Old Navy — world’s largest garage sale?
July 31st, 2006I went with my wife to Old Navy over the weekend. I’ve been in the store several times over the past few months, and every time I’m in there looking at clothes, I have one thought:
What a bunch of junk.
All they sell are these ratty old clothes that look like something I’d find in a garage sale. Whatever happened to a nice pair of jeans? The ones they sell look like they’d fall apart after going through the wash a couple of times.
Man, I guess I’m just getting old.
Never fear, good buddy. You can still purchase jeans with so much starch they’ll lean against a wall at SEARS.
Hey, hey, hey. I take offense to that. 97.482% of my clothes are from Old Navy. I love that place.
I HATE THAT PLACE! Crappiest clothes ever made. I buy Cabela’s clearence items. CABELA’S RULZ!!!!
Tim, if you and the Mrs. don’t want the old looking, garage sale-type stuff you need to walk down the mall to NEW Navy. Common mistake.
Just a little tidbit of trivial insight for you: The company (Gap, Inc.) that owns Old Navy owns two other store lines you have heard of (you just read one of the other two), designed to offer three different types or qualities of clothes for different price-ranges. Old Navy is obviously for the low-end, inexpensive “upscale-garage sale” line. Gap is the mid-priced, step up, mid-level, and the third is the way over-priced, higher end Banana Republic. So, it’s all a grand philosophy of sales designed to offer something for everyone…and it seems to be working.
I told you it was trivia.
I’m with Scott, Tony and probably Peter…assuming he’s making fun of middle aged guys wearing jeans from Sears
how can you not like the Old Navy? Saying it’s like a garage sale is like saying that a tv show is like Seinfeld, or a dinner entre tasted like a steak off the grill…garage sales are the greatest, it’s just a pain to try and find them, park illegally and negotiate everything.
I should add that I sometimes wear that Old Navy “garage sale” stuff, too. I like some of their stuff.
I dig the Old Navy. If you buy the somewhat normal stuff it’s a pretty good value. My keans from there last forever and I like the fit.
Plus I find the clearance stuff for real cheap too. Where else do you shop Tim?
I’m thinking Tim spends the most of his hard earned money on the latest in the Cubs clothing line.
I’ve been to Old Navy 3 times. I have never bought anything there- I have always went with someone else. The 2nd time I went, they had a scratch off game piece they were handing out as people walked through the door; I scratched mine off and won some chapstick. I don’t use chapstick, but I considered it a win. I never gave old navy/gap/banana republic and revenue and they gave me a 3 cent chapstick. I am in the green baby! WHOOOA! I stuck it to the big man!
Anyways,
j razz
Yikes, I’m sure my brother, one of the managers of the Old Navy in your city of abode, will be thrilled to hear that.
I find that on the whole, their clothes get crappier and crappier. They’re clothing used to be a bit more preppy and less been-through-the-dryer-97-times. In a recent effort to update my wardrobe (I was given the hint to buy some new clothes….but that’s another story), I have found that retailers as a majority are reverting back to the 1980’s. In my opinion, there is not a piece of clothing from the 80’s that should have survived. I’ve actually seen (gasp!) tight-rolled jeans hanging in several upscale stores!! What good can come from that? Nothing, I tell you. Nothing. Frosted, tight-rolled jeans are proof, yet again, that we live in a fallen world. In addition, I might add, that finding modest clothing for women, is becoming an impossibility. Sure, they’ve lowered hem lines, but it’s tempting to shop for shirts in the men’s department. However….I’m straying from the original topic of Old Navy’s raggle taggle fall line. I can’t wait to see the winter line. Stirrup pants are coming back, I hear. What will Old Navy do with that?
And I totally misspelled “their” in the second sentence…something that always gets on my nerves. Where-oh-where is the EDIT COMMENT button?? My apologies. And Tim…I can’t get the “Change” button to work (when trying to change username), fyi. Thanks.
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Glenna, to change your user name, just delete all cookies from www.timellsworth.com and then when you come back here, it should let you put in your changed info. Go to Tools - Options - Privacy - Cookies.
Southern Girl,
That worked perfectly! Thanks for taking the time to tell me how to fix it.
Reminds me of the day I went into the bank with an “Old Navy” t-shirt on. The elderly bank teller was impressed. “That’s great! I didn’t know you served in the Navy.”
That’s what you call “generation gap”. Guess now we know what side of the gap Tim’s on.
you just don’t get this postmodern thing do you?
huh, “moderns…”
The best pair of jeans I ever bought were from Old Navy. I wore them for almost three years before they started falling apart. I aslo recently purchased an awesome purse (well made) for $3…best deals ever!!
I got my purse from there as well, good stuff.
Was it a man-purse?
Haha, no, I don’t use those “man-purses,” only old-school women’s. (Just kidding, I only use men’s wallets.)
Riiiiiiiiiggggghhhhhhtt, Scott.
You caught me, you caught the Tater. You can take down those road blocks now.