Ex-Brandy Melville employee lays bare 'MISERABLE' experience working for trendy fashion brand - revealing she was forced to undergo 'insane' daily outfit checks at AGE 14 to determine if she looked 'PRETTY enough'

A former Brandy Melville employee has lifted the lid on her 'miserable' experience working at the trendy clothing store, describing the 'insane' regulations she was required to follow after landing the job at the tender age of 14.  

Delaney Rinke, 22, chose to speak out against the popular fashion retailer just days after HBO documentary Brandy Hellville & The Cult of Fast Fashion laid bare its heinous underbelly, airing the shocking 'racism' and 'exploitation' many former employees say they suffered while working for the 'fast fashion cult'. 

The California-based content creator detailed how she got hired when she was just a teen after an employee approached while she was in the store and asked to 'take a picture' of her outfit - with the manager of the store then later DMing Delaney and telling her when she could start, despite having not received any paperwork or application from her. 

In a wide-ranging interview with People, Delaney joined the slew of employees who have slammed Brandy Melville as she claimed that her four years spent working at the retail shop were filled with 'insane' daily outfit checks that saw upper management taking photos of the teens that worked there to decide if they 'looked pretty enough to work there.' 

She told the outlet that her journey with the fast fashion shop began when she was just a teen shopping around with her mom. 

'They had asked to take a picture of my outfit and then asked if I was interested in a job. My mom was shopping around at the time, so she didn't see them take a picture, but she didn't think much of it,' she explained. 

In a clip posted to her TikTok account about her experience, she claimed that after the photo was taken, she was told that she could 'start next week' and was advised to 'just follow someone on Instagram.' 

Her manager at the time would send her instructions via Instagram DMs. Delaney claimed that the workers never asked to see any form of identification before she began her job.

'I was really, really young, so I was quite miserable at work,' she told People. 

The 22-year-old claimed that her time at work was mostly spent doing an 'insane' amount of outfit checks. 

'They'd be like, "Okay, cool, everybody, let's get outside." We would line up and wait to take turns taking pictures of our outfits. They would take three photos of every outfit. They would take full-body pictures. 

'Then they would take a close-up of your top and your bottom, and then they would take a close-up of your shoes. 

'Photos had to be very staged and make us look a lot older than we were, which was insane,' she explained.

On her social media account, Delaney noted that at the time, the workers never told her who the photos of the teens were being sent to. 

'They send it to God knows who. They’re not telling you who,' she said. 

It wasn't until the 22-year-old became a visual manager at the shop that she discovered where the snaps were going. 

'Later when I was in management, I found out those pictures were going to corporate. 

'Essentially, the owner of the whole store was giving people strikes of their outfits or [deciding] if they looked pretty enough to work there. When people got to three outfits [strikes] that upper management did not like, their time was done,' she said. 

According to the Shouse Law Group, the legal working age in California is 14 years old, however those under 18 must have a work permit. It's unclear whether or not Delaney had a work permit at the time she worked at Brandy Melville.  

Brandy Melville was founded in the 1980s in Italy and opened its first store in the US in 2009 - and almost immediately, it was a huge success, becoming a style staple amongst teenagers throughout the 2010s.

But as thousands of young girls clamored to get their hands on the trendy and chic clothing, behind the scenes, the workers began telling their stories and claimed that they were subjected to rampant 'discrimination against race, sex, and size.'

The documentary, which was released on April 9 -  lift the lid on how the brand became one of the biggest clothing companies on the globe, while allegedly harboring an extremely 'toxic work culture' unbeknownst to its loyal and growing fanbase.

In particular, the teaser pointed out that the brand used social media campaigns that revolved heavily around 'teenage girls taking photos of each other.'

Another woman claimed that Brandy Melville 'only hired skinny white girls' for its stores, while using people of color in its factories. 

 Back in 2020, a former Brandy Melville employee named Callie went viral on TikTok after she accused the company of being 'fatphobic' and 'racist' in a series of explosive videos.

'My second week on the job, someone comes in and they’re like, "Hi I want to work here,"' she recalled in one of her TikToks.

'And I’m like, "OK, give me your resume and let me show my boss." And she gives me her resume and I go in the back and my boss looks at it for like half a second and she had all this amazing stuff on there and she goes, "What does she look like?"'

She claimed her manager asked her 'what race' the woman was, and after she said she was Asian, she was told to tell the woman that they 'weren't hiring.'

She also alleged that an employee that was 'bigger than the rest of them' had to stay behind the register 'so no one could see her body.'

In an bombshell Business Insider report months later, the publication claimed that if CEO Stephan Marsan 'thought a girl was too heavy or unattractive, he demanded that she be fired' and if 'a Brandy Melville store had too many Black employees, he had them replaced with white women.'

'If she was Black, if she was fat … he didn't want them in the store,' former senior vice president Luca Rotondo said.

The publication also alleged that there was 'a group text with Stephan and other top executives' that contained 'racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic jokes, including one photo in which Stephan edited his face on Adolf Hitler's body.'

One store owner named Franco Sorgi claimed to BI that Stephan 'called black people primitive' and once told him that 'he did not want black people to buy Brandy Melville clothing' because 'it would damage the brand's image.'

In addition, the company has been fiercely slammed online for its 'one size fits all' policy, which some believe can promote unhealthy beauty standards for young girls.

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