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Chakan posted:Raw denim is just untreated, so you have to soak it once inside out in a hot bath before you wear it. It's really nothing special, but just like everything else people get obsessed about it trying to get good fade on their jeans & eventually you get a tweet about $500 jeans that were ruined by chipotle. Yeah if you eat that much chipotle you're not going to fit in your skinny jeans for too long.
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the old ceremony posted:i am a nudist Another millennial killing the clothing industry...
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Only the finest reclaimed river denim from me, hand boiled.
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loving millennial hipsters and their need to fabricate authenticity.
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Domestic Amuse posted:loving millennial hipsters and their need to fabricate authenticity. Hey man, it takes a lot of money to dress like you're poor.
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I mean I feel like if you actually fabricate it yourself it kind of is authentic. Stupid perhaps, but authentic.
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GEMorris posted:You Philistines wear non-selvedge denim? anonumos posted:My infant has functional pockets on his onesies. My wife does not even have fake pockets in her jeans.
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At the risk of interrupting denim/womenswear chat, Gap/Banana Republic are closing hundreds of stores: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/06/news/companies/gap-banana-republic-stores-closing/index.html
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Remember when The Gap thought that normcore was a real thing?
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Halloween Jack posted:Remember when The Gap thought that normcore was a real thing? They will be opening more Old Navy and Athleta stores, apparently. Athleta I get because yoga pants sell like crazy, but I would have thought Old Navy would be a relic. What are the offerings even like there now?
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bloodysabbath posted:I would have thought Old Navy would be a relic. What are the offerings even like there now? That's also why it's more successful right now, probably. Most people don't have huge amounts of money to sink into clothes anymore.
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I went into an Old Navy outlet store a few weeks back and holy poo poo the place was packed. People are still buying clothes but they're looking for deals, not fashion.
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Toys R Us is probably going under. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/toys-r-us-weighs-possible-bankruptcy-filing.html quote:Toys R Us hires law firm as it explores possible bankruptcy filing Toys R Us hires law firm as it explores possible bankruptcy filing I worked for TRU right out of high school from 2000-2003. Near the end of my employment, Amazon was making their way into the market but Walmart has recently tripled the number of toy items they carried. This was also before Target doubled their toy section as well. When I got laid off in 2003, KB Toys folded and TRU had already begun closing a bunch of low-performing stores. Management had already openly expressed that Toys R Us was dead, but the company would be propped up by Babies R Us for as long as they could. That's when they expanded the BRU sections in TRU or made every store a TRU/BRU combination store. Looks like the BRU money finally ran out. I'm guessing if they don't completely go away that they'll restructure as only Babies R Us with a small toy section now. Baby poo poo is still wildly profitable.
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 giraffeI used to like going to TRU when I was a kid in the early 90s, but yeah I can't see parents springing to actually buy anything there when its often >25% cheaper off Amazon. Also gently caress Gap, not surprised that they're dying off. Super overpriced basic-looking poo poo. I admit I kind of like some of Banana Republics stuff (mostly hit or miss) but it's also still 2x more than what I'd ever pay there when I can just go to Uniqlo or H&M or even Target instead and be happy
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Xaris posted:I used to like going to TRU when I was a kid in the early 90s, but yeah I can't see parents springing to actually buy anything there when its often >25% cheaper off Amazon. Honestly surprised they haven't been in bigger trouble earlier. Clothing retail could have a chance because a lot of people would still rather try on clothes before buying them, big box stores have the 'get a wide variety of things without waiting for shipping' factor but toys? It's not anything special and definitely not something you'd need urgently, why bother buying it from a brick and mortar place? e: I r very gud at spelling. Haifisch fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Haifisch posted:Plus when they buy off Amazon they don't have to deal with their kid racing around and seeing 50 more things they want right now. There's a little bit of specialness to letting a kid go to a store and pick out a toy themselves, but anybody doing that probably has their needs met by small local stores or the toy department of a big box store. As you said, TRU is overstimulating for kids and probably more trouble than it's worth, especially since their prices suck. I'm kind of surprised TRU never tried to shift into experience-oriented sales, like hosting birthday parties.
