Riveted: A Jeans Store

While spending the day in Seattle with my girlfriend we decided to do some shopping and Riveted looked like a pretty cool jean store. Hey, you can never have enough jeans right?
Anyway walking in the store seemed pretty cool, and they had some nice jeans actually. Price-​wise is very fair considering the quality and design of the jeans seemed comparable to other high-​end jeans such as 7, Citizen, Diesel, etc. but not nearly as main-​stream which can be a good or bad thing depending on your fashion style.
Anyway the store is definitely for extremely tall and thin people. I’m not fat, but I’m definitely no twig either. The biggest size I think I saw in the entire store was a 32. Oh and I think every jean in the place was a «skinny» jean. Oh God please let those go out of fashion ASAP!
Anyway, I guess the people who worked in the store could tell my girlfriend and I didn’t fit their mold. So the entire 5 – 10 minutes we were in the store. not a word, smile, or even eye contact for that matter (and we were the only people in the store the entire time).
Anyway they had some nice jeans IMO at decent prices. But I wouldn’t shop here unless you were «cool» enough to shop here, at least that’s the vibe I got.
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So Riveted is one of those stores that has the potential for greatness, but is currently falling below the bar. This is a jeans store with the splattering of t-​shirts, belts, and other do-​dads. They carry some very underground labels and definitely off the cuff designs. Cheap Mondays rock and so does the collection of hard to find April 77. Also, you can’t go wrong with the super soft Splendid t’s. But here is where I have issues.
It appears that they only have one size in each jean. Last time I went in I had a choice of 25, 26, and 31, 32. Um… what happened to the in betweens? I finally found something I loved in a size that was one too small and the girls tried to tell me that the skin peeking out from the top looked fine. Let me tell you something, after a year or two of retail jobs myself people have to be aware of the rule that honesty is the best policy. I don’t want them to say, «Hey, there could always be a diet in your future,» but please don’t tell my Mushroom Top is ok. Also, the guys who work there seem indifferent when you come in and barely give anyone the time of day. I wonder if they have a small elite fan base that is enough to sustain them in what I presume is a highly expensive retail space on 1^st Ave.
All I can say is… work in progress… keep up with the good work on jean purchasing… stock up on more middle of the road sizes… and please work on customer service!

They have a great selection of designer jeans here — from the latest trends to new styles and brands that I haven’t heard of yet. We went during a sale and I got a very cute pair of jeans and a shirt for a great deal! And the owner even delivered the jeans to my work a couple blocks away the next day after they got hemmed. Then now have a loyal shopper!