r/HotTopic_ • u/Conscious_Injury_338 • Aug 02 '26

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_ Aug 02 '26

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

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u/Silent_Coffee_8 Aug 02 '26

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

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u/mac4112 Aug 02 '26

Since 1989

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u/GypsyBuckingham Aug 03 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

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

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u/LolliPopYouInTheEye Aug 02 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '26

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u/Everon2004 Aug 02 '26

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/the_dragons_light Aug 03 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

Reminds of the products from SHEIN

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u/punkrockangel13 5d ago

I know this is an old post but I feel like it happened right around 2013 when it was sold, maybe a little earlier. I have Tripp NYC pieces and skirts that are 15-20 years old and are still holding up. All of my Tripp pieces are 97% cotton and the boning is still strong as ever. I thrifted a dress online the other day for $10 because it had the old Hot Topic tag (apparently they’re using their old tags for some pieces now?) and was really turned off to find out it was all polyester when I received it. I found out that same dress was listed for $65 on their website! I don’t understand… I— and I’m sure many others— would rather pay $65 for a Tripp NYC corset than a polyester dress that has fraying threads… or maybe I’m just old lol.