<![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @toubab: *jawdrop* Your bellybutton has to be exposed?? From a style angle, ykno, not the brightest idea. But that offends several religions' rules about modest dress, which means LAWSUIT. And yeah, they won't hire a girl who wears a scarf on her head, but that's also discrimination which = lawsuit!

nardo218

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: S'cause they're so low quality. The crappier made the clothes are, the larger the size you'll wear.

nardo218

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> every store, i think, has the dark, scary slotted storefront. even the one of fifth avenue does-- two stories tall. hideous.

lise2177

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @gerbilsinlove: Girl, come on. Chances are you just gotta ask if they've got beer in the fridge. Hairdressers = lushes.

cheera

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I had a couple pairs of A&F jeans in highschool. Never set foot in the store. I used to work in an upscale consignment shop and would buy the A&F jeans for $20 bucks.

I felt it was the best way to say "eff you" to the Abercrombie brand, to go around and say "Oh yeah, these were consignment."

Mav

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @sumac: I think that's the standard A&F mall standard. Never been in, too dark/smelly/noisy.

brokestephenswoman

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> And every now and then they have the random models just standing outside in their boxers! I was 14 with my (straight) friend and he begged me to walk through the store to say something to them for his own amusement, so I walked by the triad of Ken Dolls and cried, "I am NOT attracted to you." Most empowering moment of eighth grade, really.

whitekidinflatbush

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Dwight McBride documented a bunch of A&F's discriminatory practices in his book Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality. I read excerpts for a class, and it was pretty interesting/disgusting.

mysterygirl

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @shehatesme: Double swoon!

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> OMG, i was just at Abercrombie & Bitch flagship store today, because my niece loves the stuff (12 year olds from Connecticut usually do, no?) -- most horrifying shopping experience of all:
- music is damn loud, i wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't drag queen disco and none of the three sales associates I yelled my request at understood a word i was saying.
- there are so many freakin' people in there, 99% tourists i'm sure, and none of them know how to walk in a straight line, apparently -- or stand in a line...
bottom line is -- got the gift card and got the HELL outta there. reminds me of one of those nightclubs they set up in Utah during the Sundance fest, + sweaty smell.

dashenbka

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> heh, maybe that's how Queen Elizabeth got that bruise on her neck that the brits were fussing about a while back. I always knew she was a saucy wench...

fixed_lens

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @cheera: WHERE ARE YOU AND HOW CAN WE GET THERE?

gerbilsinlove

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Does anyone out of college even wear A&F? I can honestly say I've never set foot in one of their stores. The most obnoxious people I used to know wore A&F religiously and I was so turned off by how they treated minorities and the less attractive (which I'm sure they would consider me) that I can't bear to go in one.

MissPeacock

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The A&F store front in my local mall is literally made to look like the slats of a wooden closet door. Talk about overkill.

sumac

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> p.s. Klum's boobies are fantastic!!!

HotLipsHoulihaaay

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> A few weeks ago, I was "recruited" by two models to work at the flagship store, but I think I'll fucking die if anyone from my high school sees my 26 year old ass working there. I think I'll fucking die if my ass sees anyone from high school, ever. This is why I'm unemployed. I have deep psychological issues.

HotLipsHoulihaaay

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Douchey A&F.

SBJ

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> A&F quarterly isn't a catalogue, it's ingenious propaganda.

bernat

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @pixiesticks: I'm amazed at how far down a city street the scent of the cologne can get. I mean, how much are they pumping through the vents to saturate an ENTIRE CITY BLOCK?

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I work around the corner from the flagship A&F store on Fifth Avenue and there were people lined up outside this morning -- in 12-degree weather -- like it was a nightclub, waiting to get in. I regularly cross the street to avoid the place and the cologne headache.

pixiesticks

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Dammit, did my comment get eaten?

cheera

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The salon I work at serves booze! We're all at varying stations of alcoholism.

cheera

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @toubab: Ugh- I was asked to work at Hollister, which to me is even more insulting. No, just because I had a California girl aesthetic does not mean I want to work in your claustrophobic shit hole of a store for minimum wage. I'll keep my tan and blonde locks by actually working in THE SUN in a BIKINI and NOT being gawked over by adolescent boys.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @NefariousNewt: I had a fabulous hair dresser back home that would cut my hair for $35 bucks, which is a mere fraction of what I was paying out in L.A. The best part? It was like freakin' social hour. The mexican restaurant down the street would let him get margaritas to go, and so we'd drink some booze, he'd work magic on my hair, and then we'd talk about boys, politics, religion, feminism, celebs... I want him back. Find me another Jeff and I'd go to him in a heart beat.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I know a couple of people that work there. It's not just a job. It's three-quarters of their social life.

Make that four-fifths.

ImpossibleCheeseburgerPie

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @toubab: Actually, I have a friend who once worked there, who's black, who received a check for about a grand a couple years ago because they lost a class action suit against them for racist practices. So, maybe it didn't happen to you, but the racism there is real.

