american apparel on flatbush
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Candicissima wrote: [quote=Jack]Call me an old hipster coot who still remembers having to go to Canal Jean on Broadway for such things, but I'm really baffled by the amount of designer t-shirt/jean/sneaker stores that have opened in Brooklyn South this past year. Is there that much demand?
Canal Jean...yes! I was completely floored when they replaced it with a Bloomingdales of all things! Anyways, I did too wonder what was the deal with all these "lifestyle" shops. Then I thought about all the luxury apartments cropping up and remember that those types have to shop somewhere. What better way to live in a $2800 Williamsburg apartment than with $175 jeans and $250 custom dunks!
The Canal Jeans at the junction is still open (just barely).
Canal Jeans, Unique, Antique Boutique... I think none of the stores from my Junior High School days are left! -
Carnivore wrote: The Canal Jeans at the junction is still open (just barely).
That place is weird. I have no idea how that particular branch does business. But they did open a new Canal Jean higher up on Broadway near 4th Street. But it's more like a boutique than the warehouse that ye olde Canal Jean was...Canal Jeans, Unique, Antique Boutique... I think none of the store from my Junior High School days are left!
Indeed! Sad it is. I do have a pile of Canal Jean buttons. And I think part of the reason those stores existed and survived on Broadway was because there was still an active garment industry down in SoHo and NoHo all the way up to the 1980s. They when they moved out, those stores lost suppliers of odd lots and *WHOOMP* there it is...
Wistful aging NYC youth. -
"The Canal Jeans at the junction is still open (just barely).
Canal Jeans, Unique, Antique Boutique... I think none of the stores from my Junior High School days are left!"
I so know what you mean my friend.
I was at the store at the Junction twice. I roll with my people at
Brooklyn College still
Once, two years ago or so, they were trying to be the lastest hip hop
clothing store
Earlier in the summer, I was there and noticed it had retained the
Salvation Army quality we remember, but it was mostly the entire
store and not just a section as it was back in the day.
Must find my Swatch watch now........and my neon everything. Hell, let
me just say outloud Reagan sucks, so I can revisit my so called
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i think you will see brooklyn industries in nj malls soon. i don't know anything about the company/founders, but after seeing one on lafayette street in manhattan, it looks to me that they are poised to go national with it (if they have the cash).
weird to think of a glassy modern american apparel store on flatbush... i thought the gym was taking over that movie theatre? -
Carnivore wrote: Canal Jeans, Unique, Antique Boutique... I think none of the stores from my Junior High School days are left!
Gah - Unique! That was my favorite place in the world and I had the gazillion buttons on my jean jacket to prove it. Also there was Zoot and Andy's Cheap-ees was still cheap. -
rita wrote: i think you will see brooklyn industries in nj malls soon. i don't know anything about the company/founders, but after seeing one on lafayette street in manhattan, it looks to me that they are poised to go national with it (if they have the cash).
If it means anything, I was semi-shocked to see what I thought was hipster-Brooklyn-only store 'Something Else' opened a branch on 86th Street in the heart of Bensonhurst.
I'm still wondering what the true market for hipster clothes with preworn assmarks in them is? -
Jack wrote: If it means anything, I was semi-shocked to see what I thought was hipster-Brooklyn-only store 'Something Else' opened a branch on 86th Street in the heart of Bensonhurst.
I hear it's getting pretty hip out there and in Bay Ridge. It's in the quiet stage of hipster infiltration. I know of a few models that have apartments in Bay Ridge.
I'm still wondering what the true market for hipster clothes with preworn assmarks in them is? -
Passed by the Flatbush Pavillion and lo and behold, there are American Apparel "coming soon" posters up on all surfaces. Grabbed a pic and posted it on my site right over here.
Note that the little hole you would talk to the ticket seller through is now the location of the base of a hipster model's lower lip.
