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Q: Has Anyone Been to American Apparel yet?
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lifeliberty
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Posted 5 years ago # -
lifeliberty
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everytime I pass by there seems to be no one in there.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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The Short North Location (High & Fifth) is their only location in Columbus.
And I agree that they're expensive (due to all of their clothes being made in the USA), and almost all of their gear is plain solid colors, but oh what a variety of colors you can find. If you need a hoodie or shorts or tshirt or tube socks in a very specific solid color, I'd say this would be the place you'd find it.
I've not bought much there, but what I have bought (and tried on) has been very well fitted. Not your standard one-size-fits-all t-shirts and whatnot, if you know what I mean.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Anne
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Nice for screen printing. And it is cheaper to get the clothes, screenprinting through http://www.skreened.com :)
Posted 5 years ago # -
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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Check out Take Two if you're a bargain shopper. Sure, it's a consignment shop...but it's an AMAZING one in quality of clothes, and they were just having a moving sale (moving by Waldo's I think) and had like 50% off everything.
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timothyb
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lifeliberty wrote Their ads on the back of the "alive!" are making me want to go shopping. what's the price range? i think there is one next to the high five.
When I visit family in NJ , I drive up to the outlet mall in NY where AMerican Aparrel has a store there. The prices are more reasonable. Yes, you basically are paying higher prices for good wages and non-sweatshop labor and good quality clothing, but at some point, they need to open more factories and lower their prices a little.
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beany123
Clintonville
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There was a bit on 20/20 and Dateline in the summer about the CEO, Dov Charney. Apparently he is a smarmy pig and had several workers suing him for harassment. He argues that he uses sex to sell his product (look at any of their ads for confirmation of this) and that is to be expected when you sign on to work there. Ah, a real charmer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/
Posted 5 years ago # -
Ndcent
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beany123 wrote There was a bit on 20/20 and Dateline in the summer about the CEO, Dov Charney. Apparently he is a smarmy pig and had several workers suing him for harassment. He argues that he uses sex to sell his product (look at any of their ads for confirmation of this) and that is to be expected when you sign on to work there. Ah, a real charmer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/
Ahh yeah, I'd forgotten all about that! The show sure did make him out to be an asshole.
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beany123
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Ndcent wrote
beany123 wrote There was a bit on 20/20 and Dateline in the summer about the CEO, Dov Charney. Apparently he is a smarmy pig and had several workers suing him for harassment. He argues that he uses sex to sell his product (look at any of their ads for confirmation of this) and that is to be expected when you sign on to work there. Ah, a real charmer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/
Ahh yeah, I'd forgotten all about that! The show sure did make him out to be an asshole.
Yep, probably exaggerated by the media (and his big ego!). Apparently he also would masturbate while being interviewed for Jane magazine (with the interviewer;s consent of course!) ;)
Posted 5 years ago # -
scottlitch
Southwest Hilltop, Columbus
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I think the shirts fit well and come in many more colors than I've found elsewhere. Great place for basics.
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dru
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beany123 wrote There was a bit on 20/20 and Dateline in the summer about the CEO, Dov Charney. Apparently he is a smarmy pig and had several workers suing him for harassment. He argues that he uses sex to sell his product (look at any of their ads for confirmation of this) and that is to be expected when you sign on to work there. Ah, a real charmer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/
I remember seeing the ABC story and thinking that he seemed to have read Bennetton's PR handbook. Controversy adds another few $ to the sale.
But back to the original post, I have a few t's and polo shirts from here, and they've held up well in the wash.
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katieb
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beany123 wrote There was a bit on 20/20 and Dateline in the summer about the CEO, Dov Charney. Apparently he is a smarmy pig and had several workers suing him for harassment. He argues that he uses sex to sell his product (look at any of their ads for confirmation of this) and that is to be expected when you sign on to work there. Ah, a real charmer...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14082498/
I saw that also and I was like, cool, I want to go there and check it out. there's some cool stuff, but anything over $1 is pretty much out of my price range right now. so...
haha
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DawonHawkins
Sixty Spring (Downtown Columbus)
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gross
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Alexandra477
Short North
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Their stuff runs really small.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I thought everywhere else just runs really big? :lol:
Posted 5 years ago # -
Daz
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Walker wrote I thought everywhere else just runs really big? :lol:
Absolutely true.
Oh.. and for some reason, I can't fit into anything American Apparel sells. My shoulders are too broad.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Walker
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Columbus Alive wrote Window Shopping - Sweats without sweatshops
by David S. Lewis
May 24th, 2007
American Apparel opened its Columbus store, the first in Ohio, in November 2005. Since then, the company has opened stores in Cleveland and Cincinnati to sell their selection of American-made productsâ€â€largely basics like T-shirts, underwear, sweatshirts, hoodies, swimwear and underwear, with denim jeans a recent addition.
What makes them different from the myriad other clothing companies offering similar fashions? I asked Trinity Shi, manager of the Columbus location, about the "vertically integrated" concept behind the chain.
"The simple definition is that everything is under one roof, from concept to cutting to production and shipping," she explained.
According to the company's mission statement, that's what allows them to keep up with other clothing manufacturers while paying the highest wages in the industry.
Posted 5 years ago # -
ginger
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Their stuff runs small, and although a few people mentioned high quality, most people i know have had the stuff fall apart very quickly (esp. for the price). I have a couple of shirts from different events and they have either a) shrunk in the wash, b) developed holes at the seams and elsewhere, c) unraveled.
dov cheney is an ass. pick up clamor magazine's (r.i.p.) last issue to read some interesting stuff about him. he supposedly won't hire women with short hair since it's "unnatural." many of the stores have 1970s Hustlers and Penthouse photos hanging on the walls.
while it is "sweatshop free" that was an after-thought for the marketing. and, the employees may not be paid $5/hour, but they have to fight for things like overtime/overtime pay, insurance/benefits, and there's apparently some safety issues.
for sweatshop free t-shirts, try sweatx, no sweat apparel, kumba, or check out
UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) which has a list of union suppliers at http://www.uniteunion.org/unionlabel/promo.cfm.
Posted 4 years ago #
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