Gen X Clothing

The fact that I can select from a warehouse of China made bootylicious wares after a dumpling binge is hilarious/​amazing and is easily one of the reasons I love 82^nd and Portland so much. Want a shirt screen printed? Done. Need a tight dress for a night out in China town? Theygotcha. Big hoop earrings for $ 3? Duh. I have a pair of amazing cotton stretch pants that have outlasted any of my others and I got them here for $ 9 two years ago. Service is horrible but, come on, that’s not why you goto Gen X… right? Right. You go for the $ 5 fluorescent green push-​up bras.

Mmmyeah, don’t think I’ll be going back after the experience me and my boyfriend went through last night.
It’s around closing time and I’ve picked every bra, shirt, and sweats I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, the deals are amazing considering a tee-​shirt costs anywhere around 15 to 20 bucks nowadays. A two dollar shirt is all a college student can afford. Anyway, we shop till around closing time and we’re up at the register. I get out my card, ready to pay and the lady with her bra popping out goes, «Oh we don’t except American Express.»
Me:“Really?“
Lady with green see through sweater: «Yeah, sorry.»
My boyfriend pointing at terminal that says American express: «But it says right here you accept it.»
Lady with horrible green sweater that everyone could see her red bra through: «Oh, that’s wrong.» Covers the icon with her finger as though it means something now.
Me: «Well can’t we run to the ATM out in the parking lot?»
Lady with… ugh: «Sorry, we’re closed. The doors are locked.»
My boyfriend:“But, only one of the doors are locked. I mean, there’s an ATM outside.“
Lady: «But we’re CLOSED.»
Needless to say, the ladies aren’t too good at problem solving over there. We ask one more time and they insist that they’re closed and that the doors are locked. For one, if there are three other people with a lot of crap and only the «Enter» doors are locked, then I think that I would’ve had enough time to get some cash from the ATM in the parking lot, walk through the very wide, unlocked «Exit» doors, and wait in line until I could check out. Yeah, I get it, it’s closing time, but you saw me here for two hours picking out my clothes. You couldn’t let me run out fifty feet to buy the clothes I had been picking out for the last two hours? Their little terminal says they accepted American Express, so in the end if they couldn’t accept it than the least they could’ve done is let me pay for it in cash. It’s not my fault that they forgot to cover the American Express icon on the terminal, so why do I have to pay? What kind of freaking service… I mean my goodness! They must’ve really wanted to go home! Well, next day my boyfriend picked up my stuff for me. I hope they aren’t on commission because the pretty hundred dollars I was going to spend there got cut down to less than half. The bras, sweats, and coats there are crappy and cheaply made (all the buttons fell off of one I was trying on, and it was priced thirty bucks? Oi!), if I can’t even get decent service then why am I buying it? Told my boyfriend over the phone to take out the crappy jacket, ugly sweats, and cheap uncomfortable bras and spent forty bucks instead.
So all in all, if you’re going here, don’t expect good service at all. The people are mean, and I’m sure if the manager ever got a complaint, they were just blowing it off. This establishment is more of a «we don’t need your service, so take it or leave it» kind of place. Am I coming back? Probably not. No. Never.

Very poor service!
The guys who make logos & designs in the back of the store are Extremely rude!
They make me wait so much just to get help they were two «not helping»
After they done they trow at me the bag of clothing.
Plus is very ghetto!
Two words to describe this place;
Worse Store!

If you’re looking for high quality clothing and attentive sales people, this is not the place for you. However, if you’re looking for anything out of the ordinary Portland attire, this is the place for you. I found a purple and yellow G Unit t-​shirt for $ 3. What more can you ask for?

There are good deals to be had here. Since we are older (40s) we mostly come here to get thermals since my husband works in a freezer… we can buy them in July if needed here haha.
You really see some cool and fun fashions and trends along with some more plain styles that reflect current fashion. It is kind of fun to look around. Like a cross between a flea market and clothing store.
Staff is preoccupied with themselves, I mean REALLY preoccupied, don’t expect to thanked for your purchase either. hence 2 stars.

where am I, Mexico? Saigon? Is there sweatshop in the back of the place? Oh, i’m on 82^nd and Powell next to food 4 less and this is the craziest most mood altering space complete with bad lighting and asian videos. There is definitely some good halloween costume making to be found in here but then again you might just end up looking like someone on the corner of 82^nd and Powell. I was there to get sweats for the whole family and that it did provide, albeit Fire hazzard seeming materials. Cheap ass clothes, people, and monogramed caps and du rags. What more can you expect? Except maybe a betty boop suitcase in which you can find that next door at XXL!!!

