<p>It's a store. If you don't like it, then don't shop there. I don't understand why people feel the need to bash the store and the people that shop there, just because they don't like it.</p>
<p>vineyard vines, brooks brothers, and j crew are some of the brands considered as true prep. american eagle, hollister and such arent really considered as prep</p>
<p>To the guy working for Abercrombie & Fitch:</p>
<p>Tell your outlet (if this is the case, and it probably is) to hire people with manners. It'll make more money.</p>
<p>Also, it's not the All-American look, it's the All-Anglo look, get it right. I bet you FUBU reaches more people. Ok, so not FUBU, or not Rocawear, but the last mall outlet I went into selling urban clothing at least offered me breathable gases...</p>
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<p>Good point. We're bitter cause we're not one of the cool kids. However, the idea of a label selling a lifestyle (especially when using customers as walking advertisements) is repulsive. It's the decay of the individual in our culture. We each give ourselves the illusion that we're less like the next person when in fact, we keep growing in common with everyone around us.</p>
<p>"Want your own look and personality? Come to our outlets and buy our cheap sweatshop clothing worn by these Communications majors-turned-models to let everyone know who you are."</p>
<p>No one buys by labels for style, they buy for lifestyle. That's lazy, but fine with me. Just buy the least generic and highest quality stuff there is. I despise the kid with Ralph Lauren polos and vests to match, but I'm just jealous of his wallet, not sick of his mindless conformity.</p>
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<p>You are an abomniation on mankind.</p>
<p>Ok, for all of you out there who need to constantly insist that A&F, Hollister, etc. aren't prep. IT DOES'T matter. Ur just starting to sound like arrogant...PREPS. lol. Anyways, I feel like a lot of the anti A&F people are the same people who refuse to listen to top 40 music, hate MTV, and are overall anti pop culture just cuz. Almost as if ur better than the people who r into pop culture and you just want to be better, and "original" (yeah right, you and all of the other non-conformists who listen to the same music, wear the same clothes and enjoy the same activities). I'm just kinda sick of it and so are all of the other people who accept and embrace pop culture. (oh and BTW, we're the majority, that's why it's called POP culture, cuz it's POPular, and a lot of people like it :D ).</p>
<p>If I offended anyone...it was intended, cuz I'm kinda sick of it.</p>
<p>that was b!tchy. lol</p>
<p>To jsmall:</p>
<p>I know I sound like an elitist. It's just that, they're bad businessmen and women!</p>
<p>What company tells employees to shun the fat and the disfigured? If someone told me to go to the back of the bus circa 1955, not only would I be ****ed enough to not ride with that transportation group again, I would be confused!</p>
<p>Don't they want to treat customers nicely just for their money, if not for anything else?</p>
<p>Why do they tend to hire employees with pipes up their asses and personalities like rocks? I never go into other fahsion outlets with a customer service issue that's as consistent as the one at A&F and its sub-divisions.</p>
<p>When MAD TV makes you look bad, you've done something wrong.</p>
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<p>After I read that, I know you had no valid point. Learn to type before you rant about how "POP culture" has eaten your soul.</p>
<p>I'm sure that they're not as bad business men and women as you may think. As a matter of fact, they're a pretty damn successful clothing company (they have an entire thread on CC dedicated to them). They do what they need to to make money and as far as I can see it's working pretty well for them. I'm sure they don't need any extra money, and perhaps shunning not so great looking people attracts the better looking people so that they buy more. (That sounds terrible...because it is....but oh, well). Like someone else said, if you don't like them then move on. </p>
<p>Oh, and they hire people like that, because dumb good looking people are more prevalent than smart good looking people. (that sounds like a joke, but it's true, not everyone has everything going for them). </p>
<p>Oh and MAD TV makes fun of a lot of things that aren't always bad. (Such as Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" vidoe. That video is actually very positive, but they still made fum of it, therefore your whole "When MAD TV makes you look bad, you've done something wrong." deal isn't really true. </p>
<p>-PEACE</p>
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<p>But anyways, I agree most of my post was just babble, but the part about the "non-conformist" and how they really ARE conforming..and the part about how know one cares whether or not A&F is preppy< were valid. b!0tcH</p>
<p>^ Despite how much I hate the lack or morality in the clothing stores, they are without a doubt brilliant. It is a subliminal brainwashing, earning them millions of dollars of profit a year. They send 2 dimensional, big boobed chicks or hunky guys to rant about how amazing their store is, making them rich and the naive folk blind and trapped.</p>
<p>I was about to talk about how its just clothes and that people should just wear whatever they want whether its abercrombie or its not. I was going to say that its stupid that people make such stereotypes over clothing like people think that their arrogant and better than you by wearing a certain brand when maybe they just like the clothes, but reading House of London's post had to stop me from saying that. He just made himself and everyone working at an abercrombie seem like a total ******bag</p>
<p>Lol, jsmall, it took you like 6 minutes to write that. Cool beans, you wasted "ur" life.</p>
<p>WHOA...look at this thread. i see posts 200 lines long and...gee ppl...it's just a discussion about a store. what's w/ all this crazy venting?</p>
<p>there r clearly ppl who like to wear abercrombie clothes (like me), and ppl who don't. big deal. why do we all have to talk so...idk, philosophical (for a lack of a better word) about it? i really want to say, 'grow up'. </p>
<p>accept others for for they ARE, not what they wear. true, a lot of the abercrombie models/"fans" are phony and...i guess airheaded, stereotypically. but there are others who are not. who are u to judge?</p>
<p>^Lol, jsmall sent you, with your "r"s and "ppl"s and "idk"s. Lol, you make me laugh.</p>
<p>Oh, and rmadden....it's "I knEw you had no valid point."</p>
<p>^ It's actually called "irony." It is also called "hilarious" that you went through my posts to find some kind of material against me. Good Job, kudos for the effort.</p>
<p>Wow...This thread has gotten icky...But I cannot stop posting...DARN YOU ABERCROMBIE!!!!</p>
<p>Anyway, Jsmall, I again need to separate Abercrombie haters into different categories. You address the people who are nonconformists or are "uncool" in some way. Sure, there are those and I don't feel that their arguments are always valid.</p>
<p>However, you are completely ignoring the huge chunk of the population that doesn't like Abercrombie yet is still completely normal. The false dichotomy is just untrue. Being normal and disliking Abercrombie are not mutually exclusive. I despise it, but just spent 20 dollars yesterday updating my iPod (I Kissed a Girl and Disturbia anyone). I'm pretty conformist in many ways. So are 100+ people I know. Please don't stereotype people in order to find an easier way to "discredit" them.</p>
<p>I get sick of Amercrombie's repetitiveness, but I shop there from time to time. No strong feeling either way. They have pretty great jeans, but I like my Diesels more.</p>
<p>P.S. Disturbia is playing over and over in my head.</p>
<p>Diesels=teh win. They are so comfy. I love them.</p>