November 21, 2007
American Apparel Arriving in Austin Anydaynow
Austin will move three steps closer to becoming Southern California a real city a place where you can try on those high-waisted hot shorts and shiny tights before buying them with the opening of three new American Apparel locations (two real stores in Austin and an outlet in Round Rock).
The first location will be on the Drag at 2316 Guadalupe, which is good news, because there are few things as vital to co-educational learning as Cotton Spandex Jersey Gloria-V Bodysuits. Perhaps this will help UT transcend its status as a party school and move into the ranks of real universities.
The other location will be at the former site of Factory People on South Congress. In case you're new, Factory People lives with the unicorns now and no longer exists in real life, but was once a magical place full of DJs, $64 t-shirts and skinny jeans.
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Factory People becomes an American Apparel. The circle of life!
Sigh, rip Factorypeople a little bit of London late 70's in Austin. Mods away!
Those poor ugly girls! Somebody feed them!
Cheap, sweatshop free t-shirts with models who look like real people. Fuck. yes.
Crap.
Finally, a reason to lose weight.
Those t-shirts may be cheap but you have to rim the owner if you want one.
Best Onion Article Ever:
14 American Apparel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid
And seriously...American Apparel should really make their sizes a bit bigger...why does a woman's XL only fit up to a size 12? Why are all the models starving and near prepubescent?
Don't deny my rear-end gold lame' leggings, American Apparel! Seriously!
LordEric, there are definitely sweatshops in L.A. Maybe they're not as bad as Malaysia or Vietnam but they're still sweatshops nonethess. Also, Factory People very much still exists, just as this website, in the land of Narwhals (the interweb), altough they no longer have DJs or skinny jeans. But really, the larger issue here is that the deep V will soon replace the polo as the shirt of choice for UT frat boys, and that will be a very rediculous day indeed.
By "with the unicorns" I meant "on the internet." Did anyone even check out the unicorns link? Pretty awesome. Would look great with an AA Satin Charmeuse Night Jacket.
Seriously, I clicked the link of that photo; it's a LAME windbreaker!
OK ok, so it's lame` but that's like not putting that on the last e of my wifes name, whatever, it's still Renee with or without and that jacket (excuse me, windbreaker) is lame..
Actually I thought the unicorn link gay but that's me.
I don't understand what people are upset about. What would you rather have in that space rather than an American Apparel? Another Gap? Something has to occupy that space. I can think of a lot worse companies than American Apparel. They are just selling clothes for god's sake. For those who have issue with this, please tell me what you would choose to put there. It seems to me, that whatever moves into Austin, good or bad, some lame-o is gonna wet himself over it. And why can't frat boys wear these clothes? I like polo shirts and American Apparel shirts, what's the problem? Reynard, you call this the larger issue. Frat boys wearing deep v's is larger an issue than LA sweatshops? Really, the larger issue is that you are a doucheBAG.
I found this new website that gives you the 'most common words' stats for any given website. Thought y'all might be interested.
Austinist's top three are:
1. a
2. douchebag
3. the
I'm camping out waiting for the grand opening right now!
First of all, let's not get started on the whole hipster douchebag/douchebag issue again - there's been quite enough of that. In any case, I thought it was pretty clear that I was being sarcastic about that being the larger issue of the discussion because I hate that AA maintains that bullshit facade. Anyway, there was a time when I did feel like it would suck for frat boys and other such ilk to appropriate hip clothes. But to be honest, I don't give a damn anymore. There will always be something new to replace that which has been made lame by the masses. And of course that's good, because otherwise nothing would change, and we'd all be dressed like cowboys since we live in Texas.
Let's not forget AA's CEO is a world-class perv prone to jerking off in interviews with female journalists:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:dDeI5kaUrAEJ:www.blacktable.com/graham050720.htm+american+apparel+dov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
(Cached link, third result under american apparel Dov Charney; offline as of now ...)
There will always be something new to replace that which has been made lame by the masses.
Reynard...I think you mean Lamé ;)
--misssteak
this is great news for austin.
Actually Rey I believe a douchebag, technically, is a kind of purse one can buy at American Apparel.
People! How can Austin become a world class, high-rise, condo-crammed city designed by the fruits and nuts of our city council if we cannot attract this important demographic of good looking, under-fed, overpaid, west coast aliens? Something has to displace us fat-ass, bbq loving, beer drinking people from everywhere except Texas in Austin or the moviemakers will leave us for Louisiana (where the people are skinny but have fewer teef). Come on! California wouldn't be California without these people, and neither can we! Welcome them to Whole Foods! Open your arms and park their cars! Austin will be (ex.) for it.
Benj, I think that might be the best useage to date.
and you are so very right, missteak, lamé will soon be passé.
You can see nipples(female) on their website and that is cool.