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Aug 27, 2023

If You're Justin Bieber, a $30 Hoodie Is the Perfect Date Night Fit

By Gerald Ortiz All products featured on GQ are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Justin Bieber

By Gerald Ortiz

All products featured on GQ are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Justin Bieber likes to keep it cozy. More often than not, the Biebz sticks to a rotating ensemble of sweats, rarely deviating from his tried-and-true fashion formula. Every now and then, of course, Bieber likes to flex his menswear chops in a droopy designer blazer or a cocooning leather jacket. Mostly, though, his day-to-day outfits are far more predictable—and, luckily for us, far more accessible.

Yesterday afternoon, sightings of Bieber at his coziest were at a record high, as he whizzed around lower Manhattan on a Citi Bike wearing one of his patented slouchy fits. Pink trucker hat, hoodie zipped to the navel, gray sweat shorts, scrunched-up crew socks, sunshine-yellow Crocs? Hail, hail, the gang's all here!

From the way he was dressed, you'd think Bieber was on a bacon-egg-and-cheese run to the closest bodega, and not, in fact, on a date with his wife, who tagged along to Bar Pitti in a strawberry-red Vivienne Westwood dress and matching heels. Nahmias trucker hat and Balenciaga sweats aside, the rest of Bieber's look is fairly standard stuff. (Yes, uber-relaxed sweat shorts and don't-bother-me-Crocs are standard.) But what really caught our eye is his hoodie, a discreet zip-up number from Champion, the first name in affordable all-American sportswear.

Champion

Full zip hoodie

Amazon

By now, Bieber's closet is host to a collection of hoodies that any fashion fiend—or hardboiled vintage lover—would be proud to call their own; he can buy any hoodie in the world, and he still favors the classics. His Champion hoodie is well-made, well-fitting, and could go toe-to-toe with most of its luxury counterparts. Champion has been making 'em that way for over a century—is it any surprise they still set the standard?

Justin Bieber's exact hoodie retails for just under $30, but it's surprisingly difficult to find at major retailers, another testament to his obscure tastes. Mercifully, a grip of near-identical versions are available at Amazon. Buy a couple now and they'll be at your front door before your next dinner date.