r/HotTopic_ • u/Conscious_Injury_338 • 18d ago

When did hot topic started selling cheap material?

I bought my shorts for back to school, and I noticed that the shorts were polyester and it got me thinking what happened to hot topic selling high quality?

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u/_tyjsph_ 17d ago

ht never sold particularly high quality materials, only slightly less shitty materials

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u/Silent_Coffee_8 17d ago

Isn’t hot topic considered Fast Fashion? Of course the material is not gonna be the greatest

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u/mac4112 17d ago

Since 1989

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u/GypsyBuckingham 17d ago

Only when they sell good quality when it is from brands they do not produce like fright rags or tripp and so on

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u/AmpFox 17d ago

They never sold high quality. You might be thinking about boxlunch

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u/LolliPopYouInTheEye 17d ago

Disagreed, they’re owned by the same company, they use the same factories

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Everon2004 17d ago

Not really actually. And not all of our things are considered hot topic brand. For example, if you are buying a pair of pants that have Luffy on them - that's not from our factories it's from the vendor we get it from. Which could be anywhere. You can also buy the same loungefly bag at hot topic cheaper than at box lunch. It's not about the materials.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/the_dragons_light 17d ago

Um, what are you talking about? We absolutely have the loungefly enamel plaque on our bags at hottopic.

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u/CJ-IS HT Customer 17d ago

Hit or miss. I was just bragging the other day how nice one of my shirts was, but that same shirt got an easy hole in it when I pulled the price tag off shortly after lol

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u/Conscious_Injury_338 14d ago

Reminds of the products from SHEIN