Hollister
 

Do any of you shop at Hollister? A new one is being built in our mall...I can't wait! My friend has a job lined up there when the remodeling is finished...and she said something about a community dressing room....kind of weird. Are all of the Hollister's like that?

meh...I can tear my own jeans.

I had a friend of a friend who worked at one...they said their managers had to rate the applicants on how hot they were...anyone under an 8 didn't get hired, no matter what retail experience they had. Bullshit if you ask me.

what's holisters?

I'm not a fan of Hollister, the store is always loud, crowded, and with bad ventilation. Also, the quality isn't always that great. It's like a cheaper version of Abercrombie. I got a shirt there once, and had to return it the next day, because after I wore it out once for a few hours only, the seam started to come undone. That's a sign of great crafstsmanship.:rolleyes:

That's true, at least my friend who was a manager there (and later one at Abercrombie) told me that same thing. He didn't tell me about an exact number but he said that they hire people with a certain look. Man, he was HOT...I kind of miss him.

And yes, they do have community dressing rooms, but I mean it's not that weird, you have a bra and underwear on which is pretty similar to a bikini, I guess just make sure you're not wearing ugly granny panties on the day you decide to go shop at Hollister. :p


We're getting a Forever 21 here in the fall, and though the quality of the clothes there is crap they are cheap and good for going out purposes...I can't wait! :D

Our Hollister doesn't really have community changing rooms, but it's just a curtain divider. I rarely shop there, but my younger sisters do.

And they definitely do hire based on looks, my sister was shopping there and a girl employee tried to get my sister to fill out an application. :rolleyes:

I'm not a fan of Hollister, or Abercrombie for that matter. I just hate how anything you buy from there has to say HOLLISTER all over it.. tacky in my opinion. The quality of clothing isn't good... I would say their stuff would be best for days on the beach or by the pool, nothing more.

ETA: they make their shorts and skirts extremmmely tiny, basically like undies :eek:

I've noticed a lot of companies do that now. I was shopping at Bebe with one of my pledge sisters today and I saw a really cute pair of boyshort undies. Then I was informed that no no, it's actually real shorts, just ones in which about half your ass hangs out of them.

I know! I hate it.. I think that most of the companies don't realize that very very very few girls can pull of short shorts, and the majority that wear them just gross everyone else out.

i don't get those or super low rise jeans, i mean, where the hell do i find a pair of jeans nowadays where half my rear isn't hanging out of them?! grrrrrrrrrrr...

I did buy a really cute pair of pink pants from Hollister, but the inside around the waist was this like glittery belt that drove me so crazy. I think to wear them, I would either have to wear some huge granny panties or panty hose under them so they wouldn't bother me.

My ex-boyfriend from college was a manager at A&F and then at Hollister and he told me that his boss told him not to hire anyone bigger than a size 4 AND "don't hire anyone who you wouldn't want to wake up with the next morning". He also told me that the people who work there totally talk smack about customers all the time. I told him that was a really odd way to attract customers and he said obviously it didn't matter because the stores all do really well. :rolleyes:

Needless to say I still feel uncomfortable shopping there because I feel like someone is talking about me every time I'm there.

my daughter and i were at hollister and she spotted a shirt that she liked. she tried it on and it worked, so we went to purchase it. after we stood in line for about 15 or 20 minutes and finally made it to the counter, the salesgirl informed us that she couldn't sell us that top because it was tagged"display." she told us to go back and get another one. well, as luck would have it, it was the only xs in the store. she said it didn't matter, she still could not sell it to us, that it was for display purposes only and if she sold it the merchandisers would get really mad at her. i asked her if it was better to lose a sale and a customer and she just shrugged her shoulders. hasta la vista hollister!!

I don't know if this was part of a weird affirmative action thing in the store's eyes or what, but one time I went to the Abercrombie in NYC and the girl who was working the dressing room was about a size 8 or a 10 (which by Abercrombie standards is huge) and wasn't wearing makeup or anything and had a few pimples and kinda frizzy hair. She was still really pretty, but it felt so surreal seeing a real person working at Abercrombie.

Ughhhhh, we get that all the time at Abercrombie and Hollister. My sister wears an XS, and they're all marked for display.

