Abercrombie & Fitch: The catalog will be back!

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 5, 2003

[EdReform]

BTTT

[sarasota]

Thanks for making it so easy to sign the petition.

[HarleyD]

When all other stores are posting decent sales increases Abercrombie & Fitch are reporting their sales are down 13% from last year. Wonder why?

[Dante3]

A&F's agenda is not just to sell clothes, but to promote their demented values and cause harm for this country.

[.cnI redruM]

Oh good. I missed Pimpercrombie and B----!

[1Old Pro]

When all other stores are posting decent sales increases Abercrombie & Fitch are reporting their sales are down 13% from last year. Wonder why?

13% if the kids who buy their clothese there are no longer buying clothes there due to severe (STD) illnesses.

[Hatteras]

I'll need to see the catalog so I can make an honest assessment of the charges brought forth...

[Amy4President]

I just find it amusing because I'm intuitively thinking that the main people who are boycotting A&F were never the people who shopped there to begin with.

I'm picturing 50 year olds from the Midwest in a miniskirt and a halter and well... it's just not working for me. :D

I have no problem with A&F. A lot of their shirts are nice and of good quality (at least in my experience).

[Cicero]

In the long run, this kind of stuff will destroy A & F. You can only be a sleazy "in" store for so long, and then the fashion followers will move on to the next even sleazier store. In the meantime, you have lost your painfully built image of being a top-rank store for ladies and gentlemen.

For instance, for some idea of the competition, consider the popular clothing store, Yellow Rat Bastard, on lower Broadway:

http://gallery.future-i.com/newyork/pic:yellow-rat-bastard/

[conserv13]

Whats wrong with group sex?

[Hodar]

That's funny. There is no mention in this article anywhere that the magazine is SOLD to customers 18 and older. The article implies that this is a sales flyer, and is freely distributed to children, when this is NOT the case.

A little intellectual honesty would go a long way. Firstly, A&F is rather stupid to sell 'soft-porn' at a clothing store targetting children. And the author would do well to mention the facts, and not mislead. This is like saying that 7-11 is targetting children with Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler; when the fact is that although the store may sell these products, sales are restricted to legal adults.

[Fpimentel]

The last time I heard of an A&F fiasco was when they were selling thong underwear for little girls.

[Hodar]

The last time I heard of an A&F fiasco was when they were selling thong underwear for little girls

And one has to wonder 2 things. First, what parent would buy thong underwear for children this young? The last time I checked, 12 yr old girls didn't have a whole lot of spending power.

Secondly, A&F's mission is to sell merchandise. So, did this ploy relate to commercial success?

[catonsville]

Petition Signed

[eno_]

A&F's agenda is not just to sell clothes, but to promote their demented values and cause harm for this country.

Yeah! Good looking naked people, why that could lead to sex, sex people enjoy, and really enjoying sex is bad, because dumpy looking people in bad clothes don't generally enjoy sex that much and that ain't fair! In fact, anyone getting more sex in more orifices than a church lady in saggy stockings and sensible shoes is probably a member of Satan's own squad of commie sex fiends.

[Fpimentel]

Yes, it did lead to commercial success.

The thong story made it into the news just as this catalog

is in the news. Free publicity seems to be working for

them. I know some 12 year olds who get a $20 a week

allowance. Idiot parents are ultimately to blame, but

when these types of stores end up in the mall, it makes it

very difficult to shelter your kids from this crap.

[nickcarraway]

Well, first of all they have huge signs with these pictures in the store windows, whixh anybody can see. Secondly, maybe somelocations sell them, but other locations seem to give them out. Lastly, the clothes are aimed at that age range and feature models in that age range. If they are selling clothes to under-18s, how does a catalogue help if under-18s don't see it?

[eno_]

Now iffen they would show some fellers with dentures, snap down brim hats, smoking cheap pipe tobacco while driving their old Buick with two babes macking on him they'd not have such troubles. It's a lack of diversitivity I tells ya!