Growing up in a small, rural Canadian town, the four-hour drives up to Toronto that my parents occasionally treated my sister and me to could only mean one thing: Shopping! Shopping at a 2000s Hollister , more specifically.

Yes, we had a small local mall back home, but it didn’t have any of the good stores that the big-city ones had—and as a early-aughts teen , I was simply desperate to buy my clothes from trendy mall shops like Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, or Hot Topic, all of which our thrilling roadtrips up to Toronto had to offer.

And while Hollister and Abercrombie (both owned by the same company) are currently having a comeback (the brand has been discovered and revived by Gen-Z, and even released a Y2K capsule collection this summer to celebrate its 25

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