Emily G minus 20 years is American Apparel’s target audience
Everybody’s all hatin’ on the American Apparel children’s lamé leggings, but honestly, do you remember being a little kid? I don’t know about you, but at ages 4-6 I would have worn these until my mom pried them off my cold, dead legs.
In fact, I sometimes think my younger self is actually the target audience for many American Apparel products. Here, meet little Emily G:
Well, the only picture I have of myself as a little kid is a baseball card, so my interesting sense of style is not on full display, but note the subtle things: the enormous hat with the brim jauntily turned to the side, the bloused T-shirt.
But in honor of the kids’ lamé leggings looking far more appropriate on 5-year-olds than they do on 19-year-olds, I present a list of some of the American Apparel outfits little Emily G circa T-ball would have worn the hell out of:
Little Erica P had shorts that are so strikingly similar to those black ones, it’s not even funny. I wore them with a cerulean blue sleeveless cotton blouse. Tucked in OR with one of those T-shirt scrunchies.
My sister wore her “shiny” shorts from age 4 to probably 8 because she couldn’t part with them. Luckily she was a small kid so it wasn’t, uh um, weird… My whole family still reminisce about how much she loved those shorts!
I had this wicked hot pink t-shirt with quarter-sized multi-colored rhinestones glued to it with gold glitter puff paint around the collar. AND! Denim shorts with the same plastic-stone-glitter-puff-paint detailing around the pocket openings. I was SO cool.
Hypercolor t-shirt + Reebok pumps = CHICK MAGNET
I think I still have the same leggings in my closet. They’re kept in good condition, and pretty nice to throw away. I can imagine myself with it after taking off my dickies scrubs.
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