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what u think about abercrombie and the people who wear it
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Fievel
RunDisney Addict
I don't know why we need another thread for this....you're obviously outnumbered and are looking to just make yourself look right.....
...too bad you'll fail
Here's my take
1) Prices are horribly high
2) Clothes aren't trendy anymore...you can find the same crap at wal-mart now...and that CAN'T be good for business.
3) If you become popular after you start shopping there: Your friends are shallow, pretentious, and will ditch you at the first opportunity to make themselves look better in the process.
4) Like I said before, if you claim to be yourself of that much of a christian and find nothing wrong with their ads, you need to go to church more often.
Basically, if you think you're making yourself "cool" by wearing their stuff, you're wrong. In fact, while you may be bringing yourself up with you shallow friends, there are going to be a LOT more people laughing at you silently because you paid over $30 for a T-shirt.
...too bad you'll fail
Here's my take
1) Prices are horribly high
2) Clothes aren't trendy anymore...you can find the same crap at wal-mart now...and that CAN'T be good for business.
3) If you become popular after you start shopping there: Your friends are shallow, pretentious, and will ditch you at the first opportunity to make themselves look better in the process.
4) Like I said before, if you claim to be yourself of that much of a christian and find nothing wrong with their ads, you need to go to church more often.
Basically, if you think you're making yourself "cool" by wearing their stuff, you're wrong. In fact, while you may be bringing yourself up with you shallow friends, there are going to be a LOT more people laughing at you silently because you paid over $30 for a T-shirt.
DisneyPhD
Well-Known Member
I tend to agree with most of the other adults on this thread that feel people who care if they are wearing A&F are teenagers or teenage want-to-bes (older or younger.) Most people who know the value of money (even those who are in college) don't buy cothes just for the name.
I remember when I was a kid I would die for for Guess jeans. I spent many a saturday night baby sitting in order to dress cool.
Don't get me wrong, I still love cothes! Just too mature to care if they are the current hot name.
Tiggsmom, I hope my DD is like yours when she grows up. I am very proud of my 12 year old niece who doesn't follow all the hot trends, but does her own thing. I also agree it is inapropate to market ______ to sell cothes to children. But then again my opinon does seem to mater much to anyone outside my family (but thats who is really important anyway right?)
Wear what you like and can aford. Personally I would rather spend the $ on a trip to WDW, and do.
I remember when I was a kid I would die for for Guess jeans. I spent many a saturday night baby sitting in order to dress cool.
Don't get me wrong, I still love cothes! Just too mature to care if they are the current hot name.
Tiggsmom, I hope my DD is like yours when she grows up. I am very proud of my 12 year old niece who doesn't follow all the hot trends, but does her own thing. I also agree it is inapropate to market ______ to sell cothes to children. But then again my opinon does seem to mater much to anyone outside my family (but thats who is really important anyway right?)
Wear what you like and can aford. Personally I would rather spend the $ on a trip to WDW, and do.
DanStat
Well-Known Member
That's so true! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Abercrombie and Fitch...the pivitol(sp?) prep clothing...right?...
WRONG!
This prep refuses to wear Abercrombie and Fitch. You can't buy taste, and if you could, you certainly couldn't buy it at Abercrombie.
I'll stick to Burberry, Old Navy, and American Eagle.
TravisMT81
Well-Known Member
Not that I am very old (22) but I remember AF before they changed over. I miss the old Abercrombie. The quality of the clothes justified the price more.
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Also Disneyprep how can you go from OldNavy to Burberrry. totally different leagues. Also AE has tried to copy AF for so many years so they are just as bad, but at least cheaper lol.
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Also Disneyprep how can you go from OldNavy to Burberrry. totally different leagues. Also AE has tried to copy AF for so many years so they are just as bad, but at least cheaper lol.
Tramp
New Member
You're such a sweetheart:kiss: ...and soooo right. I think if someone is so obsessed with a particular brand of clothing and needs to dress like everyone else to feel 'in', they need to try some "Government Issued." Not only are they very vogue these days but they come with a lifelong guarantee of a new attitude and a more mature perspective on life.
signed,
Abercrapie Dad
DDPGambit
Member
I dislike the clothing, first and foremost because it's just not any of the styles I like. Second, the snobby attitude exhibited by people who work/shop there really gets on my nerves. "I work for/shop at Abercrombie, I'm better than you!", which was something I heard a bunch during high school. I'm not saying all who work/shop there act like this, but the majority of those people who I have met did act like this.
There are a lot of valid points in this thread!
The thing is earlier in my life I did try to be an orinal, i was old school preppy. All I would wear was Polo dress clothes. And u know what after i made the change 2 Abercrombie (i changed 4 a gurl) i was much happier. Today marks one year of me wearing AnF, and i am sooo happy. Now i have figured out that AnF is my true style and it's hip! Now i hange out with people who wear AnF and we all carry out the "Abercrombie Lifestyle." So one year of AnF and many more years 2 come.
The thing is earlier in my life I did try to be an orinal, i was old school preppy. All I would wear was Polo dress clothes. And u know what after i made the change 2 Abercrombie (i changed 4 a gurl) i was much happier. Today marks one year of me wearing AnF, and i am sooo happy. Now i have figured out that AnF is my true style and it's hip! Now i hange out with people who wear AnF and we all carry out the "Abercrombie Lifestyle." So one year of AnF and many more years 2 come.
