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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
What Dan wishes he was....instead he's chosen to simply keep the immature, high school snarkiness of his youth going.
A bulimia-inducing merchant.
How so? Should they only sell clothes for fat chicks?
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they have, it's called Eddie Bauer.....
I do admit to enjoying the hell out of their cheap jewelry, however.
@19: So they specialize in petites? Not necessarily a bad thing, as options for petite women tend to be limited in many stores.
But I'll get over it. Just like I got over Nordstrom destroying the Frederick & Nelson building. I just need to accept that Nobody's got no class anymore.
Right!
And we suburbanites have had a Forever 21 at Southcenter mall like so all the time.
But the "CITY" is completely different from the "BURBS".
Yes, that's right is so totally different...reason?
We have our Forever 21 INSIDE...IN A MALL...WHERE IT DOESN'T RAIN ON CUSTOMERS!!
But PLEASE...KEEP TELLING US how the CITY is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo full of CULTURE and all the things YOU do that everyone doesn't do.
Like how they projected Goddard movies on the sidewalk or some other BS.
seemed apropos
Christ, if you people ever saw a Wet Seal you'd have a stroke.
Of course, 90% of what they sell is absolutely hideous, they always play shitty music and I would never, ever wait in a line to get into one, but I'm so short their trampy dresses end up looking normally-sized and cute on me!
They know their market.
But if they were giving something away the first day, I forgive those people standing in line. The line for the giveaway at Urban Craft Uprising is twice as long.
Part of what used to be our I. Magnin is now a Cheesecake Factory. I picture placing one of I. Magnin's elegant, floral shopping bags next to a "Big Brown Bag" from Bloomingdale's and letting the two speak for themselves.
To me, part of remaining "forever 21" is to maintain a youthful, rebellious and healthy skepticism of rapacious, tax-dodging, sweatshop-running clone stores.
Anyways, have you guys checked out their array of cardigans? I hate to say it but my favorite piece of my business casual wardrobe is from forever 21.
Forever 21 is kinda dear to me because in my experience in various US cities they've been extremely trans-friendly with respect to fitting rooms and giving sales advice, etc. I've bought a lot of cute androgynous stuff there, without paying too much, either.
I was 5'10" by the time I was 12, hence I have never been able to fit into their clothes. Even when I was a skinny teenager with no boobs or hips, the dresses wouldn't come down far enough to cover my underpants.
But hey, that is the case for 90% of clothing made for juniors. Although there are many big & tall men's stores around the country, I have found only one chain on the continet that specializes in tall women's clothes (Long Tall Sally in Canada - women in the U.S. have to be content with their catalogue)
In my perfect world, every department store with a petites section would have a "tall woman" section too. Sigh...
It's also much quicker to ask for a donation from a small business - with the chains, you generally have to apply a month in advance, or go through their corporate office (in which case they don't wanna talk to you unless you are a nationally-known nonprofit that can give them a lot of advertising about their donation)
This is the PERFECT store for all Americans!! Shop away. Now excuse me, I've got Will and Kate down in the swimming pool on the TARDIS.
No idea what Forever 21 is though :) We don't have those in Winnipeg. Dunno why people are bashing it, the name itself basically tells you it's for young people.. and regardless of what it is, all women shop a little bit in a TON of stores! I bet any woman could find SOMETHING in there she liked. Accessories? Cheap tops? yes please.
On a side note, can we please limit the number of times anyone is allowed to write 'new Forever 21 location' in a single sentence? 4x is one sentence is just too much.
@58 Heh.
Other than that, meh.
That's what it is.
It was an absolutely gorgeous building, prior to the Old Navy renovation. A very severe facade of black and white marble. Basically, a miniature of the flagship store on Union Square in San Francisco. I used to buy stuff there a lot, because they had a little-known men's department. Since it was so little-known, they often had sales.
The inside screamed both class and money. You don't see that much in stores any more. It was expensive, but you could buy something at I. Magnin, and still have it twenty years later, if you took care of it.
It's funny: The old downtown Nordstrom was a dreadful place - a chintzy, tired-looking knockoff of Bloomingdales. Magnin and Frederick's were much better stores. But since Nordstrom had the perception of being both classy and accommodating (they got a lot of mileage off that old story about their accepting a pair of tires for return) they won in the end. But couture corner (which was the name for the intersection of sixth and pine back before even I was around) is but a shadow of its former self.
It is also for the very small crowd -- if you are much over 5'4" or so and not HWP, forget it. That said, I pick up things now and then over there -- not going to turn down three cami's for $5 or an occasional $10 pair of jeans. But it's a sizeist and ageist place to be, that's for sure.
It's getting harder and harder to find any places that make good, durable, well constructed stuff. Guess that's what you get when you allow trades and companies but not people to work anywhere globally.
I find it offensive to print a single religion's message on their merchandising (not that I would be buying from them anyway - not quite in their target demographic). But then, I also found it offensive when flying with Alaska Airlines to be preached to by my napkin.