The Handstyle Hoodie Colourways, Ranked by Wearability

Nine hoodies, one cut, one hand-drawn mark printed across the chest, and the only thing separating them is colour — which is how a two-minute purchase turns into twenty minutes of squinting at product photos. The hoodie listings on Geedup Australia don’t rank the colourways and there’s no particular reason they would, so the ranking below leans on something a fair bit duller than taste: how each pairing holds up after a few months of real wear rather than how it photographs under a studio light.

Nine combinations, and what they actually are

Handstyle carries the widest colour spread of anything in the Geedup hoodie range, wider than PFK or the Mono Logo pieces, and it runs roughly like this: Black/White, Red & Black, Blue, Green/White, Graphite/Pale Blue, a grey paired with sky blue, Lavender Black, Black/Burnt Orange, and Maroon/Cream. Price barely shifts across the set — a few sit at A$⁠145 and the rest at A$⁠149 — so money isn’t quietly making the decision for you here, which is freeing and a bit unhelpful at the same time.

It’s probably worth clearing something up before the ranking starts, which is that Handstyle names the printed mark rather than a separate garment, so all nine of them are running the same premium cotton-polyester blend fleece underneath (XS through 4XL, same as the rest of the hoodies) and the colour pair tends to name the body first and the print second.

The forgiving end of the scale

Black/White is the colourway that disappears into everything. The fleece hides the lot, the white mark reads cleanly from a distance, and nothing in the combination needs managing day to day, which is probably why it tends to be the first Handstyle hoodie people buy and the one they keep reaching for in a second Melbourne winter.

Black/Burnt Orange sits almost level with it — same black body, same low-stress maintenance, just with a warmer print that stops the whole thing reading as plain black. Red & Black is a step livelier without being loud, and red fleece turns out to be surprisingly good at hiding marks. Blue, which the site lists simply as that, lands in the same bracket: dark enough to forgive, plain enough to wear with grey or black trousers without anybody thinking about it.

The ones that keep you honest

Maroon/Cream is the hardest of the nine to live with, and it’s also probably the best-looking. Cream shows cuff grime first, then the inside of the collar, then everything else, and on a hoodie somebody actually wears those are precisely the three places that get touched most. Lavender Black runs into a softer version of the same problem — pale lavender is a lovely colour that registers a mark the moment one lands.

Green/White and Graphite/Pale Blue sit in the middle, and graphite is dark enough to behave while the pale-blue print keeps it from looking like plain charcoal. Then there’s the grey and sky blue pairing, which looks great and happens to be the single best surface for displaying white lint ever invented. It rewards anyone who owns a lint roller and quietly punishes everybody else.

Ranked, from the least demanding down

Pairing a colourway with bottoms

Colour choices get trickier once a hoodie stops working on its own. A black or graphite Handstyle will sit happily under almost any tracksuit pant, whereas the maroon and the lavender want a bottom half that stays out of the way entirely, which in practice means black or a plain grey. If a tracksuit set is the plan rather than a single piece, the pants and sets listed under Geedup Tracksuit Australia are where that pairing gets settled, and matching one strong colourway to a quiet bottom half is usually a better bet than tying two strong colours together. A kids’ tracksuit follows the same logic, except children find cream-coloured trouble considerably faster than adults do.

The numbers worth knowing before the parcel arrives

Colour is the thing people most often change their mind about once a hoodie is in their hands, so the delivery and returns timings matter more here than they would for a plain black order. Orders are processed within 1–3 business days of payment, with the shop’s hours running Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm. Standard delivery is quoted at 8–12 business days, fast at 5–7, and international at 12–15. Postage gets worked out at checkout rather than shown up front, there’s no free-shipping threshold published anywhere that I could find, and a tracking number turns up by email once the order is moving.

Returns run on a clock of 14 days from the day the order actually reaches you — not from the day you ordered it, which catches people out — and the hoodie has to be unworn, unwashed and unaltered. The process starts with a message to support quoting the order number and the reason — nothing should be posted back before that’s sorted. Approved refunds go to the original payment method and can take another 5–10 business days to surface, which is bank timing rather than shop timing. Anything faulty, damaged or simply the wrong item needs flagging within 48 hours of delivery, and return postage can land on you unless the error was theirs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Handstyle colourway should a first-time buyer pick?

Black/White, almost every time. It’s the least demanding of the nine, it reads well in photos and in person, and it won’t make anybody think about lint or cuff marks for a single second. Save the cream or the lavender for a second hoodie, once you know how the fit suits you.

Do the lighter colourways cost more?

No, and there isn’t much of a pattern to it either. The Handstyle hoodies split between A$⁠145 and A$⁠149, and the darker and lighter options turn up on both sides of that line, so colour and price aren’t connected in the way you might assume.

What happens if the colour looks different in person?

That’s what the 14 days are for, provided the hoodie hasn’t been worn or washed — and a cold wash, inside out, is the sort of thing to save for after you’ve decided to keep it. Message support with the order number, wait for the go-ahead, then send it back, keeping in mind that return postage may be yours in a change-of-mind case.

Pick the base colour against the trousers already hanging in your wardrobe rather than against the photo, and nine options narrow down to two or three fairly quickly. Go dark for a first Handstyle from Geedup Co and keep the cream or the lavender in mind for later, once you know how the fleece wears and how often you reach for it.