General Grizz
New Member
From The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, "All that cometh is vanity." Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.
. . .
Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs "go out of the world." (1Cor. v. 10.)
Complete text of section: http://members.accessbee.com/beatley/hispilgrim/new_page_9.htm
Let me know if you need a hand in symbolism. But I'm sure you liked it - it's based on Christian philosophy. You did read it?
Further Reading: "Araby" by James Joyce
Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, "All that cometh is vanity." Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.
. . .
Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs "go out of the world." (1Cor. v. 10.)
Complete text of section: http://members.accessbee.com/beatley/hispilgrim/new_page_9.htm
Let me know if you need a hand in symbolism. But I'm sure you liked it - it's based on Christian philosophy. You did read it?
Further Reading: "Araby" by James Joyce
Maybe my opinion is skewed because i wear a size small/medium in Abercrombie shirts and i ahve a waste of like twenty five.
General Grizz
New Member
Here's the text to Araby: http://eserver.org/fiction/araby.html
It's based off of Pilgrim's Promise (see above).
It's based off of Pilgrim's Promise (see above).
Steamboat_Kevin
Well-Known Member
Whoa, you base your entire life around a clothing company?
Buddy, you need to get your priorities straight, CLOTHES ARE CLOTHES!
:brick:
General Grizz
New Member
I Peter 1:14-16. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Some Abercrombie facts:
In 1999, Abercrombie & Fitch was called to account for disseminating a catalog filled with ography to
minors by then Michigan Attorney General, Jennifer Granholm. A&F responded by placing cellophane around
their catalog and making it mandatory that sales clerks ID young customers. But the sale and distribution of
ographic catalogs continued. In spite of the controversy, it has continued its trend of using ography to
draw customers. For a more complete expose of the ographic nature of A&F, visit our website at
www.americandecency.org/abercrombie.htm
Most recently, A&F’s Back to School - fall - catalog 2003 portrays a topless woman in a convertible with
two nude men. Now anyone who comes in contact with the catalog - from mail carriers to children who pass by
the displays of the Quarterly in A&F stores are exposed to sexual allurement.
Abercrombie & Fitch targets teens, at the most vulnerable point in their lives, utilizing erotic, completely nude
young women and men..
Any corporate entity, TV program, magazine, video game, movie, catalog that attempts to undermine the
sexual purity of any child or God's clarion call “to be holy as He is holy” must be exposed and their evil
opposed.
______ is a wonderful gift of God - in the context of marriage. As a person follows the vision of sexuality painted
by A&F, that young person is blindly being led down a path that may seem innocent enough but will only
damage and destroy
Credits:
http://www.americandecency.org/abercrombie.htm
Incidentally, there is a boycott on Disney on the website. (Issues on Disney's Deminsion films, etc).
Some Abercrombie facts:
In 1999, Abercrombie & Fitch was called to account for disseminating a catalog filled with ography to
minors by then Michigan Attorney General, Jennifer Granholm. A&F responded by placing cellophane around
their catalog and making it mandatory that sales clerks ID young customers. But the sale and distribution of
ographic catalogs continued. In spite of the controversy, it has continued its trend of using ography to
draw customers. For a more complete expose of the ographic nature of A&F, visit our website at
www.americandecency.org/abercrombie.htm
Most recently, A&F’s Back to School - fall - catalog 2003 portrays a topless woman in a convertible with
two nude men. Now anyone who comes in contact with the catalog - from mail carriers to children who pass by
the displays of the Quarterly in A&F stores are exposed to sexual allurement.
Abercrombie & Fitch targets teens, at the most vulnerable point in their lives, utilizing erotic, completely nude
young women and men..
Any corporate entity, TV program, magazine, video game, movie, catalog that attempts to undermine the
sexual purity of any child or God's clarion call “to be holy as He is holy” must be exposed and their evil
opposed.
______ is a wonderful gift of God - in the context of marriage. As a person follows the vision of sexuality painted
by A&F, that young person is blindly being led down a path that may seem innocent enough but will only
damage and destroy
Credits:
http://www.americandecency.org/abercrombie.htm
Incidentally, there is a boycott on Disney on the website. (Issues on Disney's Deminsion films, etc).
i remeber reading Pilgrim's Promise in third grade: at that time i had no idea what it meant but now i do. The thing is i don't see how abercrombie is bad for me to wear as i don't endorse their modeling i go foor their clothes, look, and the fact that i like it. my whole family likes abercrombie: they give me the money to buy the clothes and (no offense) they would rather me in them than gothic colthes. In this world there really is no department store clotes their are just smaller trendy stores that are popular.
General Grizz
New Member
I see it this way: if you wear a shirt that says "ABERCROMBIE" on it, you support the direct company, which consistently uses this modelling for its means of advertisment - thus, you are supporting the modeling in the eyes of many.
pinkrose
Well-Known Member
By supporting the store, you do endorse their advertising. They use advertising to bring in customers. Customers come in and buy items, hence the advertising "worked". If they lose the customers, then they will (hopefully) change their advertising techniques to bring the custumers back in.
Steamboat_Kevin
Well-Known Member
Okay, IMO it wouldn't be bad if you just wore the clothes and wore other things, but you talk about it all the time and you said it yourself, you base your entire lifestyle around it! :brick: