American apparel

[Zipporah Schumaker]

A store that sells a bunch of brightly colored [spandex], body suits, leotards, and some other crap that you are [never going] to wear, but [nevertheless] want.

[Agnes]

American Apparel is a popular and trendy US apparel manufacturing [LLC].

It manufactures, wholesales, and retails all of its products, and is popular in mainstream, urban areas such as San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and Portland.

Although slightly more priced than similar retailers, American Apparel produces all of its clothes in the United States, pays their workers a decent [wage] and provides them with healthcare, and utilizes [cruelty free] practices.

[Britney]

An American Based clothing manufacturer that is unfortunately popular with the modern hipster community.
[American Apparel] t-shirts are noticeable better quality and fit than [Wal*Mart] shirts in addition to producing excellent screen printing results. They are [under fire] from people that have never felt how soft and light an American Apparel shirt is and people that do not know how a t-shirt should properly fit. Their t-shirts are worth the price you pay; frugal individuals can find AA t-shirts for under .

[Kit]

A cool/hip clothing store, often serving hipsters in cities, that sells overpriced t-shirts, leggings, and metallic colored leotards.
The [ads] feature [scantily clad] women generally found on the street just before [the photo shoot]. The founder of the company has been a known perv who has been reported for sexual harassment many times.

[Ernesto]

While it is a designated hipster locale with ads that resemble a Terry Richardson shoot, the clothing produced by American Apparel truly is of incredible quality, created by highly economical means (as opposed to the majority of the other popular labels out these days), with far more sturdy pieces than what you often find at other hip hot spots such as Urban Outfitters. They also do not cater soley to smaller sizes, offering sizes as high as 3x, unlike most other popular stores shooting for the teen to mid/late twenties demographic. Recently, theyve also begun a [newsstand] section, wherein they hold various underground literature and art magazines, offering the contributors to these publications international exposure for their work where they otherwise wouldnt be getting it (as American Apparel is one of the only remotely mainstream stores of more than one location carrying these publications currently).
In this case, the old adage, [You get what you pay for], [rings true]. Sure, it may cost a bit more to buy an article of clothing from American Apparel than from Wal*Mart and the like, but if you honestly cannot admit that [American Apparels] clothing is of a far superior quality than those you would find at such other establishments, youre just flat out kidding yourself.