Aeropostale is a affordable quality clothing store that offers nice clothes that are similar to American Eagle, Hollister, and Abercrombie & Fitch. Aeropostale went bankrupt in 2016, closing many stores.
A store normally associated with the prep subculture.
Most of the people that speak badly of it are those who believe that they are above anyone that happens to shop there, which is normally because of the fact that they shop at stores with incredibly expensive clothing. What they don't realize is that shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, AE, Hollister Co., or any other expensive store doesn't automatically make you better than anyone else. In my opinion, a majority of the clothing found in any of those stores is rather ugly and unappealing, but I guess it all depends on personal style. While I'm not one to shop at Aéropostale, I believe it has a much more appealing selection of clothing than a store such as AE.
Apparently not prep, but more of a Prep Lite. (I'd never be able to tell the difference, but whatevs. :))
It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Not exactly my style, but it's got some cute shirts, especially if you're into pastels and glittery cartoon turtles. I'm not, but there's no accounting for taste.
Girl wearing chalk yellow babydoll t-shirt with an abominably cute monkey holding glittery yellow bananas: Guess where I went shopping today?
Clueless guy: ...Hot Topic?
"I Love My Daddy"
My daughters wear these shirts and when I asked them what it means they have no idea. As their father I thought it important that I should understand what it means since they wear so many of these shirts so I looked it up online and found no meaningful definition. Since so many people wear these clothes and they look nice the word should have a meaningful definition so I've created one. From now on, Aéropostale now means "I Love My Daddy".