No name on the building - so unless you knew the pseudo-hacienda type place was said Hollistr you'd not know how to find it. 
You have to Queue to get in. WTF is that all about? 
Once in said shop/hacienda place it is very dark. with artistically illuminated items which are stapled to the ceiling and impossible to find on a rail. So dark you can't tell whether your hoodie is pink or orange.
There are strategically placed sofas/armchairs with exhausted and confused middle aged people slumped in them.
Their sizing is just bizarre. DD is 14 and 5 foot nothing and usually finds a size 6 is loose on her (she is in fact skinny). The Holister size Small was skimpy on her. Who the bloody hell wears their size Extra Small?
It confused the fuck out of me from start to finish.
AIBU?
to be very confused by Hollister and think it is a Very Odd Place?
TheYuleLogLady · 29/12/2010 17:19
I've never been on the inside, but I am furious that DD spent £40 on a hoodie, that will only last her 6 months!! 'Oh, but it was in the sale and was half price!' Oh right, that makes it perfectly acceptable then!
DH says I'm being unreasonable and it was her Christmas money to spend on what she likes, but £40!! It's not even that special tbh!
Hmm, me thinks post number two was written for me! 
I am 39.11 and love Hollister 
My family think I am an eternal child.
Not so much the clothes I like really but I like the smell and the boys men that stand outside dressed as lifeguards....
DD is 11yrs and fits their xs size, they are very small. I bought a shirt from there though and a M was plenty big enough. I usually buy a 12 top as a rule.
@ the shirt being a survival badge!!!!
Am I the only one who likes Hollister? I had better get my coat quick
*leaves the room and puffs Hollister scent around
Do they have the half naked male staff in UK stores?
It's just a budget version of Abercrombie and fitch, quality isn't bad, A + F is better.
DD is a size 10-12 and has to have large.
The mens sizes are normal, DH is a medium and Hollister medium fits him.
It's actually fairly annoying that they have arrived over here, you used to only be able to get the stuff in America, everyone and his dog seems to wear A+f/Hollister t-shirts now, I prefer Aeropostale, you can;t get it here and it's half the price, plus a ladies large fits me.
I hate that shop with a passion. It isn@t the clothes, it@s the way they treat their staff and customers, I don@t know how they get away with it!
Their customer services is terrible, a zip on a pair of DD's jeans broke, they would only give me the sale price as I didn't have a receipt, they wouldn't let me have a replacement pair. There is no number for complaints, only an email, where you get a standard "We are sorry, but don't give a sh*t"
Our local store refused to allow a worker to wear a poppy, as "it didn't fit in with uniform".
Poppy sellers were not allowed to stand outside their shop
This got huge local then national media cover.
They have also been taken to a tribunal, a young girl was given a job, at the interview they didn't know she had a prothetic[sp] arm. When she turned up for work, she was origionally told to cover it up! The next day she was then moved to store room duties!!
She was the only one who wasnt allowed on the shop floor. She won her case for discrimination.
Isn't it all just a bunch of smoke and mirrors to disguise the fact that they want £30 for a cotton vest?
Or £40 if it has advertising a logo on the front.
Madness.
Abercrombie and Fitch is just the same. Jack Wills is the same but more insidious (apparently instead of traditional advertising they pay cool older teenagers to be "brand ambassadors" )
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