something rather interesting...
my school has a 'quarterly' school newspaper. we just got the final one of the school year today. as iwas reading it, i noticed one of the articles in the viewpoints section was pretty much this exact thread

. seems that we're not the only ones with a dislike for a&f. it actually even mentioned something about the children's thongs, although it said it was for ages 10 - 14, but seeeing what a&f has done, i'm not surprised if they have 7 - 10 thongs also.