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Tying it back to women's wear, Old Navy had/ maybe still has (I haven't been inside one in years) the most blatant vanity sizing I've seen in a major retailer, to the point that shopping there could be more trouble than it was worth. Every other place, I wear a size medium t-shirt or tank top, and like... I'm fine with that. But at Old Navy I was magically an extra small, and I think pants I bought from there were always a size or two smaller than all my other pairs, despite having the same measurements. It just felt really pandering and obvious, and made finding clothes that fit right even more annoying than it already is, so I just stopped going. Which of course was no big loss, their clothes aren't great to begin with and every one of their stores I ever went to blasted awful music and looked like a cyclone hit it.
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Crow Jane posted:Tying it back to women's wear, Old Navy had/ maybe still has (I haven't been inside one in years) the most blatant vanity sizing I've seen in a major retailer, to the point that shopping there could be more trouble than it was worth. Every other place, I wear a size medium t-shirt or tank top, and like... I'm fine with that. But at Old Navy I was magically an extra small, and I think pants I bought from there were always a size or two smaller than all my other pairs, despite having the same measurements. It just felt really pandering and obvious, and made finding clothes that fit right even more annoying than it already is, so I just stopped going. Which of course was no big loss, their clothes aren't great to begin with and every one of their stores I ever went to blasted awful music and looked like a cyclone hit it. New pilot program announced by Gap inc., Old Navy Zero: Where every garment, regardless of the amount of fabric used to make it, is marked as a size zero. *Gap stock reaches Apple prices* *Torrid & Lane Bryant announce bankruptcy*
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Crow Jane posted:Tying it back to women's wear, Old Navy had/ maybe still has (I haven't been inside one in years) the most blatant vanity sizing I've seen in a major retailer, to the point that shopping there could be more trouble than it was worth. Every other place, I wear a size medium t-shirt or tank top, and like... I'm fine with that. But at Old Navy I was magically an extra small, and I think pants I bought from there were always a size or two smaller than all my other pairs, despite having the same measurements. It just felt really pandering and obvious, and made finding clothes that fit right even more annoying than it already is, so I just stopped going. Which of course was no big loss, their clothes aren't great to begin with and every one of their stores I ever went to blasted awful music and looked like a cyclone hit it. Yeah Old Navy's sizing is ridiculous. 
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Sizing should be a legally enforced thing, like saying your product contains 50% wool or this food has 12g of sugar. A 32" waist should be actually exactly 32" and so on.
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Small/medium/large is ambiguous enough that I'm not sure how you'd decide sizing for it, though. Solution: Standardized measurements for everything instead of this small/large petit/tall crap.
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Haifisch posted:Plus when they buy off Amazon they don't have to deal with their kid racing around and seeing 50 more things they want right now. Baby Registries have probably been keeping them alive for the last decade. The TRU division has been a walking corpse for 15 years now, it's all been about the baby stuff. Some of you may remember that Toys R Us's online strategy was to parter with Amazon. They signed a 10 year deal to be the only toy seller on Amazon. Amazon ended up loving them over and setting TRU's online strategy back a decade. quote:Prior to 2000, Toys R Us operated web sites at toysrus.com and babiesrus.com. By its own account, Toys R Us' online performance in 1999 was highly unsatisfactory. During 1999, Toys R Us did not have adequate inventory and fulfillment capabilities to meet the online demand for its products. http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case424.cfm
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FCKGW posted:Baby Registries have probably been keeping them alive for the last decade. The TRU division has been a walking corpse for 15 years now, it's all been about the baby stuff. I imagine that to other retailers, this felt like the moment in a movie where someone sells out the group to the villain and then Amazon turns to Toys R Us and says "You have served me well, and now you will be rewarded as a traitor deserves".
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bloodysabbath posted:They will be opening more Old Navy and Athleta stores, apparently. Athleta I get because yoga pants sell like crazy, but I would have thought Old Navy would be a relic. What are the offerings even like there now?