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @BeteNoir: Ahh, beat me to it.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I went in once as well. They blast god-awful Techno LOUDLY and aggressively, the clothes are overpriced, and of course....it represents everything wrong and evil with the fashion industry for teens (and children), between the anorexic-chic and those oh-so-awesome/"FUN" thongs for children (too bad they had to be taken off the the shelves!)....

BLECH.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> "Leif"??

I'm sorry, there's so many things wrong with the A&F catalogue, but that is just the punchline for me.

teruma

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> My sister works at A&F corporate and they play that terrible, extremely loud and vaguely techno music throughout all the offices. I have no idea how she works with that. Also, even working at the corporate offices, the employees have to fit into the Abercrombie "look"- they're not allowed to wear eyeliner, have to wear Uggs or Havianas, etc.

My sister is a buyer there and she told me that if Mike Jeffries doesn't like some things that have already been made, he burns them all rather than give them to a TJ Maxx-type store- because that would "cheapen the brand". Shudder...

GoodBadNotEvil

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @tetracycloide: There is one! Its called the red and black. I think they only do hair cuts though.

hammerimissu

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Well, confession time. I worked at A+F for two whole years and feel the need to defend them on the whole "racism" thing. I worked with plenty of gorgeous black, asian and native american people. They are much more offensive in that they put "ugly" people in the stockroom. The regional manager would actually visit the store with a Polaroid camera and demand to know why certain people were on the floor when they should be hidden from view.

Honestly, they just had the most bizarre rules like your belly button should be exposed at all times (they kept a handy dandy chart posted on the stock room door). There is no rhyme or reason to why certain people are asked to work there except someone working on the floor at that moment thought you were hot and wanted an excuse to hit on you.

toubab

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @chamarka: Jesus Cripes on a cracker.

"There" = A&F

chamarka

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @ArmCandy: actually, there was a lawsuit that A&F settled for $40mil: [www.naacpldf.org]

hansumyee

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Do the sales-twirps still pretend to play volleyball or demonstrate some other sporty(!) behavior if all the customers are being taken care of? Because that was required in the late '90s. No, I didn't work there (too tall, too pale, too skinny). Shit. My boyfriend did.

I know friends from high school who still insist on shopping there and The Gap, just like they did when we were in high school. Then I make a run to Bath and Body Works and ask if they have any Strawberry Lemonade and everyone just looks at me quizzically.

chamarka

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @DorothyZbornak: don't worry, i think that's the POINT of the ridiculously loud music. they play it so goddamn loud no one over the age of 17 can stand to be in there for more than 5 minutes...i'm pretty sure their motivation is to get parents to hand their children credit cards and get the hell out.

on another A&F rant, has anyone noticed that their sizes are completely fucked up? my friends and i have a theory that they make their shirts extra tiny for two reasons: 1) the better to slut with and 2)so no one even approaching a normal size can wear them.

onthecornerofparkerandwoolf

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: Last night this frat boy/former Abercrombie employee who has barely spoken three sentences to me in three years looks me up on AIM out of the blue and starts talking to me about literature. I'm not sure if he was just bored and secretly smart, or if he decided after three years to try and get in my pants.

As for the store itself, I've never been inside; my father decided one day that it looked like a gay eighties nightclub, and I haven't been able to look at it with a straight face ever since.

Dolly-At-School

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I want my salon to offer me drinks. Now I'm gonna spend time looking for a salon that will give me scotch.

We Don't Live in the 60s

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @pantycrickets: Yep, that's pretty much universal. How have they not been slammed with lawsuits?

ArmCandy

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Oh Heidi, you and your amazing rack are too good for A&F!

Also, I cannot go into that store because that fucking club music they play is so loud I can't hear myself think. Wow, with that sentence, I think I officially became an old fogey.

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I had to do a lab with an kid that worked at A&F, and he was the dumbest person I'd ever met. He also smelled like Satan's asshole, aka that damn fragrance.

AmericanSplendor

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> ...
I'm sorry, I was distracted by the phrase FREE SCOTCH. Free fucking scotch! Let the angel chorus sing!

(New Year's Resolution #2: drink more scotch. THANK YOU, universe, for helping my ass out with this.)

nadarine

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The WSJ has done the "men's salon that serves beer" story before, except it about salons that were so swank; it was about the Hooters of barber shops, Knockouts. [www.knockouts.net]

Just thinking about the smell of A&F cologne is bringing on a migraine.

Clare

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @howdybeep: Eh, this isn't hipster so much as frat-ish. Which I think is pretty much inherently pervy.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @stacyinbean: That's not even the worst of it! My ex worked there and he said that they would even mop the floors with that shit. I thought is was immensly an awesome idea so I immediately went home and sprayed my Burberry London stuff over everything in my room.

