Shopping in Hampton Roads

As much as I love Hampton Roads I must admit the shopping leaves much to be desired. I came down here, marveled at the size of the area and hear all of these great things about MacArthur Mall. So I'm expecting some of that bourgeois euro-trash stuff and what do I get, Zegna, Hugo Boss?? I'm like, I could have gotten that stuff back home, so what gives?

Pharrell has a chic line called "Billionaires Boys Club" with a signature line of shoes under the "Ice Cream" moniker. You would think that Pharrell being from Virginia Beach he would have a store here, or you could at least purchase the stuff. What you do find is some bootleg illegit merchandise, if anything. Selling the shoes for like $65; they're Reebok they probably cost $50 to make, lol. These are supposed to be like $300 shoes.

Pharrell probably knows that, given the low wages in the area, people couldn't realistically afford them. Which brings me to my next point; people say that the economy can't support high end merchandise, but I can go to Military Circle, a slum mall if I ever saw one, lost in the seventies I mean can you hire a better decorator, and go into C.R.E.A.M. and buy a $500 jacket or an $80 t-shirt, so what gives?

Another store down the street was selling woman's Versace Jeans and overpriced Iceberg. About 15 years removed but they did have it. So if you can sell to kids who aren't working that are hustling to get money for a pair of kicks you can give me what I'm looking for. I don't ask for much; old 90s D&G, Moschino, ugly Prada nobody else would touch with a 10 foot pole, trashy Dior. Yet if I want something cool it's back to urbanwear again, which often looks cool but has some really questionable quality control. For a place with a squeaky clean image I'm always within ear shot of some Ed Hardy or Miskeen.