Imagine walking into a beautiful store filled with merchandise that interests your entire family and is worth considering for purchase. All four of you are in a wonderful mood after spending some awesome family time together at Top Golf. Mom and Dad need a few things (perfume for me, a new shirt for him), but everyone is eager to check everything out. You see the well-made, visually pleasing colors and enticing textures, and just have to touch and ooh and ah over everything! There is a swimsuit that catches your eye (ladies), and you inquire about it. After being helped and making your way to the back of the store to see if your size is available, your 13-year-old daughter, who gets most of her height and weight DNA from her 6'4" tall dad, exclaims, "Mom! Look at this suit!! Isn't it awesome? I love it?!" You look over at it while you are looking at your own "perfect suit" and say, "Wow, yes!!!", as she's about to ask if she can try it on. Just then, the store associate next to you practically shouts so the whole store can hear, "THOSE RUN *VERY* SMALL, JUST FYI!!!" Your daughter's face and shoulders fall, her spirit deflated now, and she puts it back, slowly walking away with her head hung low. What a let down. I checked the rack where she got the suit and looked at the sizes available: 8, 10, 14, 16, 18. Excuse me?!? I tried to get her to come back, saying there were many sizes and the lady didn't know what she was talking about, but my 13-year-old daughter had already heard that she wasn't good enough (read: SMALL ENOUGH) for their suit...for their clothing. It's too bad, too, because, while larger than the average 13-year-old, my daughter is a ladies'/women's 14-16, which I saw on the rack in the suit she loved. It was a one-piece for women, not little girls. Many of the beautiful dresses and tops would have fit her, too, I'm sure. I paid for my perfume, relayed my story to the woman who checked me out, who was very kind, by the way, and my daughter and I left the store while my husband and son continued to shop. We tried a few more stores after that, but none of them had anything we liked. We liked, no, we loved, Tommy Bahama's style and choices. I am still shocked, angry, and extremely disappointed about this treatment of my daughter and will never go back to this store. My husband purchased two shirts, a belt, and shorts. That order could have easily been 4x that with my 15-year-old son (also tall like his dad and in men's sizes), 13-year-old daughter, and me all purchasing things we loved. I don't think I will ever step foot in the Oakbrook Tommy Bahama store again. DO BETTER, Tommy Bahama, Oak Brook. Unless guests ask, please don't comment on what will or won't fit them. This is especially important for girls/young ladies, and probably more so for young ladies shopping with their mothers. Most of us already know and/or can figure out what will fit us and our daughters. If not, we will surely figure it out when we try the clothing on in the privacy of a fitting room. Thank you. read more