Reluctant Financier

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> What is it about hipster (and I use the term loosely) clothing companies and pervy, porny owners?

howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I was in there one time buying underwear for my friend in London when the salesboy said, "I'm wearing that style" and proceeded to drop trou. Ahhhh A&F!

mavricky

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Ok, I went into an Abercrombie the other day for the first time since high school (8 years). There was a skinny kid walking around and spraying all the clothes with a bottle of some Abercrombie scented spray shit. I was so intrigued I followed him around the whole store while my mom shopped for lil' bro. It was honestly the weirdest thing I've ever seen but at least now I know why it smells like the first hour of a frat party in there.

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @lesbiansayswhat: I was thinking more along the lines of cell phone cases.

@pantycrickets: Hells no. I don't take cabs.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Also: do A&F stores smell like Axe? Because I made the mistake of wandering into a Hollister once, and had to run for my life, as the entire store REEKED of 15 year old boy.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I'm definitely not a designer or a socialite, but the blind item definitely describes my New Year's Eve. How I will miss 2007.

shehatesme

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @badmutha: Yeah. And she was very sick at the time.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> A&F stores all look like opium dens to me. I had a friend 9gay male, v. fashionable) back in Ohio (where they are based) interview with the owner/pres (big gay, also) and he said he was told by the guy in no uncertain terms that he was "too old" at 29 to work for AF. My friend suspected that it was more like he didn't fit this guy's idea of eye candy. Dude running that place is a creep.

sirsnarksalot

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> jesus christ, quick, where are these beauty salons!?? I uhm, really need a hair cut right now. is the free booze for chicks too?

krazykarot

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @hortense: Did she have anerexia?

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @NefariousNewt: Yeah I think every dude I know would agree with you on that. Personally, I'm happy to have the price of my haircut hidden from me as the stylist gets me likkered up and massages my scalp. When time comes to pay, it don't matta!*

* Until I leave the salon and the cold air smacks me in the face and I feel a tremendous financial anxiety that spirals into guilt about faceless starving people in generic third world settings.

leMaldeTete

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Somebody else said an Olsen twin was probably the vague designer.

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I have never set foot in an A&F. A girl I was in the hospital with told me that when she was at her sickest, they begged her to work there every time she went in. "You have just the look we're after," they said. Assholes.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> We all know the blind item socialite was our own Athertonmerriweather ;)

pantycrickets

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> What is a 'vague' designer? Someone from Project Runway?

lesbiansayswhat

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> My cousin works at an Abercrombie and she told me that they only hire black, hispanic, and asian people to work in the stock room. I was appalled.

pantycrickets

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I've never understood the A&F catalogs. I've only seen one of them. Someone tried to sell us one at work and it threw it away because 1) it's a catalog, and 2) it was too porny to go out. How the hell do you sell clothes when no one is wearing them?

Also, biker wear makes me a little sad. Is being a faux-biker the next big thing? Strange it would come right after faux-nerd. :P

jessy ratfink

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The A&F machine is evil. Every time I walked in there in high school, they asked if I wanted a job. As soon as I got boobs and lost the tan and highlights, they looked at me like a foreigner (gasp!). Now I get headaches from the music and cologne just from walking by.

ArmCandy

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @biscuitdoughjones: hmmm could be. how old is this pic?

Two things I like about AF, the big posters with hot men displayed in all their hotness and the music they play. Everything else, overpriced.

the historian

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @biscuitdoughjones: Thats what I was wondering. I cant see her as being an A&F model though.

ndngrl

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> So it's the Hell's Angels that bought out the Hannah Montana concert tickets...this explains why they were so darn expensive.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The only good thing about A&F is that the occasionally have gigantic homoerotic displays when you walk by in the mall. And I stop and stare.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Is that Heidi Klum in that A&F pic?

BiscuitDoughJones

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> If I could find a salon that fed me alcohol, I might stop cutting my own hair once and for all.

gerbilsinlove

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> I want the beer and pool table saloon too! Fuck the scalp massage.

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> @leMaldeTete: If they want to attract me, then find someone who can give me a decent haircut for $15. I miss my old barber, but he was in his 70's when I was kid so I suspect he's long out of the business now.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Tara Subkoff?!

langtry

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> geegaw : n. A decorative trinket; a bauble.

Jezebel has been brought to you by the letter G, the number 69...

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> i have got to find me a beauty salon in d.c. with gin and a pool table.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> The socialite is surely Tinsley, on her way to Beatrice, right?

kai1984

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> A&F Quarterly is what made me realize that I am, in fact, a flaming, sissy, homosexual that was not in any way attracted to men that are 6'4'', completely worked out, blond hair blue eyes.

Reluctant Financier

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Sorry, beauty salons, free gin attracts ME.

leMaldeTete

]]> <![CDATA[Porny Abercrombie & Fitch Catalog To Make Triumphant Return To Store Shelves!]]> Hannah Montana is enough to make me puke most of the time. I can't believe Billy Ray Cyrus fell so far that he to farm out his daughter like that.

NefariousNewt

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