Pull and Bear

For the most part, I wouldn’t be the biggest fan of most of their clothes. Everything has the feeling of trying to be very «in», but comes off as false. They have good basics, but it’s possible to find basically those same pieces in H&M or even Penney’s for a lower price. However, I’m always pulled to the sale section at the back. A lot of the items seem impossibly tiny or just thoroughly unflattering, but there are some winners on the sale rack! Just the other day I found a great casual striped t-​shirt dress for 15 euro. At the counter, they have adorable and well priced (6.99) travel-​size perfume vials. So those were two gold tickets. Otherwise, overpriced casuals and «trendy» items are not a draw for me.

When I have seen something that I really like on one of my friends and asked where they got it from, ‘Pull and Bear’ has frequently been the response. This leaves me intensely perplexed as to why in that case every time I have been into the store I feel exceptionally indifferent by the items that lay before me.
My friends who I have seen wearing Pull and Bear items are generally young people who choose to dress casually, rejecting stereotypes and wanting to feel comfortable in their clothes. This would infer that the store too to which they buy clothes from would represent the same ethos but I have seen nothing to support this in the good few times I have been inside.
I have seen nothing to warrant tag-​lines such as ‘bringing together international trends’, nor ‘mixing trends with street and club fashion influences and reinterpreting the style to create comfortable, easy-​to-​wear garments at unbeatable prices.’ This proffered philosophy, in my candid opinion, is fictitious. Having visited the store up to ten times by now, each time trying to bestow it with yet another chance and prove my budding negative opinions wrong, it once more fails to impress. Surely nothing that is so consistently disappointing over an elongated period of time, through the different seasons can be deemed as praiseworthy.
Despite my best intentions I have thus been left with no lingering energy to fight this shop’s corner any longer and can only conclude it to be what I have truthfully observed — a lackluster store with humdrum designs on display.

Pull and Bear is great for casual stuff. It’s very skate-​boardy and pretty young fashion but they are good for t-​shirts, jeans, hoodies and other comfy clothes. They’re also well priced, they’re on the cheap side so feels like you could just splurge out and get them.
A special should out to their jeans too, they’re really long which is great and they’re about € 30. Thank goodness the days of paying a fortune for jeans is gone. Pull and Bear, good for a look.