What I Would’ve Been Like If I Had Shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch Instead of Hot Topic in the Nineties
The New Yorker · 27 Oct 2026

What I Would’ve Been Like If I Had Shopped at Abercrombie & Fitch Instead of Hot Topic in the Nineties

My role model would’ve been Topanga instead of Daria. I would flirt by making eye contact and smiling instead of by staring off into the distance and scowling. I would’ve gone on fun high-school dates with someone who was popular in an approachable way, instead of pining after the vampire Lestat (fictional) and insisting that boys my age were way too immature and mortal.


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