Jun. 25, 2007 - Forever 21
A while back I had the making of a blog in my head that never made it to my computer. A very entertaining blog in which I ranted about Forever 21 and sounded like a total old person. It went something like what I said to Jessamyn while shopping there. “ I know I sound like an old person and I can’t believe I’m saying this… but I hate this store. (if you don’t know Forever 21 is a clothing store geared to women who are, well, closer to 21 than I am and no larger than maybe your average eight year old. The floor is embedded with glitter reflecting off the fluorescent lights, the music is a little overwhelming and like most teen stores you’d have to buy several overpriced, cheaply made items to even begin to cover you up-- even if you were a size 1) Anyway, I carried on to Jessamyn, “These clothes are what everyone’s been passing over at the goodwill—Barney purple shirt with multi-colored hearts, brown and yellow banana inspired blazers—who would buy this stuff, let alone look good in it and who would pay this for it? And there’s no organization, it’s a maze of groupings, some by color, some by style –you can’t find anything specific, which is probably the point.” I did end up buying her a shirt there for Christmas, an Asian style turquoise blue that was really pretty. My brother’s girlfriend worked for Urban Outfitters at the time and said many of their clothes were the exact same item as Forever 21, but twice the price! Over the last few months, I’ve gone there several times and have to admit that they have some cute things, esp. if they bring back all your 80’s memories and you call them vintage and you don’t look at the price or size. I did discover in my wanderings the shelves of cami’s that are only $3 and bought one for Peace. Jessamyn bought a pair of long shorts made of brown plaid , which look super cute, but we do have to tease her about.
Anyway, today I have to say, I love Forever 21. And that is because, at 4 this afternoon , Jessamyn came to the end of her search for the perfect pair of jeans. A search which we thought had ended when I found some on clearance at Wal-mart, only to have them shrink. A search that hung over our heads on shop-till you drop day with our cousins in Colorado, a search which lead us to 2 malls today, 7 stores, some sugar and caffeine and about 17 try-ons. If skinny jeans (what we used to call straight leg) are in style again—where are they? The main problem is that her legs are long and she needs long jeans. We did find that JC Penney’s and Kohl's have long lengths, but not in that style. We had to pick through every pair of jeans at Forever and they were in 3 different and unexpected places and they only went to size 7 and they aren’t quite perfect and they cost more than I’ve ever paid for kid jeans—But the search is over and hopefully she can get a lot of wear out of them if she doesn’t grow any taller. Now we can stay out of the mall and recuperate before the next time someone needs to search for the perfect jeans, or worse, bathing suit.
Comments
Jun. 25, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Rebeca
When Poppy is a teenager, will you take her shopping? I don't think I could handle that!
Jun. 26, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Shawna Wilnechenko
Too funny, I am so glad I have a boy!
Jun. 28, 2007 - Love your Post
Posted by Anonymous
This was so funny the way you wrote this. I can already relate:)
By the way the jeans did look fabulous!
Love ya!
