well im sorry that im new here

Gilly Hicks

its really true.
my mall has one now
and i just went in, in my mall its like a maze.
one little room attaches to another and
yes there is a bra library.
the biggest room (HUGE) is stocked
floor to ceiling with bras...no lie
no guys are allowed in the store ive heard
ive never tried going in with a guy though
but the dressing rooms have books
with like naked guys and stuff
there is a day bed in each and a dresser
with all different size bras in it for you to use when you try
on clothes...i dont get why...

Guys are allowed in, it's just a little awkward for them. Similar to VS.

How could you deny a gender entrance into a store...

Guys are allowed in, just not in the changing room area for obvious reasons.

that would be retarded if u couldnt step foot in the store.

the chest in the dressing rooms with different bras is for when you are trying on bras and need a different size or style. its pretty obvious why its there.

it is
realllllly
annoying when
you type like
this.

day beds in the dressing rooms? r u serious?

they're over-sized comfy benches, not really big enough to be beds. or to be confused with beds

I saw the store billboard at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, TX... I didnt have time to take a pic though... will next time I am there.

The Shops at Willowbend is scheduled to open in June.

hmmmm by looking at the inside i dont see that happening

thats interesting... my SM (who is transfering from here to Northpark) said its opening in June... it may be pushed back to July? what does it look like is going on inside Abercrombie92006?

its like, still under contruction, it didnt look like the store is finished yet.... like, still "bare bones" lol, but who knows...

Good news for those in Michigan...the Gilly Hicks in Partridge Creek is suppose to open sometime in 2009. I still think this is an odd location, as it's a very small mall and outdoors in MI, and it's similar to our mall and we hardly do any business. Oh well, I shouldn't complain!

The original announcement said 7 stores, but only listed 5 locations. FYI, there is one opening at the Pallisades Center Mall in West Nyack, NY. Up untill recently (well, 3 weeks "recent"), it appeared it would open before Thanksgiving; now its hard to tell. The walls around the newly remodeled VS store came down yesterday, but the store is still empty of fixtures and merch. The GH store location looks to be about 2000-2500 sq. ft.

^^ How can they be 2000-2500 sq ft that's the size of a shoe box, all of the current GH are more than 10000, i think the biggest is 12000 sqft

Yay, another Palisader! How does the VS look? The way they do business it must be amazing. The Gilly though, is interesting being it never made it to the website. I wonder where the other forgotten ones are?

To give a quick and dirty educated guess, It seems to be about the same size as our A&F, which runs a little bit on the small side. I wouldn't say it's bigger than a tier two, probably a T3. Both the Gilly and the A&F have wedge-shaped plots, so it'll be interesting to see how they plan this.

^ k that's closer to 7000-8000 sf then.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, life has been too busy. The new store looks to be about 1/3 larger than the previous size. The new space has all been devoted to the "Pink" branding, and is over the top in my opininon. The rest of the store is the "new" store look, so it only took 6 years to reach this location, lol!