Now, I am not one to give very blatant opinions, but I saw this article by Alex and I suddenly had a passion to blog about it. In the town I live in, there is only one mall and this mall has a nice variety of teenage clothing stores. Since everyone is hating on Hollister, I’ll talk about it.

I’ll be honest, I’m intimated by these stores. I see all the other girls wearing Hollister, American Eagle, etc. so I’m compelled to buy it too (yeah, yeah, teen peer pressure). The atmosphere is usually loud upbeat music and clothes, clothes, clothes. You don’t even know where to begin. I’m always confused.

Now, I have a regular body type. I’m not too fat and I’m not too skinny. I’m average. But when I go into Hollister, I have to look for shirts that are large or extra large. The medium sizes are for teeny tiny girls with absolutely nothing on them. Nothing can fit around the chest area or the waist. It’s meant for tiny girls.

If I am an average girl’s size, the normal, healthy size for any teenager girl, why do I have to make myself wear large or extra large? And to make matters worse, it is hard to find a large or extra large in these stores. I’m at a loss and I feel horrible when I have to try them on. Something inside my head tells me, “Are you really an extra large?”

This isn’t a problem in other stores. I go into Target or something and voila, I’m a small to a medium. Why did I have to go through that then? Shouldn’t stores tailor to the average, healthy sized girls?

I thought the anorexic skinny chick trend was over. When will the healthy normal chick trend begin?!