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| - According to the message broadcast over the loudspeaker system every five minutes or so, this Sears has a "Justin Beiber fashion department." I didn't have the courage to go check it out, so this review is only about the menswear department.
I needed to buy some basic dress shirts and figured Sears was a safe bet. It took me a while to find any in my size (14.5, 33/34) but I left with a set of blue and white shirts. It wasn't until I got home and tried them on that I realized that while the packaging listed the size as 14.5, the shirts themselves were 15.5s, and way too big for me.
Today I went to return them, a totally hassle-free experience. The sales clerk was pleasant and professional. After two trips to the fitting room and trying on seven different shirts I concluded that Sears just wasn't going to have anything that fit my slim, short build; even the "slim cuts", which fit better around the body, had arms that were way too long. I ended up just going to H&M and bought what I needed there, including appropriately skinny but non-hipster ties, which Sears also lacked. I understand that American sizing/cuts are different than European sizing/cuts, but I feel like there's a critical mass of short and/or skinny people that Sears (and other stores where I have this problem, ie The Gap and its subsidiaries) should carry at least a small selection of smaller cuts for adult men.
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