# Abercrombie pisses me off **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855 "2003-08-22T03:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![killaapp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@killaapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/killaapp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/21 "2003-08-23T16:47:30Z")
get the needle and thread and make your own, better yet try the salvation army. you fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/22 "2003-08-23T19:34:32Z")
> [@](#): > > How come A&F has all of those good-looking kids for models? Ya know, the gals with huge hogans and the guys with big muscles…and nary a zit on any of em? The A&F people think you’ll buy more if you’re walking around their store with a hard-on. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/23 "2003-08-23T20:15:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fred \* > \*\*You guys are all retarded. \*\* No, _you’re_ retarded. WTF is your point? **Thaumaturge** ’s post could have been written by me. I don’t get the appeal of spending a shitload of money to advertise some company. They pay me, and I’ll start being a walking billboard. The only exceptions are my alma mater and the Giants. I wouldn’t want anyone to think I’m a Cubs or Sox fan, y’see. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/24 "2003-08-23T20:29:11Z")
I interpreted **Fred** ’s remark as bone-dry sarcasm, but maybe I was wrong? As to this record-hijack thing, I have seen and/or heard of a _lot_ of punk or indie releases (which often happen to be punk-ish in nature) on vinyl. Evidently it’s cheap to release upon these days. And…A&F just gives me a bad, insincere feeling in general. ---
**Author:** ![Deathstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Deathstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deathstatic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/25 "2003-08-23T20:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by killaapp \* > \*\*get the needle and thread and make your own, better yet try the salvation army. you fuck. \*\* Hmm… that sounds like a stab at poor people. Run on home to your pouty-lipped nancy boy fraternity friends and continue doing something blatantly homo-erotic. ---
**Author:** ![Soilcreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Soilcreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soilcreep)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/26 "2003-08-23T20:41:22Z")
These kids today, with their weird clothing and their crazy slang and their jazz music! To hell in a hand basket, that’s where we’re goin’, I tells ya! Seriously, these faded/stained pants make just as much sense as grunge, or acid washed jeans, or bell bottoms, or hoop skirts. Fashion isn’t supposed to make sense and it’s supposed to alienate people. Complaining about the idiocy of teenagers’ fads just means that you’re growing old and dying. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/27 "2003-08-23T20:44:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Run on home to your pouty-lipped nancy boy fraternity friends and continue doing something blatantly homo-erotic. Once again, I can’t wait to hear this one explained. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/28 "2003-08-23T20:46:40Z")
Deathstatic: You must’ve missed the “Peasant Garb” fad of the 1970s. As far as I can tell, this is just the 2003 version of it. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/29 "2003-08-23T20:58:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Complaining about the idiocy of teenagers’ fads just means that you’re growing old and dying. At age 21? ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/30 "2003-08-23T21:09:59Z")
And here I thought this thread was going to be about [Hawaii’s State Representative](http://www.house.gov/abercrombie/) to Congress. I have lots of pants that look like that. But only because I’ve been wearing them since I was the age of the targeted demographic… Why is a suggestion to shop at the Salvation Army a dig at poor people? I thought the same thing. (Er… just the thrift store suggestion, not the rest.) If you want clothes that look pre-used, why pay extra for them? Just buy pre-used clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Deathstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Deathstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deathstatic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/31 "2003-08-23T21:34:50Z")
I’m 22… I missed the “Peasant Garb” of the 70’s. Sounds like a real winner. Is that kind of like “derelicte” program Mogatu runs on Zoolander? ---
**Author:** ![Deathstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Deathstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deathstatic)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/32 "2003-08-23T21:38:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SparrowHawk \* > \*\*Why is a suggestion to shop at the Salvation Army a dig at poor people? I thought the same thing. (Er… just the thrift store suggestion, not the rest.) If you want clothes that look pre-used, why pay extra for them? Just buy pre-used clothes. \*\* The umm… “you fuck” at the end of the sentence kind of gave away that it was a dig on poor people. I doubt he was kindly offering a solution to the schmucks who might spend too much money on the retarded fad. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/33 "2003-08-23T22:57:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*At age 21? \*\* You’ve stopped growing old and dying at age 21? ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/34 "2003-08-24T01:13:46Z")
Doncha know? **Matt** is immortal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/35 "2003-08-24T03:10:17Z")
Fortunately, in my area (St. Louis), Abercrombie seems like it’s on the way out, passe’. Kids became smart enough to realize that Abercrombie is a waste of money, and wearing it doesn’t make you popular. Now you have to wear Hollister to be cool. What bothers me most about Hollister/Abercrombie/American Eagle/et al is that 90% of the shirts are pre-used looking, like someone said, or they have something like “Camp Wanataki 1975” or “Varsity Polo 1954” or “Property Westfield High” etc. It’s just so fake. Like it’s trying to make the wearer look like they’ve done cool stuff, like worked for “Joe’s Crab Shack” whatever. Or the hats they sell are all beat up, to make it look like it’s some old heirloom or you’ve led such an interesting life and your trusty cap’s seen every adventure. It just inspires a culture of fakeness. My sister always wears these things, like “Bob’s Grill 'n Eat, Minneapolis” and I’ll say “When were you in Minneapolis?” I don’t know if any of my examples are actually extant, but they’re similar. ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/36 "2003-08-24T04:12:18Z")
God, what a stupid OP. Take one part “I don’t share the same fashion taste as other people, so I will now call them names and say they are stupid for having a different fashion sense than me” and then add a little “it’s the _corporations_, man, that charge a lot of money for crap and convince people to buy it.” Then later the OP stretches a stupid comment into a perceived dig at poor people while simultaneously making a dig at homosexuals. Real classy, dude. The OP’s dumb any way you slice it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/37 "2003-08-24T04:49:38Z")
I always found it jarring, since Abercrotchme and Fuck became the mavens of Waif Slutqueen Fashion, to watch the M_A_S\*H episode where Winchester enters a tent in a fluorescent orange plaid hunting jacket and announces that it’s from Abercrombie and Fitch… ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/38 "2003-08-24T10:30:13Z")
> [@](#): > > - originally postes by ooga booga\* > Eventually one guy at the store made up a few T-shirts with a little “Aberzombie” logo on the front. They were GOOD…at a casual glance it looked like something you’d buy off the racks next door. I actually like this idea, but i don’t know if my embroidery skill is good enough to pull this off. This from a person who has one band tshirt that is screenprinted, and two work shirts that are embroidered. I could have a LOT of fun with this. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/39 "2003-08-24T10:58:54Z")
I always liked the idea of “Independent” apparel. Are they selling the idea that buying clothing with “Independent” on it makes the wearer indpenendent? Or is it selling the idea that you need a shirt to make sure everyone else knows your independent? Is it supposed to be ironic? ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855/40 "2003-08-24T14:51:31Z")
I could never buy anything from Abercrombie because I can never spend more than 10 minutes in one of their stores! I’ve never once been in an Ambercrombie when some rude ass salesperson hasn’t pissed me off. I think it’s part of their hiring process. Make sure you’ve got attitude coming out your ears before you can work there. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abercrombie-pisses-me-off/196855.md?page=3)