I'm 58, and I have to say I'm still waiting for the negatives. I entered menopause with only a few skipped periods/heavy periods, no hot flashes or other symptoms (I occasionally get sweaty at the brow line). My hair doesn't have quite enough grey to use permanent dye, I use a Demi permanent box dye (if I were rich I would be highlightin…
I'm 58, and I have to say I'm still waiting for the negatives. I entered menopause with only a few skipped periods/heavy periods, no hot flashes or other symptoms (I occasionally get sweaty at the brow line). My hair doesn't have quite enough grey to use permanent dye, I use a Demi permanent box dye (if I were rich I would be highlighting as well). My skin is oily, so I am still breaking out regularly (again, I am 58!) but am fairly unwrinkled.
Is it weird to say I never liked attention on me, so if I'm receiving less attention out in the world I haven't noticed/don't care? The only time it annoys me is when I'm not greeted when I enter a retail store: I'm in retail, you say hello to someone when they come in the door. A girlfriend and I walked into a Brandy Melville store to check it out in advance of my young adult daughter coming to visit and we were flat out ignored by the five trendy young adults who worked there. The store was empty, they were talking to each other and couldn't be bothered. We were clearly not shopping for ourselves (Brandy Melville is a teen store that carries ONE SIZE in every item), were clearly there to shop for daughters and they couldn't acknowledge us. That bothered me. You don't want my money? Fine. (Turns out my daughter had tried on their clothes in the past and don't work for her).
I'm too old to have shopped in Abercrombie's heyday, but I think it was part of their deal that the associates were supposed to be too cool to acknowledge you, or something? This was like that. But you'd think they would pay attention to a mom, considering we are the ones with presumably larger open to buy on our credit cards, lol.
Pretty sure Brandy Melville is one of the circles of hell. My 12-year-old shops there, but does acknowledge the strangeness of the one-size policy. Given that the one size is usually in the 0-4 range, it feels almost as if body-shaming/bullying is the marketing plan.
I remember reading about Brandy Melville a few years ago. I forget who the parent company is, but there was a story somewhere (NYT?) about how they were encouraging local LA teens to post on their Instagram and tag them and maybe then they would get jobs there? IDK.
Anyway, I think Nordstrom carried them in their Juniors area a few years ago, but I had never seen an actual store, so I went in.
I'm 58, and I have to say I'm still waiting for the negatives. I entered menopause with only a few skipped periods/heavy periods, no hot flashes or other symptoms (I occasionally get sweaty at the brow line). My hair doesn't have quite enough grey to use permanent dye, I use a Demi permanent box dye (if I were rich I would be highlighting as well). My skin is oily, so I am still breaking out regularly (again, I am 58!) but am fairly unwrinkled.
Is it weird to say I never liked attention on me, so if I'm receiving less attention out in the world I haven't noticed/don't care? The only time it annoys me is when I'm not greeted when I enter a retail store: I'm in retail, you say hello to someone when they come in the door. A girlfriend and I walked into a Brandy Melville store to check it out in advance of my young adult daughter coming to visit and we were flat out ignored by the five trendy young adults who worked there. The store was empty, they were talking to each other and couldn't be bothered. We were clearly not shopping for ourselves (Brandy Melville is a teen store that carries ONE SIZE in every item), were clearly there to shop for daughters and they couldn't acknowledge us. That bothered me. You don't want my money? Fine. (Turns out my daughter had tried on their clothes in the past and don't work for her).
Love this! Except the shitty ignoring thing.
I'm too old to have shopped in Abercrombie's heyday, but I think it was part of their deal that the associates were supposed to be too cool to acknowledge you, or something? This was like that. But you'd think they would pay attention to a mom, considering we are the ones with presumably larger open to buy on our credit cards, lol.
Pretty sure Brandy Melville is one of the circles of hell. My 12-year-old shops there, but does acknowledge the strangeness of the one-size policy. Given that the one size is usually in the 0-4 range, it feels almost as if body-shaming/bullying is the marketing plan.
OK I did NOT know about this one size policy and I now I want to do a whole story about this...
Check out Pac-sun as well
One size 00-4 range
I remember reading about Brandy Melville a few years ago. I forget who the parent company is, but there was a story somewhere (NYT?) about how they were encouraging local LA teens to post on their Instagram and tag them and maybe then they would get jobs there? IDK.
Anyway, I think Nordstrom carried them in their Juniors area a few years ago, but I had never seen an actual store, so I went in.
If they ignore me, they don’t deserve my money-and I’m not afraid to contact their corporate hq.