Can't wait to see Dov Charney personally check this place out. Should be a hoot! -
candiccisima, are you serious about bay ridge and models? i think you're being facetious!
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ltjbukem wrote: candiccisima, are you serious about bay ridge and models? i think you're being facetious!
No, I'm being totally serious. Last year, I was at this party and met this hot Brazilian model dude. And he lived in a share with his model boy posse in Bay Ridge. -
Candicissima wrote: [quote=ltjbukem]candiccisima, are you serious about bay ridge and models? i think you're being facetious!
No, I'm being totally serious. Last year, I was at this party and met this hot Brazilian model dude. And he lived in a share with his model boy posse in Bay Ridge.
I know quite a few hipsters in bay ridge. 'Model posse' is so Zoolander. -
Brooklyn Industries continues their expansion: new store opening up on 7th btwn 8th and 9th in the space that used to be uprising. I just saw the sign go up, looks like they'll be open soon.
These guys are going nuts with the expansion, hopefully they can manage the growth so it doesn't do them in. -
i checked out some jeans at BI last weekend, and while they were really nice...$90!?!?!?!? wtf? miuccia prada could sign her name on them in babies' blood and i'd never spend that much on a pair of jeans! what is this world coming to?
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Ben wrote: These guys are going nuts with the expansion, hopefully they can manage the growth so it doesn't do them in.
Said it before and I'll say it again... What is up with the rate of growth of these t-shirt schmate stores? Is there really that much demand? -
Anyone seen their latest ad on the back of the new york press this week, hilarious. An elderly couple.
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Brooklyn Industries is so shady! My wife got a shirt from there as a present. The shirt was the wrong size. She tried to return it today with the gift receipt and they refused to exchange it because it had been more than 14 days. That is so obnoxious! They had the other size there, and she never wore the shirt.
I always thought the place was annoying before, mostly selling stuff to midwestern transplants so they can establish their Brooklyn cred. I'll definitely never buy anything there now. -
Carnivore wrote: Brooklyn Industries is so shady! My wife got a shirt from there as a present. The shirt was the wrong size. She tried to return it today with the gift receipt and they refused to exchange it because it had been more than 14 days. That is so obnoxious! They had the other size there, and she never wore the shirt.
Go to the owner. He'll straighten it out.
I always thought the place was annoying before, mostly selling stuff to midwestern transplants so they can establish their Brooklyn cred. I'll definitely never buy anything there now. -
American Apparel is basically competing with itself and opening too many stores. That said, i would not have my small Brooklyn based company with out this company. I have tried Alternative Apparel, AS Tees, Bella Tees all American made shirts, and the fact of the matter is the best quality, the best fits come from AA. There is not other shirt more flattering to real women than this company.
The stories about Dov are neither denied by him nor condoned by me.
In one breath we don't want sweatshops, in the other we call their items too expensive...it costs money to pay people a decent wage, it costs money not to go off shore, but no one is willing to really put their money where their mouth is and pay a little extra for something....we don't want Target but we love a bargain.
I have no answer, but until someone makes and American Made good fitting quality tee, I'm sticking with this company.
Despite my disgust of their over exposure. -
Carnivore wrote:
Are you takin' a shot at me and my hat?! :evil:
I always thought the place was annoying before, mostly selling stuff to midwestern transplants so they can establish their Brooklyn cred.
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Subject: Re: american apparel on flatbush
EmilyM wrote: [quote=Jack]Their stuff is really cool. I like the fact they sell shirts and items that are simply sized properly. Nowadays too many t-shirts and other items are ALWAYS oversized and look schleppy.
Ugh, even their stuff is too big for me. XS? Heard of it? But I digress.
I agree that for a place that basically sells itself as being non-evil, it is a little bit too evil.
Very much so. While they may be a clothing line that is produced in the U.S. it is only a little better than sweatshops. The owner is vehemently opposed to any kind of labor organization and has stamped out any attempt to unionize the workers.
