Just so everybody knows, Torrid is tranny mecca because it is a store originally intended for big and tall women with an alt style. Trannies thinks this means them. The store has cut most of its ties with Hot Topic Inc and has a new CEO who wants it to be Forever 21 for fat people instead of figure flattering rockabilly clothes for bigger women. Hot Topic has it's own plus size line now that fits even worse than Torrid but if you want a shapeless tarp you may as well get it there for half the price.
Because of the ease of access to their size range and the nature of customer service, Torrid has a huge problem with men coming into the store and trying on clothes. Full stop.
Sometimes it's just troons playing dress up which is annoying, but sometimes they just want a woman to look at them wearing womens clothes so they can jack off in the food court. A lot of these men are also doing both.
You are not allowed to refuse if a man requests that you stay with him the whole time while he tries on clothes for his sexual gratification, because "We don't judge here. If it's just a man who likes to wear women's underwear who cares? They're asking you to stay with them so they don't feel uncomfortable."
You also HAVE TO let them try on whatever they want or they will have a fit. The women do this as well, and while many of them are sweaty pigs they do not have AM HOLE JUICES flowing from their loins. PEOPLE TRY ON THE LINGERIE THE MOST. Crotchless bodysuits are the most popular. Literally. Some people leave their underwear own when they do this but A LOT DON'T.
When something is tried on in store and soiled or just returned smelling bad, Torrid's official covid policy is to hang it on a rack a few hours and spray it with Lysol.
I got chastised several times for damaging out worn panties.
DO NOT BUY UNDERWEAR FROM TORRID UNLESS IT IS ONLINE AND IN A PLASTIC BAG.
And that just killed completely any inclination to go shopping at Torrid, especially because Forever 21's pretty much Overpriced Walmart/Target in my experience, and 'tranny mecca' sounds about right for what their window displays were like when the malls were open/worth going inside
anyway.
Though on them refusing to let you say no if a man requests that you stay with him the whole time he tries on clothes? That's a sexual harassment suit
waiting to happen. If that's standard policy, go class action.
And the panties thing? That's...impressively unsanitary, like major legal trouble and PR disaster levels the
moment it gets out that somebody got one of the
many things that can be transmitted by used panties. (It's why most normal places? You cannot try on panties and if your bare crotch touches it? You bought it,
no returns.)
But I don't think any of this is going to really save Torrid from its torrid rep, honestly. I mean, it never had a good rep even for those of us who
do have an alt style--which is actually something that I've noticed with troons like Kev. I mean, these being places for the mall alts is something I've found even
men on the alt scene have tended to know. It's like these troons just
suddenly decided to join the alt scene while trooning out, except not really because let's just
stack failure on failure.
I mean, yeah, okay, Kev's doing a damn good job if his goal is to be a fat female
pig, but...I think it's pretty safe to say no alt chick who doesn't have Problems (if not PROBLEMS) wants to be
that. I mean, how many women actually
want to be an entirely-negative misogynistic stereotype full-time? Maybe Kev's as much delusion as cope.
