Hollister???

OK...Californians should know what the real Hollister is.

Not a laid back, surfer beach town (in fact it's 20 miles away from the nearest beach) but a small agricultural town that bikers frequent once a year. Ever see Brando in "The Wild Ones"? That's Hollister. Their newspaper is called The Pajaronian.

Nuff said.

So now Abercrombie and Fitch comes out with a surfer line of clothing - and its obvious the marketing crew there has never even been to California or looked at a map. They could have chosen NUMEROUS beach towns to name their line after. Half Moon Bay - sounds sexy, don't it? Pacifica - now that's a line that makes you think surf culture, even if it has become a bedroom community for San Francisco.

But Hollister ???

That's like trying to go for a New York City feel, so you decide to name your brand "Bethel."

They only sell clothes in teeny tiny sizes. Walking around in a Hollister shirt here is basically screaming out to the world "ZOMG LOOK HOW FREAKING THIN I AM!!!!!11 I FIT INTO TEH HOLLISTER CLOTHES!!!1!1"

Needless to say, I have never entered that store, and likely never will.

edited for zee speeeling

Clothes at both stores do not come in sizes above 6. The idea is that if they have larger people wearing them, then the clothes are not selling to the demographic they would like and thus sending out the wrong image. Fucking fascist if you ask me.

Rue 21 also sucks, probably the same company.

maybe i should push you in, and then i'd be almost as smart as you?

*smooch*

My complaint with them is the music is so fricking loud. I finally said to one of the guys behind the register that if they turned the music down a bit, perhaps the adults with the credit cards that wouldn't be declined would hang around.

is an unhealthy one. "You shouldn't wear anything over a size 6" is not a lesson I'd want my teenage daughter to take to heart. Ugh. :(

growing, and are still in a Tanner stage IV, it's not unreasonable that they wear small sizes. I wore a small size as a younger teen, and a larger one as an older teen when I finished puberty.

Then again, I wore a large size as a teen and got smaller as I got older. We're all different, I guess. I just tend to get upset over things like this--I was one of those girls who could never wear the "cool" skinny girl clothes, and shop at the cute little Hollister-esque boutiques, and I remember how much I hated myself and my body over that. It seems like such a small thing as an adult--adults have much larger and more important priorities. But for a teenage girl, things like that can be intensely painful.

Sorry Midlo--I don't mean to sound argumentative. It's just a painful sore place for me that's easily touched off when talking about issues like this. :(

A town that has as much to do with surf culture as Fresno.

did a story on the Hollister line of clothing in 2002, when I was its city editor. The name has nothing to do with the town.

The "Pajaronian" would be the Register-Pajaronian, which is in Watsonville, about 20 miles WNW of here.

But, yes — "The Wild One" was indeed based on a "riot" (more like a skirmish) that happened here July 4, 1947. The central figures were members of a motorcycle club called the Booze Fighters.

And to think I had them all memorized at one time...

Want me to quiz ya? :7

From my days as a journalist and a State Assemblyman's Press lackey.

We might've spoken on the phone. :hi:

colostomy appliances...

http://www.nextag.com/hollister-colostomy-pouch/search-html

I used to do their faux finishing - they have surfboards and skateboards and chairs and whatnot that all are supposed to look worn and well-used that are bought brand new and fauxed-old. It's just like their clothing, imo: fake street cred. I don't get it. I don't mind some of the styles so much, but... when I want a ringer T-shirt, I go to the thrift store and use the $20 I save for something else.