I don't think I've ever bought anything full-price from them. Always Last Chance, sales, and coupons. And there's definitely a calculus at work; some things don't ever hit the "worth it" price for me even on sale (that vest and jacket were in that category; by the time the price was low enough my size was gone). Occasionally I regret that when something sells out and never appears on eBay, but that's the chance I take in being cheap.
I do feel like their quality has slipped the last few years. I'm finding more button and hook issues and a lot of things that used to come lined don't come that way anymore. And at some point they changed their fit models; I can still wear a size 12 thing from a decade ago, but for the past few years I've pretty much had to get an 18 in anything new. It's a lot harder to justify the full prices when the quality doesn't seem as good.
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Date: 2012-08-10 01:01 pm (UTC)I do feel like their quality has slipped the last few years. I'm finding more button and hook issues and a lot of things that used to come lined don't come that way anymore. And at some point they changed their fit models; I can still wear a size 12 thing from a decade ago, but for the past few years I've pretty much had to get an 18 in anything new. It's a lot harder to justify the full prices when the quality doesn't seem as good.