C&A

A European clothes store chain whose name might easily be taken to mean Cheap & Affordable. Their stuff may look trendy, and it often feels steal for the price, but it tends to be sewn quite poorly so that you have to pick your piece carefully (or be willing to fix it yourself). Makes you nearly feel sorry for the third-world grunts who must have produced it for pennies.

You don’t want your friends to know you shop at C&A, but if your hand’s lucky, you might fool the less savvy into believing that the crap you’re wearing cost two to three times more than it really did.

—That’s some nice jacket you’re wearing.
—Yeah, thanks. (Thinking: If you only knew how little I paid for it at C&A…)

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