ready or not!

kristina · February 2006

American Apparel is coming for you!
Park Slope

314 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tel. (718) 230-3705

Opening: Spring 2006

... cut and pasted from american apparel's website.[/img]

amyskittysitting · February 2006

Subject: Re: ready or not!

kristina wrote: American Apparel is coming for you!
Park Slope

314 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tel. (718) 230-3705

Opening: Spring 2006

... cut and pasted from american apparel's website.[/img]

I think there's one growing in Cobble Hill as well. I could do without their disturbingly sleezy photographs but I sure think their onesies in the summer are cuuuuuuute.

outeraccelerator · February 2006

their ads are soooo sleezy. ick.

i just love how these hipster yuppies can feel good about themselves for paying so much for it.

meganlibrarian · February 2006

outeraccelerator wrote: their ads are soooo sleezy. ick.

i just love how these hipster yuppies can feel good about themselves for paying so much for it.

Agreed on the ads. I was reading The Onion last night on the way home, and realized after about 3 minutes that an especially sleazy American Apparel ad appeared on the back page. Doh! I flipped the paper over it immediately upon remembering this. AA always advertises on the back cover of The Onion (as well as that free L publication, or whatever its called), and I never remember!

Some hipster yuppies may buy AA clothing because it could be their shorthand way to at least superficially support non-sweatshop labor.

I admit it - I do own one American Apparel shirt, bought simply because it looks really good on me and shows off my 46-pound weight loss very nicely. I also bought a T shirt at the Brooklyn T-shirt shop (7th Ave between 11th and 12th St) for my baby neice, which was printed on an AA shirt. I think that's where AA has to make their killing - selling their shirts to wholesalers for screen-printing.

alafairnadia · February 2006

meganlibrarian wrote: I admit it - I do own one American Apparel shirt, bought simply because it looks really good on me and shows off my 46-pound weight loss very nicely. I also bought a T shirt at the Brooklyn T-shirt shop (7th Ave between 11th and 12th St) for my baby neice, which was printed on an AA shirt. I think that's where AA has to make their killing - selling their shirts to wholesalers for screen-printing.

that's actually their original business. the storefronts are new. I still get emails from their wholesale dept even though the purchases I made were over 10 years ago, while still in college.

meganlibrarian · February 2006

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=meganlibrarian]I think that's where AA has to make their killing - selling their shirts to wholesalers for screen-printing.

that's actually their original business. the storefronts are new. I still get emails from their wholesale dept even though the purchases I made were over 10 years ago, while still in college.

Huh! I learn something new every day. Thank you, Daily Heights Message Boards!

tony balls · February 2006

that's the thing..........they sell a lot for wholesale, but at regular prices ($2-$5 a shirt before volume discounts). They make the most money off the jokers paying $15+ for a t-shirt.

My girlfriend and I have a few of their shirts (she likes em more than me....they show off her cute figure and my raging gut) but we bought em all at wholesale through a friend in Washington with a tax ID #. Canal Jean Co. appears to do something similar. I know i've seen them selling AA shirts for $10 a pop, a few doors down from where AA sells em for $15. hahahaha.

tony balls · February 2006

outeraccelerator wrote:
i just love how these hipster yuppies can feel good about themselves for paying so much for it.

Also, US made JERZEES t-shirts are available from a number of internet retailers for ~$3 a pop, which equals $12 extra bucks in yr pocket for beer.

pete_c · February 2006

At least its AA and not a Gap or the like. Sleazy though they may be, hipster as well, they aren't the worst apparel store ever.

$65 for a poorly-made cotton button down at a BR or a Gap? Um, thank you, no.

kristina · February 2006

I'm not too fond of their ad campaigns either...
but I do like to promote american industry where at least wages and hours are (we hope) regulated. Not most other giant companies who underpays peole in counties we'll never see.
Since the U.S is ready to pay more for Fair Trade coffee and organic produce, why not the same for clothing?

drano · February 2006

pete_c wrote: At least its AA and not a Gap or the like. Sleazy though they may be, hipster as well, they aren't the worst apparel store ever.

$65 for a poorly-made cotton button down at a BR or a Gap? Um, thank you, no.

Wow. "(not) the worst apparel store ever". Quite an endorsement. Think I'll run right out and buy some of their junk right now.

And I'll grant you this, I don't like too much from BR - but their T-shirts are excellent, if you wanna pay the price. Which I do.

I reckon AA has some labor policies that appeal to our progressive sensibilities. Ain't sure the same could be said about Dov Charney's attitude towards women, but I guess we'll see how it shakes out for him...

outeraccelerator · February 2006

someone brought up other us owned companies for t shirts, i also find that these are more normal sized.

american apparel's stuff runs really small. i.e. not for normal people. maybe guys stuff is okay. it still runs small though. which is to me, a way of them choosing who can wear their clothes. as in, no fat people please!

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