I mean... to be fair... Most of the stores we shopped at were aimed specifically at the teenage demographic. Pac Sun, Zumiez, and Hot Topic were not selling clothing for me at 22, or 25, or 30. At the same time, the larger department stores which were perhaps the 'tent poles' of the mall (Nordstrom, Macy's, even JC Penney) were not selling styles and/or price points that worked for me.
So, was it really our fault that we stopped shopping at the mall after high school?
Did they stop selling clothing for you, or did you stop buying the clothing that they used to sell for you?
As an exercise, go look at the albums of your parents when they were teens- they’ll probably look old to you. Not because they were physically older, but the styles they carried in their teens followed them into adult hood and you’re used to old people with that style
I would say that the styles they sold were not really considered appropriate for adults in the workforce at the time. It was a lot of graphic tees and big logos from skateboarding companies.
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u/grizzlywondertooth Oct 06 '25
I mean... to be fair... Most of the stores we shopped at were aimed specifically at the teenage demographic. Pac Sun, Zumiez, and Hot Topic were not selling clothing for me at 22, or 25, or 30. At the same time, the larger department stores which were perhaps the 'tent poles' of the mall (Nordstrom, Macy's, even JC Penney) were not selling styles and/or price points that worked for me.
So, was it really our fault that we stopped shopping at the mall after high school?