Felicia explores: California Select
American Apparel shills your mom’s old clothes
Fine, we admit it. Even though our tri-blend romper shed its elastic after being washed once, and every 100% cotton tee shrinks like the dollar against every other damn currency in the world, we keep buying stuff from American Apparel.
Standard sizing has never been the vertically integrated manufacturer’s forte- we’ve chalked it up to coked-out technical designers spastically measuring the bony thighs of fit models incorrectly. Now the retailer is threatening to blow off all normal parameters of size and style with their venture into eBay-land:
“Vintage and More” is promised on the AA website, and features the usual cast of non-professional models clad in ironic sundresses or sample gear and gamblin’ granny-meets-M.I.A. shades.
With Cali Select stores currently open in Los Angeles, Berlin, NYC, Calgary and Mexico City, bite-sized vintage is sure to get even more overexposed and spendy than we ever thought possible.
Easy to hate on but impossible to abstain from, American Apparel has already posted some cutesy little numbers that we will shortly be tapping in to PayPal to acquire, and later posting grudgingly fawning feedback.
Most auctions open at $9.99 and virtually none are larger than a Medium. Typical.
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