word. My main gripe about hollister / a+f / american eagly is that the stuff is just so unoriginal. Like it scares me. I went into an abercrombie a few months ago and saw a rack with a shirt that looked like it had some dirt on it. I looked at the ohter shirts on the rack behind it and every single shirt on the rack had the same exact stain on it. Why should you spend money on clothes that are made to look like they were worn already? That doesn't make any sense.
Also, the entire image is fabricated and false. 99% of the people who shop there don't live the lifestyle that is advocated by the store. Meaning, almost none of the shoppers there live on southern california beaches and surf all the time. If thats not being a poser, I don't know what is. The same argument applies to "thug" fashion, but thats a different story, which brings me to my next point.
Why do people think there are two different genres of fashion, preppy and thug? I am neither, and a ton of other people are neither thug nor preppy. There is a middle ground! A friend of mine made fun of my fashion sense and style, yet he owns NOTHING other than a+f, ae, and hollister, so that really made no sense. Just be yourself, and if being yourself means only wearing the fake preppy brands so be it, albeit its slightly unfortunate.
That doesn't even bring up the fact that almost all these companies use sweatshop labor and all that bad stuff