Yet another reason to dislike Abercrombie...

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
If u guys think this about A&F, are your thoughts similar for stores like American Eagle, Hollister, Aeropostale, GAP, Old Navy?

Just wondering.

Yeah, I've never liked Abercrombie ... American Eagle is a little better, but I never buy clothes there ... Never heard of Hollister... Aeropostale bothers me; my cousin who is like, a size -1 shops there cause she can't find clothes small enough anywhere else but we don't have an Aeropostale in Wisconsin so I (obviously) don't shop there ... Gap is ok, I just think their clothes are ugly ... I shop at Old Navy (Just bought a really cute dress there for $18! Woo hoo!). But usually I buy my clothes at Kohls, Deb, Vanity PacSun and sometimes Sears. I used to shop at Limited because they made jeans short enough to fit me! But then they started to get ridiculously expensive and then stopped selling jeans all together.

Oh, that whole children's thong thing? That's just wrong.

- Katie

[Firewolf]

u people finally got the point y i started this!
that kind of... poopy...
the kid thongs... ok, its wrong enough for them to have it...
but y does it have things written on it?
what 7-10 year old (should be) going 'round showing off what it
says on their undergarments??
i mean, really...
then we sit here and wonder where all these pedophilic things / thoughts start off at...

samething w/ the shirts - i thought we were trying to STOP racism - okok, when ur j/king around w/ ur friends, it might be cool, everyones'k w/ it, but when people start boycotting stores, should it be stopped?

[IsabelRinging]

I'm half Asian, and as far as the "racist" shirts go they don't really bother me. I would even go so far as to say I find them slightly amusing. But I'm sure a lot of people would NOT feel the same way I do.

It's pretty obvious A&F is doing all this for attention. Like they say, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

I don't shop there solely because of the prices (and now, the children's thong thing). I wouldn't be like, "Ugh, I won't shop here because all the stupid preps shop here." I could care less about the store's reputation. I'm not worried about my clothing, as long as it looks decent, fits me, and is cheap.

I feel obliged to add that Bealls Outlet and TJ Maxx are stores of the gods.

[Joe Matt]

What pisses me off is that people sit in Congress and say that video games, TV, and movies cause over sexualtiy, and here we have A&F selling thongs to 7 year olds. Come on!

[robomama]

personally i do think that those things

video games, TV, and movies

desensitize us into thinking well i guess this is ok. after seeing something so much the initital shock just isn't there. its a very easy lull to get into.. i know i'm just a guilty of this as anyone else.

i think if we all try to be true to what we know is right then we could solve a lot of problems. in other words-don't be afraid to say what you believe to be right , morally and ethically.

i think first does a wonderful job of promoting this.

ok somebody get me off this soap box!!!!

[ChrisH]

Originally posted by robomama

ok somebody get me off this soap box!!!!

Why ever would I want to do that? You're expressing my opinions so well!

[robomama]

well thanks, chris

[Elgin Clock]

Originally posted by IsabelRinging
Huh. But have you guys noticed the new children's thongs A&F is making for girls age 7-10? Only a bit disturbing... until you throw in the fact that these CHILDREN'S thongs say things like "sexy" and "eye candy."

Now THAT is just inherently wrong.

Is that the R. Kelly collection you are referring to?!??!

[Ian W.]

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.

[Firewolf]

[i]

Is that the R. Kelly collection you are referring to?!??! [/b]

omy, too true,


but it doesn't matter if the thongs are for 10-14 or 7-10, thats just ... wrong!

[Trashed20]

Originally posted by Chubtoad
Who needs to buy shirts anyway??!! just use your ROBOTICS shirts!

I have enought robotics shirts to wear a different one for everyday of the week and not repeat. then i need to wash 'em or i'll smell like florida and the monorails

[GotGuts610]

Hey everyone! This is my first post, so I'm gonna try to make it good:
*As for the racist shirts, the first time I saw one of them was today, and frankly, even though I am not even partly Asian, I can see why these shirts could be found racist (PS: Isn't buddhism from India? And, if so, why are there Chinese/Japanese characters on the Buddha Abercrombie shirt?).
*As for the thongs for little girls, I think that its totally disgusting. Our perverted society has turned even little girls into sexual objects, and I think whoever came up with the idea of thongs for 10-14 year olds should be sued. After all, if we can sue McDonald's if our coffee is too hot, why can't we sue Abercrombie for encouraging pedophilia?
*As for wearing Abercrombie in general, I'm not completely opposed to it. I personally don't own any of their clothes because I think they're way to expensive, but its nearly impossible to buy shirts anywhere without company logos plastered onto them, so to me it doesn't matter if its Abercrombie, Old Navy, or whatever.

[Ian W.]

GASP! max, how could you forget world history so fast!?! mr ferrante will be horrified!!!

FYI: Buddhism started in India, but then moved to China and Japan. What are we ever going to do with you max...

[GotGuts610]

Now i will post the reply where I meant it to go:

Ian...
I know Buddhism moved to China and Japan, but if Abercrombie is going to make a racist shirt, they might as well make a reference to the country where it started, not where it migrated. I'll bet if the Buddha saw that they were using East Asian script on his shirt, he'd be turning over in his grave, that is, if he wasn't burned on a funeral pyre...

[Ashley Weed]

I have enought robotics shirts to wear a different one for everyday of the week and not repeat.

*Yeah, me too, but after 3 years of robotics, I finally made it from post-nationals return to school day until the last day of school (June 7th) without ever wearing the same robotics shirt twice! Eventhough I did this everyday, I still had the same people who asked me more than once what my shirts meant.


*I won't even get into the thong issue. In my mind the entire thing is just wrong. I agree that congress should pay attention to this.

*Last, I would never buy A&F, or anything similar to it, because their sizes range from a 0-4. Yeah right! How realistic is that? People think video games and television teaches children bad things. What about a child seeing a place offer clothes only to people who weigh less than 100lbs? Is that really healthy?