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Yeah Toys R Us wasn't Amazon's only failed retail partnership. There was also Target... https://www.ft.com/content/238a4243-18c2-31f6-b844-514045ef570c ...and UK retailer Marks & Spencer ... https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2382595/no-regrets-over-leaving-the-amazon-cloud-says-marks-spencer ... and a few acquisitions that ultimately got shut down - Quidsi (diapers.com, mom.com) and MyHabit being the more recent ones.
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bloodysabbath posted:New pilot program announced by Gap inc., Old Navy Zero: Where every garment, regardless of the amount of fabric used to make it, is marked as a size zero. It'd also be a form of indirect sabotage, customers would go into other retailers and tear the clothes trying them on because they know they're a size zero and they're gonna pull those tiny jeans up one way or another, dammit A friend of mine worked in a fairly upscale boutique and had to gently explain the Old Navy sizing thing to irate or embarrassed customers at least once a week
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bloodysabbath posted:New pilot program announced by Gap inc., Old Navy Zero: Where every garment, regardless of the amount of fabric used to make it, is marked as a size zero. Those three stores are completely different demographics.
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Halloween Jack posted:Remember when The Gap thought that normcore was a real thing? It will always be one of my fondest busines memories where everyone involved lived in a magical manhattan exclusive reality bubble.
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At least Jena Malone got a free pair of jeans out of it. I'm still not sure what normcore was supposed to be. Like, if it was just dressing in boring clothes, or if it was about dressing in ugly Napoleon Dynamite costumes on purpose.
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Halloween Jack posted:At least Jena Malone got a free pair of jeans out of it. I think it was supposed to be 20 somethings dressing like their parents did in the mid-90s, but gently caress if I really know for sure.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I think it was supposed to be 20 somethings dressing like their parents did in the mid-90s, but gently caress if I really know for sure. You want performative ironic nostalgia? Check out these jeans that look like something GUESS/Kelly Kapowski would wear! Why bother hunting through a dime store bin when you can get them at our shop.
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FilthyImp posted:It was supposed to piggyback on the whole Thrift Store aesthetic coming back to that not-quite grunge look from the 90s. That's not quite it, I think. That's just retro. Normcore was, as previously mentioned, a made-up press release prank, but people do use it now to describe a specific style of drab, body-unconscious (I just made that term up but you get it right, opposite of bodycon) dressing that doesn't highlight or enhance any part of the body. When I see fashion write-ups say "normcore" now it's almost always describing utilitiarian sandals like Birkenstocks, boxy tops in drab colors, and light-wash straight-leg jeans. There are definite 90s influences but the aesthetic is more about minimalism and "I'm so hot I can wear this ugly thing" than evoking a specific era. It's explicitly non-performative (which is of course itself a kind of performance but you know...)
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah Old Navy's sizing is ridiculous. All of the stuff I wear right now is from H&M, so now I know if I ever need to feel better about myself I'll just go try on some jeans at Old Navy.
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I get poo poo like "small" or "size 4" being pretty subjective, but an actual measurement in inches should maybe actually be that measurement in inches. It would be like ordering a "foot long" sub and getting something 11"
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Baronjutter posted:I get poo poo like "small" or "size 4" being pretty subjective, but an actual measurement in inches should maybe actually be that measurement in inches. It would be like ordering a "foot long" sub and getting something 11" I'm a 6'4" lady and if a brand offers different in seams at all on their pants, it can range anywhere from 32 to 38 as a correct fit for me depending on brand. Sometimes it even varies by line within a brand. It's loving awful.
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Baronjutter posted:It would be like ordering a "foot long" sub and getting something 11" What, completely typical for a century?
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fishmech posted:What, completely typical for a century? :gif of simpsons action guy doing stand up: Also people have tried to sue building supply places because they bought an "8x8" post and got home to find it was in fact not exactly 8" x 8".
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Baronjutter posted::gif of simpsons action guy doing stand up: I hate when 2 by 4s aren't 1.500" by 3.500"!
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