Ding ding ding ding!!! All of these places wringing their hands over Amazon like it’s Amazon’s fault that every fucking store in the mall caters to size 10 or smaller, and the average woman is a size 14/16. Sorry, retail world - there just aren’t enough 16-year-olds to keep all of you afloat. And the rest of us, who…

Honestly, the easiest thing to do is pick a couple of things you like, and have them remade over and over at a tailor. Everything fits, you order a new one when you need it, and then that’s that.

I’m the person who label-whores my way through Goodwill, looking out for the new stuff that still has tags. So thank you!

“Yes, you can order it & return it if it isn’t right. However, that is a lot more hassle than schlepping to a B&M location and making sire something fits right before spending money on it.”

I don’t think this is the end of malls. I think its just the end of an era of certain kinds of clothes retailers. I find things in stores with more specialized branding. Not that I’m fashionable - I’m talking Banana Republic here. But there stuff is well selected, all matches with itself, and is somewhat on trend…

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Yeah, that’s an important point too. I’m Black and Latina and HATE shopping in malls and at stores because I’m constantly either followed around like I’m going to steal something or completely ignored and not asked if I need help as though I can’t afford to buy anything. The odd thing is that in high-end stores like…

More than one of these looked like stripper shoes. I am too old to be a bridesmaid and too old to be swinging around a pole. I also was not excited to wear a Burgundy dress with silver shoes, but such is life.

I want to say your fear is no longer needed, not because they are getting better but because staff keeps getting cut back. I once walked into a Macy’s and didn’t even realize it wasn’t open yet (ok, it was like 10 mins early on a Sunday morning). The lack of workers was not out of place and having to hunt down an open…

The only problem is that stores have been scaling back their inventories in store. Saw a shirt I liked online, wanted to try it on first (as you would), went to two different stores, no one had it in the size/color.

I buy almost all of my clothing online. Capri leggings from Target and modern tunic tops from either Garnet Hill or Anthropolgie (on sale), shoes from Zappos in the brands I pretty much know will fit. If I want my shopping in person fix, I hit up Goodwill and sometimes TJMaxx. At this point I’m not interested in…

I see both sides of this. I buy a lot of my clothing online, and I end up returning a lot of it, because even though I am pretty aware of the shapes that fit me, they don’t always look the same when shipped. On the other hand, I work at physical retail location, and the number of women who I have to send to online…

I hate going into stores. I’m a Black woman who’s known all of her life that retailers are going to follow me from the moment I walk through the doors. I also have a curvy shape that blossomed at 15 and the 90s weren’t great for people who looked like me. Trying on clothes sucked back in the day. It was always a huge…

I ordered five pairs of shoes on Amazon to go with a bridesmaid’s dress, because I was too busy to go shopping. and before I did I had to tell my husband- I am going to need your support with returning these! Otherwise we’re going to have five pairs of *silver* strappy heels, god help us.

Major DITTO. It’s obviously terrible that retail workers are losing their jobs, but another skinny-ass store that never acknowledged larger girls exist bites the dust? Mm.

Of all the things you can by online. clothing to me, is one you really need to try on in person. Yes, you can order it & return it if it isn’t right. However, that is a lot more hassle than schlepping to a B&M location and making sire something fits right before spending money on it. I imagine a good amount of online…

I was never thin enough for any of the many stores/chains that are closing now. Schadenfreude out the wazoo right now.

...or maybe, and this is a *radical* idea (takes a hit, passes it) this Pope, an unusually intelligent and compassionate leader -in a time when most of our leaders are complete fools- should be taken seriously. incredibly seriously. i’m sure he did not draw the comparison lightly.

Well the first instance of concentration camps being used in fairly modern history was in the US when Native Americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps (reservations) as a method of extermination and control. Concentration camps were also used during the civil war and were used by the British during…

What should we call Gaza?