and for the hours at either end of one; Sweatshirts & Knitwear is the part of the store that gets worn without being thought about.