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    Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality

    Clothes Call

    Banished Employee, Others Speak Out Against Abercrombie's Awfulness

    Abercrombie "Banishes" Girl With Prosthetic Arm To Storeroom Because She Doesn't Fit The "Look Policy"
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I am oblivious to whether hats are in fashion or not. However, I have worn hats daily for decades and my collection includes hats from the 1940s and 1950s. My oldest hat is a hundred years old and is in a perfect condition. Last night I bought a huge Victorian hat box to put some of them in. My love of hats is certainly cheaper and more comfortable than having a shoe obsession.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Those people can keep their Lolita glasses. I do not see the appeal.
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    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    "Agent Provocateur is launching a new line of super-expensive lingerie it's calling couture."
    I thought they already did this. Also, recessions are great times to start selling v. expensive underwear.
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    Image of Bitcherina Bitcherina
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I thought you meant Tori Amos was starting a clothing line... and now I'm sad that it's not the case.
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    08/17/09

    @Bitcherina: Now we're all going to have to make our own fringed nightmares. :(
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    Image of Jenna Jenna
    08/17/09

    @Bitcherina: Oh, don't we all wish that.
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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Hats are back, but not hats to the back. Sorry, TLC.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    Fashion's Night Out: get out, meet your neighbors, judge their fashion sense and style...
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    08/17/09

    In reply to Fashion's Night Out's Celeb Lineup Announced; Tori Clothing Line A Reality
    I'm confused, why would J.Crew be selling Levi's?
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    Image of iamjames iamjames
    08/13/09

    In reply to Clothes Call
    Give me a break! Hooters doesn't hire fat girls, neither do casinos. If a particular company doesn't want a prosthetic arm flaying about in front of their customers, they should be able to ask her to go to the stockroom. Even McDonalds shoves guys to the kitchen and leaves the women upfront as cashiers. Abercrombie and Fitch is well known for their "look" of skinny white teens and college kids running around and having a great time. That sells clothes. Prosthetic arms do not.

    Next thing you know they'll get sued because their ads don't have wheelchair kids in them.
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    Image of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn
    08/13/09

    @iamjames: So let me get this straight. Just because other companies have discriminatory hiring practices makes this one right too? I'd sue them all. If a person is fully able to do the job that he or she was hired for, he or she should be able to keep that job. Period. Using other examples of clearly-wrong discrimination doesn't make what A&F did right.

    And A&F catalogs are full of vapid, blank-staring, limp-posing models that look like drug-addled junkies or coma patients. Especially a lot of the women. I think a dude playing basketball in a wheelchair would be a definite improvement.
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    Image of Sanfo Sanfo
    08/13/09

    @saya: I approved your response, Saya, not iamjames' response. Tertiary fire, I guess.

    I agree- she deserves more compensation from a company that prides itself on its racist, discriminatory policies. Riam Dean is perfectly capable to work on the front lines in a clothing store- not that it's something I'd wish upon her, but if is what she chooses to do, she should be able to do it.
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    Image of TheJacqueline ValJean TheJacqueline ValJean
    08/13/09

    @iamjames: I agree. They might be a sucky company, but there is reason that front-end Abercrombie employees are categorized as "models"- and its exactly so law suits like this can be avoided.
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    Image of Eriu Eriu
    08/13/09

    @TheJacqueline ValJean: Actually, only the two people who stand at the front of the store and literally do nothing else are considered models, and they're not there all the time. All of the other employees are "brand representatives," and since there aren't models there every day (usually only on weekends, holidays and/or big shopping days like Black Friday) sometimes "brand representatives" stand at the front of the store for an entire shift and greet and recruit people, based on their appearance of course. Still, that classification does not protect the company from discrimination suits. They're actually lucky they got away with it in this case. Usually they don't.
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    Image of sassy sassy
    08/13/09

    In reply to Clothes Call
    Oh, for the love of fuck. Are you serious? So she was harassed, but not discriminated against? I may be over sensitive, but being sent to work in the stockroom because she didn't look right goes a bit beyond harassment.
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    Image of sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell
    08/13/09

    In reply to Clothes Call
    Money can buy you verdicts.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/13/09

    @sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: And in the current world economy, that is doubly true.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    08/13/09

    In reply to Clothes Call
    I guess I have to stop buying Abercrombie and Fitch blue jeans now, huh? Damn.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    08/13/09

    In reply to Clothes Call
    How had she NOT suffered disability discrimination?
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    Image of ThurstonButterfly ThurstonButterfly
    06/29/09

    In reply to Abercrombie "Banishes" Girl With Prosthetic Arm To Storeroom Because She Doesn't Fit The "Look Policy"
    Heres my question.. and I'm not trying to start any arguments, but I work with the A&F chain

    Working in the back gives the same pay as working in the front.
    Modeling agencies don't get sued for turning down people with handicaps... If the goal is to have floor models wearing the clothes that the store is promoting for the season, I don't see how its THAT outrageous. It's the business world. the goal is to be marketable.

    And although I understand her disappointment COMPLETELY (dont get me wrong on that)... It's a bit sad that being asked to work in the back of A&F made her feel "completely worthless..." that's just a wee bit too addicted to the ego trip of working in the front...
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    09/09/09

    @ThurstonButterfly: She wasn't hired to be a model. She was hired to work on the floor.

    Using your logic, someone in a wheelchair couldn't work on the floor because they wouldn't be able to stand and show off the pants? Seriously?
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    Image of lilydancing lilydancing
    06/24/09

    In reply to Banished Employee, Others Speak Out Against Abercrombie's Awfulness
    Why did she want to work in the 3rd circle of Hell in the first place? Damn.
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    06/24/09

    @lilydancing: Maybe she wanted an employee discount on their clothes? It doesn't really matter why she wanted to work there, they shouldn't be able to treat people that way.
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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    06/24/09

    In reply to Banished Employee, Others Speak Out Against Abercrombie's Awfulness
    Would it be too much if I snuck into the A&F store here in my local mall and sewed the arm and leg holes closed of as many garments as I could?


    Surreptitious Revolution!

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