Four stars? Exactly WHY am I giving a cheap, ghetto retail establishment four stars?
Because this place fits my needs for ghetto fab clothing and accessories. Damn girl, it doesn’t get more simple than that!
So you walk in, and are immediately greeted by heinous flourescent lights bouncing off of cheap sheet metal walls, and the smell of fast and cheaply woven clothing. The employees aren’t helpful or friendly at all, and look like they’d rather be anywhere but there. A size 8 ass couldn’t squeeze through the rows of tightly lined up clothing racks.
Buuuuuuuut.
I think it’s pretty sweet that I’ve scored boots there for $ 27 that actually FIT over my gigantic calves. I also love that I can buy basic black scoop neck tee’s for $ 4. Cardigans for $ 10. Those tacky but wonderful door-​knocker gold hoops that’ll probably be tarnished in a month’s time – but who cares? They were only $ 2!
This place is kind of my dirty little fashion secret. I can’t count the times i’ve had women compliment me on said boots, or my accessories, or my custom print shirts i’ve had made there. And every time I tell them where I scored, I have to whisper it as not to shame myself.
It’s like a Ross or Marshalls, but much more ghetto, loud, and tacky. If you have an hour to spare and $ 60, you could LITERALLY walk out with a brand new wardrobe.

I was so excited to see cheap tee’s you can print logos on, I was about to buy as many as I had time to do!!! But the customer service… if you can even CALL it that was not at all apparent. You try to ask for help and the «staff» don’t even know how to answer simple questions let alone acknowledge your presence!

I’m not a big fan of their clothing. Definitely a ghetto place.
I went in to get some t’shirts made, and it was a bit pricey.
I didn’t like that I had to pay a fee for bringing in my own shirt. I paid for the picture and all the lettering that should have been good enough. I would recommend going to a shop that actually focuses more on printing tees if you’re going to do anything more than one shirt.
I will use them again unless I find something out there for cheaper.

I like shopping here when I need a solid color shirt for cheap, with a girly cut… And every now and then I’ll find a cute top or something, even though most of their clothes are meant for prostitutes and/​or strippers… The thing that bothers me though? There’s always one girl putting clothes back that looks like she hates her life. She doesn’t acknowledge you as a customer, she just stomps through and shoves things onto racks… Maybe she only gets paid by how much she gets done, and also when she’s done, she gets to go home… And she gets a bonus for scowling… I don’t know. I just know it’s a very negative atmosphere because of her. And the second thing that really annoys me is seeing an employee’s boobs. Like, should I slip my money into her cleavage when I pay? Most businesses have limits so they don’t make their customers uncomfortable. And I’m most certainly not a prude when I say this… But seriously? This is a place you work at, a little store on 82^nd, not the club. Does your cleavage help sell the product? Probably not. It might sell you, but come on… I just want cheap clothes.

One word: Ghetto.
One more word: Ghetto fabulous.
This place fits right in on 82^nd.

Gen X is thug as hell and awesome. You can get cheap shirts, meshed hats, and diamond encrusted necklaces in shapes of pot leaves and money signs. All the thug wear is pretty humorous. Whenever I go in there, I get good deals and cheap laughs, I approve.

The one staple of this place is their perpetual $ 3 tee shirts. I found plain solid color long sleeve shirts for $ 5 as well. The rest is pretty much the ghetto capital of Portland. What ever hood-​gear you need is found here but it’s no diffrent than any other demographic store (Pac Sun for skaters, Hot Topic for emos ect.)
With that target clientele the staff is younger people who may not see this job as the most important thing in their lives, and ct accordingly. Nontheless, if you are looking for some fly hood-​gear, you will be happy with the place.