ALl of the above are reasons I do not shop at Abercrombie and Hollister...that and I dont think they make clothes for the "larger female".

It's what Old Navy is to Gap for Abercrombie targetting pre-teen shoppers.

-Rudey

My ex was such an asshole/superficial jerk...he said that when he worked at A&F someone asked him why they didn't carry sizes 14 and up and he told them that if they wanted those sizes they'd have to go to Lane Bryant. He was legitimately shocked that someone would think they carried "those" sizes. :rolleyes:

Like A+F, I love their polo shirts, but I wouldn't touch anything else in there with a 10 foot pole.

A&F sizes are also teeny tiny. I wear small or medium shirts from everywhere else. In there, I'm like a large, which at times is snug on me.

LOL...you mean you DON'T want your ass hanging out of a ruffled mini???

I hate these skirts! They only look good on a handful of women. They even look horrible on little girls who can usually pull off crapy like this.

If there is one fashion trend that must die it is the ruffled mini.

Amen

I don't understand this trend either. it's a full skirt but it's a mini... so you look like you have a massive hip region and then your ass hangs out. How flattering. :rolleyes:

A+F you have to buy bigger sizes anyway because they all shrink to even SMALL after you buy them.

My friend worked at Hollister for a while and always made fun of her manager. Appearantly he was total dumb surfer type "dude" who talked kinda slow and was always saying stuff like" re-mem-ber, you must always promote the California,Hollister life style"

I must admit I own one piece of clothing from Hollister. It is a pink hoodie that says California on it. I really like it .

I don't know why they named the store after such a umm... shall we say "quaint" town, Hollister is in the middle of nowhere.

AMEN! No matter your age or size, if you are pass the 8th grade, you really shouldn't be wearing that.

I don't like Hollister or AF. If you any kind of curve (I'm not even talking being larger than a 14 or anything like that), the clothes are not made for you. Because I am a dd, if I were to buy a shirt at AF in my size, I would look like a Hooter's waitress (no offense to any Hooter's girls here :D) My shirt would look like it was holding on for dear life.

YES! THE SHORT RUFFLED SKIRT TREND MUST DIE!!!!

Now ifonly we could convince the rest of the female population of this. To me it just looks juvenile and not cute at all...it makes you look like a poodle, or a flamenco dancer.

I remember during easter mass, this 12 year old girl sitting beside me in the pew nealt down to pray...and her short ruffled skirt didn't even cover her bum! The worst thing is that her little sister was wearing the same one...and their mother and father were right beside them!!! I'm sorry, but your behind should not be showing ANYWHERE, let alone in church, let alone on EASTER.

I have a couple pairs of sweatpants from there and one shirt. 2 of the pairs of sweatpants I absolutely LOVED b/c they were long enough and so comfortable, and we're halfway down my ass. Unfortunately the other 3 all shrunk and now I can just wear them around the house :(

The shirt was made of really crappy material.

I don't own anything else from there nor do I feel the need to.

And I agree, ruffled minis must die. Your ass is not a cupcake.

I so just spit Dr Pepper everywhere!!!

My mom is from California, and she said the exact same thing the first time I took her in a Hollister store.

Hollister really hasn't picked up around here, which is a very good thing.

UGHH hollister and a&f make me feel bad. my chest is too big to fit in any of the shirts, and im 5'2 and a size 8, therefore none of the pants fit me either!
i do own an a&f mini denim .. and i love it, although .... it barely covers my butt ....
ill stick with AE and Express for jeans and other clothes :rolleyes:

guess i cant be as HIP as everyone else !!!!

Whenever I walk into a Hollister store (which has been probably about three times ever), I feel like I'm at a really overcrowded party. Minus the beer.

Anyway, their sizes are so unbelievably skewed it's not funny. I'm a 0 everywhere else & can wear Abercrombie Kids...but at Hollister, I'm apparently a size 7.

Now, whenever I go into Hollister, it's always kinda empty (except 1 time). I just left there a couple hours ago, and there was maybe 7-8 people in there. I love how dark it is with the spotlights, you don't see that often. Whenever I get a boyfriend, his first Christmas present is going to be Hollister cologne (but that's more for me than him ;) )