Torrid is a hard one to review for me... I get a lot of my clothes from this store, but mostly online. The local stores tend to only carry 1/3 of what the website carries and they NEVER carry my pant size in store. I'm bottom heavy (TMI I know!!). If you order online do not, let me repeat DO NOT have it shipped to the store for free. Pay the crazy shipping costs or take advantage when they have their free shipping (going on now if you spend over $50). If you ship to the store it will take at least a month to arrive. That's like the minimum!! FOUR WEEKS!!! Sorry I know tons of emphasis but I was so upset by this. I didn't read the fine print when I did this, which is a mistake I'll never make again since it took two months for my order to arrive.
Anyways I came in to make a return yesterday, and I came in straight from my rather bad experience at Lane Bryant. There were two ladies working but only one was in the store when I first came in. She was very nice, didn't hover, asked if she could help and then said to browse around and to come get her if I needed anything... then she left me alone to shop. My mood lifted immediately!! She was a girl close to my size and had helpful information on some shirts I was looking at. Overall I just tend to have a better experience at Torrid. My mom doesn't like shopping here because she says she can never find things age appropriate. However every time she sees me she loves my shirt and wants one. I'm forever telling her oh I got that at Torrid haha. They really heavily advertise they edgy Hot Topic like items (duh they are owned by Hot Topic), but that only makes up about half of their inventory! So don't be discouraged, really give them a shot!!
The only thing about Torrid's in CLT is they are all rather small and cramped and I wish so very much that they were big enough to carry more of their line so I didn't have to online shop Torrid so much. I also wish this Torrid had more of their Intimates. Yesterday there was hardly anything and zero pajamas. I didn't end up getting anything and just returned my items, but I'm always scanning the website looking for stuff. Best thing about Torrid for me is that I can look at an item and generally know whether or not it will fit. They are pretty consistent in their sizing and cut. This is something that Old Navy seriously lacks and Lane Bryant is a crap shoot when it comes to style. Guess this plus size girl will continue online shopping to the best of her ability for now.
However great job Torrid for offering a younger perspective to Lane Bryant, I'm at that awkward stage of "oh I can't wear that I'm too old," and "oh I can't wear that I'm too young." Sigh the struggle is real ladies!! Also great job for having staff that can gauge their customers and know how to handle them and who actually know their products because they wear them!! read more