G-star stuff used to be ok..not your fault that it's considered chavvy now. Diesel has never been and will never be chavvy. Jeans should always be Italian and Diesel stuff is quality. I'm very selective though about which ones i buy. No overly distressed or ridiculously bleached effects for me. 'Levan' is my all time favourite line.
queue at hollister shop today...
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G-star stuff used to be ok..not your fault that it's considered chavvy now. Diesel has never been and will never be chavvy. Jeans should always be Italian and Diesel stuff is quality. I'm very selective though about which ones i buy. No overly distressed or ridiculously bleached effects for me. 'Levan' is my all time favourite line.
Soldato
junk is the ideal product. the ultimate merchandise. no sales talk necessary. the client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. the junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer. he sells the consumer to his product. he does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
From the 'cutmeownthroat Dibbler' school of merchandizing
(Pratchett fans will understand).
Caporegime
I have one pair of Jeans of theirs from ASOS (half price), its one of my favourites actually but I have gone back and looked a few times in their store. Never seen anything nice or of value. I look at the price and think to myself that I could get Diesel (same price) or even Paul Smith stuff for not much more. Would never ever buy their T-Shirts though, its just a billboard across the chest.
Consigliere
It isn't really "in", it's just a massive brand. The company i work for received around 150+ seperate lines of G-Star product. That's a lot of choice.
So far!
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Associate
I've just been looking at the A&F website and have a couple of questions to you fashion guru's out there.....
The first pic which pops up on the A&F website is of a rather gay looking chap so does the brand sway that way?
All the clothes on the website look like they've been just picked up off the floor so was wondering what kind of age range they are marketed at?
The first pic which pops up on the A&F website is of a rather gay looking chap so does the brand sway that way?
All the clothes on the website look like they've been just picked up off the floor so was wondering what kind of age range they are marketed at?
I must be getting old as I just don't *get* the appeal of this Hollister brand?!
The whole queue thing is all about creating hype and a 'buzz' surrounding the brand, by making the store appear very popular and like its in demand. The stores themselves are WAY too dark, cramped and poorly laid out - in one sense I can understand why they enforce the queue outside!
The clothes themselves are meh really. Decent but overpriced for what they are and I do kind of resent paying over the odds for the privilege of advertising the brand every time I wear their wares...
Judging by the people wandering round Cambridge with their bags there certainly seems to be a certain 'look at me' element to having one of their bags in your hands...
The whole queue thing is all about creating hype and a 'buzz' surrounding the brand, by making the store appear very popular and like its in demand. The stores themselves are WAY too dark, cramped and poorly laid out - in one sense I can understand why they enforce the queue outside!
The clothes themselves are meh really. Decent but overpriced for what they are and I do kind of resent paying over the odds for the privilege of advertising the brand every time I wear their wares...
Judging by the people wandering round Cambridge with their bags there certainly seems to be a certain 'look at me' element to having one of their bags in your hands...
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Soldato
It isn't really "in", it's just a massive brand. The company i work for received around 150+ seperate lines of G-Star product. That's a lot of choice.
So far!
But if the company you work for stocks a lot of Gstar then surely it sells well, for them to keep restocking? so it must be the 'in' thing if many people buy into the brand, no?
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I think you're reading in to it a bit too much
Hollister can be hell to walk around at the weekend because there's so many people in there but their designs are fairly simple, quite good quality and reasonable prices so I don't have a problem from buying from there. I'd rather go there and pay £25 for a decent jumper than £30 for a tight, thin t-shirt with G-Unit written across it and bad stitching from USC.
American Eagle is another one I like but I don't think there's any in the UK at the moment.
At the end of the day, choice is good. You get bored of only having Next for guys clothes haha. I do wonder what some of you must wear the amount you rip the back out of every clothing shop around. Do you knit it yourselves?
All their clothes are aimed at college and uni students. The 'prep look' as it's known as in the US.
The quality of their clothes is actually excellent, relatively speaking.
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I was at the hollister shop in Westfield yesterday. They needed a queue out the front, it is a pretty small shop inside and was a free for all, I do like their clothes and their prices are pretty good but the shop layout is really poor.
Associate
lol at some of the individuals in this thread. What ever happened to the old shopping method of find something you like and, providing you have the money, buying it? Personally i judge people on their personality and the quality of their company as oppose to their clothes but hey whatever works for you guys i suppose 
With regards to the brand in question my girlfriend currently has a thing for Hollister, A & F, etc. I asked her what the appeal is and she couldn't really give an answer as to why as i don't think she could bring herself to admit she gets it as it's the in thing. So got to hand it to them, their marketing department has done it's job well as there are so many people out there getting their gear. The shops are very different, perhaps that's the idea to make it stand out from the rest of the high street, personally i'm not a big fan. I find their clothes rather uninspiring for the money.
As for G-star etc. all being chav brands, you guys got some well off chavs, big up the mcKenzie boi!!! brap brap
With regards to the brand in question my girlfriend currently has a thing for Hollister, A & F, etc. I asked her what the appeal is and she couldn't really give an answer as to why as i don't think she could bring herself to admit she gets it as it's the in thing. So got to hand it to them, their marketing department has done it's job well as there are so many people out there getting their gear. The shops are very different, perhaps that's the idea to make it stand out from the rest of the high street, personally i'm not a big fan. I find their clothes rather uninspiring for the money.
As for G-star etc. all being chav brands, you guys got some well off chavs, big up the mcKenzie boi!!! brap brap
Soldato
As for G-star etc. all being chav brands, you guys got some well off chavs, big up the mcKenzie boi!!! brap brap
And as a JD Sports employee McKenzie is definitely THE chav brand
Don't understand the obsession with Hollister here, the clothes don't really suit our bleak weather/sky
And any brand thats tee design is just their name huge on the torso, paying someone to do their advertising ?!?!?! insane
Soldato
went in today for the first time,
Brb immediately feeling like a douchebag deciding between "dudes" section and the "bittys"
Brb not being well lit enough able to see the clothes you might buy
Brb squeezing into fitting rooms the size of airing cupboards
Brb feeling roasting hot
Brb immediately feeling like a douchebag deciding between "dudes" section and the "bittys"
Brb not being well lit enough able to see the clothes you might buy
Brb squeezing into fitting rooms the size of airing cupboards
Brb feeling roasting hot
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Man of Honour
Brb?
Soldato
I went in the other day. Music as loud as normal! Some different staff since the last time I'd been in. OM NOM NOM the girl at the door :cool.
:cool.