High Street stores you hate

[insert-gear]

Pick one store that you would like to rid the world of. Do you think H n M clothes look like Fame on acid? Do you think River Island just do too damn many diamantes or do you hate Topshop because it's created an army of alternative clones?

My vote goes for Jane Norman. Absolutely despise their cheap materials, tacky patterns awful shimmery diamondy stuff.

You?

[aloevera]

Top Shop out!! The store just annoys me so much, due to the fact I NEVER see ANYTHING that suits me. In the past 6 years Ive bought one item of clothing there!

[insert-gear]

I used to be the same, but now I buy quite a few bits in there because my best friend works there so its a nice 25% discount. Makes ya look a bit harder haha. But I find some of their pieces are a bit "alternative for the sake of being alternative"

[hunnybee]

I have to agree with Jane Norman..ultra cac

[bruzz]

Also Jane Norman. everything just looks cheap and sorta cast off lookalikes from other high street shops. Have not been in there in an age!!!

[That_Guy]

Topman. Great clothes but they're just ridiculously expensive. So many times I've bought something in there and then seen a similar item of clothing cheaper in River Island or H&M

[xzanti]

I used to love Jane Norman but they have the same stuff in there for the past 4 years, literally.. I saw the 'Chinese dress' in there last week in Blanch.. I bought that very same dress in 2005

+1 also for Top Shop, I never find anything nice in there it's all horrible nasty looking sh1te..

Vero Moda is another one gone sh1te.. haven't seen anything decent in there in ages..

Then there's the really sh1te ones like Japan and Motive in the Ilac Centre Christ alive that's some tack

[MizzLolly]

I used to be a massive River Island fan but in recent years it's gone as tacky as hell! I don't enjoy queuing behind an army of pram pushing chavs in belly tops while I prepare to be ripped off for poor, poor quality clothes.

Oddly enough, River Island up North is amaaaazing!

(though the Ilac centre one has piqued my interest, seems to look pretty cool!)

[dublingal80]

jane normal is awful. its the same as it first came out. They really need to update their styles! Yeuck!!

River Island I find very mis-matchy. Again, they have the same stuff. They have the same heavy knitted jumpers every year, and then these awful going out tops that could be nice if they didnt have a weird looking pattern of beads at the neck, shoulder etc.

Topshop I find v hard to find stuff in. The one on grafton st is nice. The one in jervis is hopeless and arnotts one has nice accessories.

Vera moda i just dont get. I know lots of people that have shopped there over the years and every time i go in i just do a u-turn.

oasis, some of their clothes can be ok but they always have the same styles!!! you could ask 5 girls to line up wearing a dress and every time i can pick out the oasis one

[eVeNtInE]

None that I'd really hate tbh apart from maybe American Apparel which seemed to be overpriced for either plain clothes you can get cheaper elsewhere or horrible fluorescent stuff. I've only been in it a few times tho so maybe I just got there at a wrong time....

[DanGlee]

BT2 is full of pretentious gee's! Hate that place...

Top Shop and River Island is the best around, but thats mainly because its the only place I can get clothes or fit me!

I dunno if anybody else has this, but if you like me with a small build the only size that fits is XS and sometime Small, depending on the item of clothing (I only have a 30" waist and weigh 9st, so image my size!)

I have often tried size "small" from other stores and they are just HUGE! They hang off me. If anybody knows "Heroes" in Waterford... its just the biggest load of s**te ever... every small size is probably a medium!

I was never so gutted when Top Man was moved out of Waterford, yet Top Shop stayed... SERIOUSLY, what was all that about??? River Island is OK, but only stock very limited XS items, most of which are much and you wouldn't wear!

Rant over! Bring back Top Man to Waterford!

[eth0_]

Penney's and H&M. Penney's have such terrible clothes compared to Primark, really cheap chavvy stuff on the whole, and of course there's the problem that their clothes don't wash well!

H&M, again, way better selection in their UK stores, most of the clothes in the Irish stores is so plain and boring, and their sizing is really bizarre. Everything they sell seems to run about 2 sizes too small.

[Creamy Goodness]

Originally Posted by eVeNtInE

None that I'd really hate tbh apart from maybe American Apparel which seemed to be overpriced for either plain clothes you can get cheaper elsewhere or horrible fluorescent stuff. I've only been in it a few times tho so maybe I just got there at a wrong time....

they are overpriced compared to most other high street retailers because all their clothes are sweat shop free. well that's how they justify their prices.

tbh i love AA because i love plain hoodies, t-shirts etc. i don't need to pretend that i went to huntington beach in 1992 cause that's just lying and looks fugly to me .

i don't particularly hate any store as you can find small things in each one that when you pick and match between them all it's great.

the only one i'd not really go to is tk maxx, purely because it's also a nightmere to find nice things, granted you do find nice things but i'm a man... i want in and out in the quickest time possible.

[buttercupbee]

What IS it with River Island these days? They have masses of jeans but ALL DARK INDIGO wash! I havent been able to locate a light pair in there for nearly 3 years.

[Novella]

Jane Norman. Without a doubt. Can't stand it. Not too keen on Bershka either.