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[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----!

[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/

[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.

[catonsville]

Petition Signed

[Not A Snowbird]

I have never set foot inside Abercrombie and Fitch, and I plan to go to my grave never having done so. They aren't getting a dime of my money.

[Helms]

Abercrombie (/Columbine) "kids" just like to have fun hanging out with their straight, gay and switch-hitting friends, play a little "touch" football, and who knows, maybe you get to show some skin and even your underwear.

[GOPcapitalist]

I don't know enough about this catalogue debate to comment on it but I can tell you one thing: Anybody who is stupid enough to shop at a store carrying new clothes that are intentionally designed to look like used clothes yet are sold at new premium level prices has serious issues unto him or herself.

[Lizavetta]

Public Service Message:

For those of you with daughters who are desperate for places to buy modest clothes for your girls, I have found wonderful things at thrift stores and yard sales. Several weeks ago at an elementary school rummage sale I got a grocery bag full of shorts, shirts, pants, swimsuits, and dresses for my 7 year old daughter for $3.50. All of it was used but in great shape, fabulous colors, all cotton, no slogans sexual or otherwise.

[ladyinred]

I saw some of the pictures on a local news program and I was just stunned! I can't believe we have sunk so low in this nation that a company like this would feel it is acceptable to publish this kind of filth in it's Christmas catalog!
I have signed the petition gladly, but it sounds as though they are so arrogant they don't care. In your face smut with young kids!

[Lady Eileen]

Bump...Thanks for the post and the info.