Basically it is a guy making tons of money convincing people that he cares about labor practices when he could care less.
Also, the whole harrassment and sleeping with women to make thme models thing is pretty pathetic as well. -
nybt wrote: Are you takin' a shot at me and my hat?! :evil:
Me, try to razz you? Is that like me?
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This is far too complicated for t-shirts.
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the t-shirts I'm on the fence about. I like the softness and thinness of the fabric, but I'm kinda grossed out at how naked all the models are.
the thing that I find confusing are those absurd bands that they have. not music bands. like, these really long pieces of t-shirt material that you're supposed to wrap around yourself in elaborate ways.
now, this is taking it back several years, but does anyone else remember those stores that were really hot in the mid-to-late 80s that sold all of these tubes and leotards and you were supposed to dress yourself in this leotard, maybe one with long sleeves for the cold, and use these endless tubes as skirts, tube tops, layered skirts, etc? and then they started coming out with other pieces, all in the same stupid cotton/lycra material - stretch pants, wide leg pants, gauchos, boxy jackets. it was all very 80s and fugly. I think the store was called Units or something? anyway, that's what the stupid non-tshirt stuff at AA reminds me of. and it makes me really jittery - I feel all that coke from '87 catching up with me.
(in an even further aside, Donna Karen tried to reinvigorate the layered tube look in the late 90s. it failed.) -
Did someone say Naked Models!?
I'll take 10 shirts and 6 pants and 12 underoos.
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Subject: Re: american apparel on flatbush
rossmelanie wrote: An American Apparel store is opening on Flatbush b/w Sterling and Park Place. It's not a locally owned store, but at least it's made in the USA and w/o sweatshop labor:
It is great they're investing in the area but I hope they move that hideous looking marquee from the building
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Subject: Re: american apparel on flatbush
lovemynabe wrote: [quote=rossmelanie]An American Apparel store is opening on Flatbush b/w Sterling and Park Place. It's not a locally owned store, but at least it's made in the USA and w/o sweatshop labor:
It is great they're investing in the area but I hope they move that hideous looking marquee from the building
http://www.americanapparel.net/mission/
Are you talking about the movie theater marquee!? I hope they keep it, that thing is a neighborhood whateveryoucallitimportant. It is also indispensable for giving people direction to my place on park pl. -
Subject: Re: american apparel on flatbush
Captain M wrote: [quote=lovemynabe][quote=rossmelanie]An American Apparel store is opening on Flatbush b/w Sterling and Park Place. It's not a locally owned store, but at least it's made in the USA and w/o sweatshop labor:
It is great they're investing in the area but I hope they move that hideous looking marquee from the building
http://www.americanapparel.net/mission/
Are you talking about the movie theater marquee!? I hope they keep it, that thing is a neighborhood whateveryoucallitimportant. It is also indispensable for giving people direction to my place on park pl.
Frankly, I don't see this as a landmark. If the movie theater is no longer there, then the marquee should go as well. Keeping it there would continue to obscure the visibility of business signages on either side of it. Don't you think? -
No way, I love that marquee. Even before the poetry it made me smile.
I dont why I love it, I'd just hate to see it go.
oh, the other signage? Natural Sea Land has no problems, Antonios pizza signage is at a lower level and the Cell Phone place deserves nothing. Not to mention that "place" next door that sell sells all the stuff you have to go to chinatown for but they dont have a sign anyways, -
Subject: Re: american apparel on flatbush
lovemynabe wrote: Frankly, I don't see this as a landmark. If the movie theater is no longer there, then the marquee should go as well. Keeping it there would continue to obscure the visibility of business signages on either side of it. Don't you think?
I love a marquee.
In this particular case, I think it's the only thing of visual interest on that block. It gives the other signs something to aspire to, and in the meantime gives people a landmark to find the block (or the grocery next to it.) -
Good neews. I heard from a good source that they are keeping the marquee.
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