# Abercrombie and Fitch is officially fucked in the head. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359 "2002-05-22T19:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/1 "2002-05-22T19:53:30Z")
[Abercrombie Selling Thongs for Kids](http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/22/news/companies/abercrombie/index.htm). Ahem. Dear Abercrombie: You need to fire the dumbass who keeps coming up with stupid ideas. Sincerely, -Friedo ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/2 "2002-05-22T20:12:16Z")
I saw this on the news last night and could not fucking believe it. These things even have patches on them that are supposed to be “cute”. The patches say things like “cherry” and “eye candy” **Eye candy?!!!** … **CHERRY!!!** Holy-fifty-foot-Jesus-on-a-thermonuclear-hippity-hop that’s just wrong. Who is the idiot (or pervert - I’m not sure which) who green lighted this product launch? Fuckin A’. Where’s this country going? And what’s with this handbasket? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/3 "2002-05-22T20:26:44Z")
Yeah I’d like to slap the guy in marketing who came up with this, he’s giving the rest of us a bad name. ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/4 "2002-05-22T20:32:12Z")
> [@](#): > > “The underwear for young girls was created with the intent to be lighthearted and cute.” Two Wongs can make it white, indeed. What a bunch of idiots. And they have no plans to recall. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/5 "2002-05-22T20:32:41Z")
last time we had the t-shirts with Asian racial slurs. Now we have the pedophile-bait thongs for kids. There must be a mole from The Gap subverting from within in the A&F marketing department. > [@](#): > > “Father O’Malley, you’re buying WHAT for the altarboys?” ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/6 "2002-05-22T20:40:39Z")
I’m going to rant now. Please disregard offensive sections below: Abercrombie and Fitch is nothing but a low-imagination, low quality clothes store. No one over the age of 17 should wear these clothes unless they plan on looking like a sloppy teenager. GROW UP and wear something a little more CLASSY. Go to freakin’ Banana Republic at least and get a nice pair of pants and a nice shirt, for God’s sake. Quit looking like a sloppy, over-sized camping bum. Wear something with some class and style. Rant over. Tibs. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/7 "2002-05-22T20:44:29Z")
A&F can go suck it. First Racist clothes, now pedophile clothes, what’s next, “Have Sex with your Pets” brand t-shirts? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/8 "2002-05-22T20:45:49Z")
I particularly like how the statement from A&F that I saw on the news last night said that anyone who sees these panties as suggestive is just sick themselves. WAY TO TURN THAT AROUND. Mind if I pop your daughter’s creamy eye candy cherry sir? J ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/9 "2002-05-22T20:52:54Z")
This is why I want to learn to sew. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/10 "2002-05-22T20:53:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I particularly like how the statement from A&F that I saw on the news last night said that anyone who sees these panties as suggestive is just sick themselves. > > WAY TO TURN THAT AROUND. Mind if I pop your daughter’s creamy eye candy cherry sir? > > J \*\* Now, come on, **jarbaby** … is it A&F’s fault if you are choosing to associate these harmless kiddie panties with similar goods worn by exotic dancers and sold by Frederick’s of Hollywood for purposes of down and dirty booty? (Note: I have nothing against exotic dancers… but they should be older than _eleven_, goddamn.) Did you ever think that perhaps the kids simply find thongs more comfortable, or are simply trying to avoid the fashion faux pas of visible panty lines? Ya sick bastid. Boy, I don’t envy parents today. My parents thought they had it tough when I asked for my first bra… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/11 "2002-05-22T20:53:59Z")
On the upside, it means fewer skid marks in the laundry to worry about. J, you may have served dangerously close to the single best sig line I have ever laid eyes on. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/12 "2002-05-22T21:37:34Z")
[TMI] Actually, **pldennison** , when a piece of cloth is flossed up your ass, do you really think it PREVENTS skid marks? May your eleven year old be a good wiper. [/TMI] Jeezus, did I just write that??? ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/13 "2002-05-22T22:26:15Z")
Christ, I’m 29 and I’d need a power washer to keep my thongs free of skids j ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/14 "2002-05-22T22:40:05Z")
That’s the exact reason why I don’t poop. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/15 "2002-05-22T22:49:28Z")
_Lighthearted and cute?_ Oh, right; nothing says lighthearted good clean fun like a nine-year-old in a thong marked “EYE CANDY.” Ow. I just rolled my eyes so hard I sprained something. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/16 "2002-05-22T23:04:14Z")
Thank God. I hoped it wasn’t just me. ---
**Author:** ![Wabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-and-fitch-is-officially-fucked-in-the-head/110359/17 "2002-05-22T23:21:37Z")
I’ll tell you what really scares me is that some parent is going to buy their kid this and not see anything wrong with it. These are the same folks who cake so much freakin make-up on their 8-year-olds that they look like racoons, and who think that child beauty pagents are a good thing. I really wish we’d let kids be kids…