Monday, 07 December 2009

• Hollister = Overly Priced Clothing for Clones

   

  So, my boyfriend works at Hollister in the mall. I have nothing against Hollister, really...I was always kind of a band nerd in high school and not really much into labels, and when he got the job, I was just glad that he was glad to have a job that paid. Although, I do kind of think that people who buy specifically clothing from (and ONLY from) the following places are a bit prejudiced at times:

  1) Aeropostale

  2) Abercrombie and Fitch

  3) Hollister

  4) American Eagle

  I would say, however, that American Eagle is the least bad out of these. ANYways, I have learned a few things about the establishment he works at that have reinforced my way of thinking: that it's overly priced clothing for clones. Don't mean to offend anyone, that's just what I think. Maybe you'll think a little differently about it and what you buy from there once I've said my piece. These are just a few of the policies that Hollister has towards its employees and customers:

  1) I was trying to find a sweater one day in there. My boyfriend gets a discount, so he's always encouraging me to look around and pick out something I like. Well, I looked and looked but could not find this particular, knee length gray sweater that I thought would look great with leggings and I had seen in there a few weeks earlier on a visit to see him. I asked him where it might be. I had looked on the same rack where I had seen it, but it was nowhere to be found. After a while of searching, I found it and he had just shrugged and said, "I guess it was in the clearance stuff. They keep the clearance stuff in the back." This made no sense to me. Isn't clearance stuff usually in the front of a place?! When I asked him why that was, he just answered as if it was as clear as day, "Well, because they want you to buy the more expensive clothing that's out front." Ohhhhh. Well, of course, why didn't I think of that?

  2) They have lots of very specific "look" requirements. They want the guys to be clean shaven, wearing belts and only Hollister sandals and clothing. Same for the girls, except for the shaving. The girls are supposed to look fresh faced, so no eye liner and they usually want girls with longer hair. All the girls and guys are supposed to have nice physique as well. My boyfriend explained this by pointing at some of the models pictures that they have in the store, which are blown up and on some of the walls. "They want us to look like that. We're basically modeling the clothing." They even made him send his picture into Hollister's modeling company. It's required when you work there. I mean, sure, if modeling's your thing, but why make it required?!

  3) You know that intoxicating smell that seems to always be radiating from the place? Well, there's a reason for that. It has pheremones in it, which make some people feel a sense of calm, euphoria, whatever--it just smells plain good. And there's no crime in that. But what made me crack up in incredulity was when I saw a bottle of the spray that my boyfriend had pulled out when I had visited him another time. "Wait, let me see that." I looked closely. It had alot of big writing on it in print--more than I was used to seeing on a perfume spray bottle. Well, this is what it said, basically: Spray 3 times on every rack of clothing from 12 inches away. Spray every 30 minutes. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!

  So, am I right for thinking all this stuff is bogus? I want your opinion, ladies. Because, I don't know about you..but I don't want to shop somewhere where they purposefully hide the bargains, have strange physical requirements and are so specific about where they spray this crap.

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