I love American Apparel , but .................

[melsy]

a) you have to have "Im ok about my body", days far to often!!

b)when might I be needing these pray tell????? !!!

everything looks so enticing (in a "if I put that on will I look like that", NOT, kind of way)and then you start looking at their pre baby bodys and think argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, quick click on another tab!

Theres something about it all that makes me think back to when I was 16!!!!

[woodenchair]

Those just look wrong!

omg they come in pink too MY EYES!!

[melsy]

ouch!!!

[missmelly]

crikey
it's almost soft porn

[Sunshinemummy]

I read an article about the owner recently and he's not a very pleasant man. Sexual harrassment and claims of exposing himself to workers!

[missmelly]

maybe it was him taking the pics on that shoot?

[LadyRaRa]

yes i think the catalog borders on porn tbh
also found the shop underwhelming

[LaurieFairyCake]

I always wonder why in those shots women look like they're trying to climb the walls

to get away from creepy ass-fixated photographer??????????

[Sunshinemummy]

I love the clothes but it did put me off reading about him.

[southeastastra]

oooh i love it! the shop is fab, really messy and staffed by blokes who look like dancers. dp refuses to enter.

[melsy]

Tis a tad soft porn me thinks, Im sure dh looks at it for kicks, I know he was looking over my shoulder last night!!! Ick ick at the news surrounding the owner , I hadnt read that bit.

I have actually ordered a few bits for my dd's from the site today, mainly some basics. I went into one in USA a while back and like Ladyrara said, was also a bit underwhelmed by it all! May be they have to sex it up a bit, as its all basics and very plain?

[PurlyQueen]

I love the Baby Rib Tank dresses/vest tops- they're long enough to cover your tum, come in lots of bright colours, they never shrink in the wash and if I'm feeling very brave (and unlikely to leave the house), I wear them as a dress.

[PurlyQueen]

Oh - and they're stretchy enough to double up as maternity wear. My vests have sprung back into shape far better than I did .

[Sunshinemummy]

Purlyqueen I have a towelling strapless dress that I used right through my pregnancy and it still fits me perfectly now.

[moonshine]

I think this might be a candidate for the elusive school-run dress, no?

[cerys]

Moonshine - and at that dress

[TheOtherMaryPoppinsDiets]

moonshine!

And here was me thinking American Apparel were kind of on a par with Gap...

[FruitynNutty]

nice

[moonshine]

Surely to God this is just not right

[PortAndLemon]

Oh my dear Lord.

[TheBolter]

I just don't get American Apparel. I don't think I've ever seen anything vaguely inspiring or flattering on that site. The clothes are just random and weird.

[coppola]

oh god and their staff are so amusingly rude. t-shirts are good though and I like their plain baby/kid stuff.

[Yurtgirl]

So what is there to love about American Apparel - cos all of those links show absolutely horrible stuff

No such thing as a fashionable shop here! I have never heard of American Apparel......... It doesnt look like I am missing much

[coppola]

no logos on their stuff, also no sweat shop.

i have a rather fabulous pewter gym bag from there too.

[marenmj]

can't get behind AA as I find the owner beyond skeevy and don't want to line his pockets.

-btw, yes, he is the one taking the catalog photos, and the "models" are not licensed/unioned/represented affairs but are generally taken from his staff

[CarmenSanDiego]

I went into an American Apparel the other day and just couldn't get my head round it at all. There are plain t-shirts and things, but then there's all this insane lycra, metallic leggings and snakeskin plasticky stuff. It's like half the store is Gap and half is Flashdance on 'shrooms.

I thought I was a rather young 30 but God, that shop made me old. Doesn't help that I'm a healthy size 16 either!