Abercrombie & Fitch

[captain_slinky]

You've probably already heard about the Abercrombie & Fitch controversy, and how they won't make clothes for fat people because fat people aren't cool, right? Well I'm here to say that I wholeheartedly agree with them on this, and support their right to cater to the thin, popular, pretty people of the world.

I also support the right of non-thin, non-popular, non-pretty, non-Abrcrombie people (like myself) to go to the food court, get a giant soda and a Cinnabon the size of their head, and just stand right outside the entrance to Abercrombie & Fitch to just STARE at each and every one of those customers and comment to each other about how pretty and popular and skinny those folks look.

I support our right to breathe through our mouths while we do this, and our right to look and act as creepy as we like while gawking at the pretty popular folks.

Comments

[dagna76.livejournal.com]

I actually just LoLed. Is that the store in the mall with the live models in the doorway?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Sometimes? It's the store with all the close-up posters of shirtless guys, and it always smells like somebody dropped a case of cheap cologne...

[valerie-valerah.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, excellent. I'd like to add going in and trying on the too small clothes just to stretch them out and get grease stains on them.

[aurora77]

I feel pretty good about my current body shape and size. I'm within the "healthy" range and all that. Still, I can't fit into most of their clothes. But I don't really want to shop there in the first place because it's not my style.

They make their clothes slightly smaller. Some other high end stores make theirs slightly larger. I've tried on pants supposedly several sizes different on the same day and both fit. The larger size number was from more of an a A&F-type store. The smaller size number was from Nordstrom Rack.

Oh, and did you know that men's sizes aren't really measured in inches anymore? A size 40 pant used to have a standard 40" waist. Now, they're upping it as far as 4-5" so that a size 40 could really be 44-45". It crept up as the average waist size went up. It has prevented some men from realizing they're gaining weight because, you know, they still wear a size X, not realizing it's X+4.

Being a person who sews and who has bought and sold clothing online, I appreciate knowing measurements. Measurements don't lie. Sizes and clothing manufacturers totally do. I would support moving totally to measurements. If you tell me the chest, waist, hip, length, inseam, etc. measurement, I'll be able to tell you if it would reasonably fit me because I can easily figure out my measurements and compare them. It would mean less time spent shopping and trying clothes on and less frustration at the variables in sizing.

I'm babbling. I must be tired. I should go to bed. I hope you had a good birthday yesterday!

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

I support the right to laugh at the teens that shop in A&F and buy their over-priced items with Mom & Dads' money. In a few years, when they have to pay for it themselves, A&F will lose their customers. I tell my nephews that they could get those $50 faded, razor cut jeans for a lot less. All they have to do is go down to the thrift store, pay $2 and apply the razor cuts themselves. Heck, they could even do it to jeans they already have.