Teen Dept. stores. Are you kidding??

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Cathlete
My dd is turning 14 tomorrow and I took her shopping with her B-day money. Well I took her to the mall and I couldn't believe the stores she was taking me into! this one store was dark and had trees all around and had blaring music. First question is what's up with that? then we are looking around and I picked up a pair of jeans that had tears and holes in them, which I know they are made like that and they were $69.00. Come on, that is rediculous! If they had looked half way descent, I maybe would of paid half! Then there are shirts that were thin and cheap looking that were $50. I told her no way! I don't mind getting her clothes in popular stores but they will look descent! Heck I get some clothes in some of her favorite stores, but my gosh those jeans looked like some jeans at a yard sale someone used them to do yard work in!

My daughter ended up making some good choices of clothes but I can't believe that they will price clothes like that!


kim
 
I wouldn't pay that kind of money for that type of clothes. Your daughter can find ripped jeans and trendy t-shirts online for a better price (she can buy more and she probably won't see a friend of hers wearing the same thing). For $69 she can get a good pair of boot cut jeans (without holes and not extremely trendy it'll go out of style in a couple of months) that can last her more than a year.

A lot of trendy stores have extremely high mark-ups for cheaply made clothes, but sometimes they have to pay a lot for the location of the store. If you want to have a store in the biggest mall in my area you'll have to pay about $25,000+ a month (depending on the location) for rent and give a percent of the sales to the owners. That's the way economy is.
 
yay i'm glad i have a boy ;) LOL! you know, i see these departments when shopping and i think it's just screams raunchy to me (at least what i see).


"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"

Debbie
 
Agree. I'd always buy my daughter a couple of expensive things for her bday/xmas (both in Dec) but that was it.

Agree the girls can look so sleezy. I laugh the boys just cover up more and the girls show so much more skin.

I think it's changing a little now - the sl^t look can't go on forever can it?
 
While I agree with you ladies 100%, try to remember that we were all 14 years old once and were frustrated with our moms when they "went off" on the current fashions. I am not saying you actually went off but it is clear that you don't like the clothes and your DD does (I personally HATE the torn up, stained, boyfriend drug me with his car look).

Maybe try to find similar styles at a store that has a bit better quality. I know what you mean and the clothes are so flimsey.

As for someone being happy they have a boy...my (older) brother was "going off" just yesterday to be because he had been jean shopping and he said everything looked like what he wore as a kid while cleaning the neighbors barn! Boys clothes are just as bad!
 
then we are looking around
>and I picked up a pair of jeans that had tears and holes in
>them, which I know they are made like that and they were
>$69.00.>
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> kim

i can usually get a similar pair from goodwill for $2 if you don't mind a few stains LOL. i don't know what's up with these stores.the only store i paid more then $20 for a pair of pant was at hot topic and even then i shop off the clearance rack and usually get the good stuff for more then half off. i think its what they see on their celeb idols and its like a status symbol. i was never into that so i never understood why parents would pay that much on the kids for clothes they will only wear for 6 months before something else was in style. i guess b/c i bought my own clothes since i was 14 i understand there are better ways to spend the other $40.


kassia



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disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey
 
Last time I went in "The Gap," I was unable to find anything I liked because most of the jeans looked like something I would turn into a rag! Even the ones that didn't have holes in were so thin that I couldn't imagine them lasting for more than a few months. Planned obsolescence, anyone?

When I went into a different store in the same shopping center, a woman was exiting, making a comment about having thrown out clothes in better shape that some of those being sold!!

If that's the look someone wants, you can get it much more affordably at a second-hand shop (though the clothes there might be in "too good" a condition!LOL!)
 
Oy, teens and their clothes. My 13-yr. old niece lives in a rather wealthy section of Pennsylvania, and all of her friends are little heiresses-to-be. When she comes to New York, she wants to go to all the exclusive boutiques, and it's a real eye-opener for me. I can't afford anything in those stores.

Thank goodness her Mom knows how to lay down the law with her. Neither her Mom nor her Dad are particularly interested in shopping, so I secretly suspect she inherited her shopping gene from me. I always seem to be a willing accomplice. }(

I sure don't envy you Moms with teenage daughters.

-Nancy
 
The store I thought that had the ugliest jeans for sixty nine dollars was hollister. I couldn't remember it yesterday. That is a store that I hope my daughter will not care much for but she better get a job if she does! I did take her to Aeropostle that seemed like a popular teen store but not so ugly clothes. These clothes were descent looking and the style that is in. I have even gotten a pair of jeans there before and I like the way the clothes fit. She even dragged me into American Eagle and that wasn't so bad. Now some of the stuff is kind of pricey! she found some good deals though! And another thing, my dd bought 2 pair of boy cut underwear and it had the stores name written all across the back in. what's up with that? Hell I let her have them anyway.



It is definitely an experience being a parent of teenagers! What happened to them liking the childrens place?:p


kim
 
I actually got 2 hand me down shirts from hollister from my daughter and I love them. Its a polo shirt and pink henley. Yes they run VERY small. I'm an xs and hollister small fits just right.

Re the gap.. that's odd I just went there and got 2 great pairs of pants (stretch boot cut) on sale for 25/each and 3 turtlenecks 20 each so that was just over $100. This fall I got a really cute cordury skirt.

Also I definetly think the boys are much easier to shop for. Loose cargos, hooded sweatshirts and t-shitrts. The under armour is SO expensive though. Of course they need metal, heat gear, turf gear, all season and now cold weather gear!
 
Hmm, sounds like you were shopping at A&F. I HATE that store. I cannot understand why people would pay good money for such inferior clothes. But it's trendy.
 
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