Trends · data through September 2026

Teen & Young Adult Apparel in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 80 stores from 18 teen & young adult apparel chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Aéropostale grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hot Topic and PacSun.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
18
Tracked stores
80
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked teen & young adult apparel chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Aéropostale and Hot Topic sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Aéropostale logo Aéropostale - +6.9%
2 H Hot Topic logo Hot Topic - +5.3%
3 P PacSun logo PacSun - +2.8%
4 A American Eagle logo American Eagle - -0.7%
5 H Hollister Co. logo Hollister Co. - -5.2%
6 S Spencer's logo Spencer's ▲1 -5.8%
7 Z Zumiez logo Zumiez ▼1 -6.5%
8 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters - -91.6%
  • American Eagle
  • Hollister Co.
  • Garage
  • Hot Topic
  • PacSun
  • Spencer's
  • Zumiez
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

80 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • American Eagle (15)
  • Hollister Co. (6)
  • Garage (2)
  • Hot Topic (9)
  • PacSun (4)
  • Spencer's (10)
  • Zumiez (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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