Are you an Abercrombie whore?

cson

Walking through College today.... absolutely fecking everyone is wearing it (or Hollister/AE). It's surely reached market saturation at this stage? Having said that I don't blame most of them, compared to the crap avalible in this country its positively haute couture.

I'm gonna have to admit to having a few bits of it myself too, the hoodies are just too comfy! :pac:

/Abercrombie prostitute :P

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cson wrote: »

Walking through College today.... absolutely fecking everyone is wearing it (or Hollister/AE). It's surely reached market saturation at this stage? Having said that I don't blame most of them, compared to the crap avalible in this country its positively haute couture.

I'm gonna have to admit to having a few bits of it myself too, the hoodies are just too comfy! :pac:

/Abercrombie prostitute :P

Dont own a shred of it, prefer it to tracksuits though

MIN2511

Love A&F!!!

Aisling(",)

not me dont own any abercrombie

nothing against it though they have lovely hoodies

eVeNtInE

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GrumPy

You cant even get on a bus these days without seeing someone wear it. :rolleyes:
Have one or two things but not a hoodie, you can get perfectly comfy hoodies without having A & F strewn across them.

Creamy Goodness

let me be the first to welcome you out of your bubble.

the year is 2008.

rizzla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-WzqfbVHU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-WzqfbVHU

Exactly what the shops are like in the states.

I wouldn't buy any of it. It's just to plain. I have my comfy hoodies already.

I am an Abercrombie whore.Its true.But only from the J1.Would not pay the prices in the uk for Abercrombie.

Acacia

Nah, far too expensive...

....And I'm not a member of the cast of 'The Hills'. Or a UCD student. :pac:

cson

Acacia wrote: »

....And I'm not a member of the cast of 'The Hills'. Or a UCD student. :pac:

Hey you should try UL on for size! I've yet to fail to lol everytime I hear a 'cultural' kerry accent and see its owner decked out in Abercrombies finest.

Acacia

cson wrote: »

Hey you try UL on for size! I've yet to fail to lol everytime I hear a 'cultural' kerry accent and see its owner decked out in Abercrombies finest.

Hehe, and when they try to fit Americanisms in, it just doesn't work with the accent. It must be even worse in Cork-

"Boi, I'd love a frappuchino, like!" :pac:

But really, I think every college has its own Abercrombie contingent.

cson

No americanisms at all, just kerry and cork-isms which makes it all the funnier

Flexing their muscles in the little Abercrombie sleeves while saying "Come eeeeeerrrrreeeee yah big langoooor yah d'we have to hop in dat assignment for tomorr-ah like?"

anonymous_joe

I've always found your man whose currently running the company a loathesome asshole. He actively encourages people to wear Abercrombie because it signifies that they're better than people who don't.

I do have an Abercrombie hoodie I had bought for me about 4 years or so ago at this stage.

And yeah UCD's stuffed full of the stuff. And Hollister and AE and the various derivatives.

Time Magazine

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I've always found your man whose currently running the company a loathesome asshole. He actively encourages people to wear Abercrombie because it signifies that they're better than people who don't.

That depends entirely on your judgement as to what makes one person "better" than the next. If your judgement on this in any includes whether or not their consumption of Abercrombie goods is higher than somebody else's, then by my compass you've utterly failed to grasp what life is about.

anonymous_joe

The Economist wrote: »

That depends entirely on your judgement as to what makes one person "better" than the next. If your judgement on this in any includes whether or not their consumption of Abercrombie goods is higher than somebody else's, then by my compass you've utterly failed to grasp what life is about.

More accurately - he was asked if he had any opinions on the fact that kids had been bullied for not having A + F clothes - and he responded by saying that those (the bullies) were the kind of people he wanted wearing his clothes. The athletes, the popular ones, etc, and he wanted them to bully people.

KnifeWRENCH

Don't own any A&F, but I'd like to go to one of their stores, just to see what it'd be like. If I saw a nice hoodie or t-shirt I'd prob. get it.

Overheal

So A&F is a brand, and not just what ye're calling posers these days?

hullaballoo

I remember a lot of the lads coming back from J1s telling me they worked in A&F over the Summer. One of my best mates is a scruffy arts student who would be...eh...'individual' in terms of his fashion sense. I jokingly asked him whether he too had worked in A&F. He said, 'yeah, man'.





Turns out they had him on the night shift with the other pastey cretins.

Piste

Nah, they're not nice enough to spend a load of money on or go to the bother of ordering online. Bit of an emporer's new clothes fad I think. I've nothing against them though, I don't look down on people who wear Abercrombie o actively dislike them, like some people.

JC 2K3

Nothing about their clothes is the slightest bit original, their hoodies don't look any more comfy than any other hoody, I abhor their marketing and advertising campaigns, I hate clothes that advertise companies on them in general, I'm not a fan of the "jock" stereotype they're marketed towards and they've been involved in lawsuits in the past for using slave labour. Also, I had the displeasure of being in one of their shops when in New York 2 years ago (my sister is into it), it was one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my life. It was dark, initimidating and had REALLY LOUD shíte music blaring.

I don't really have the "everyone who wears Abercrombie is a mindless idiot" mindset anymore, but they would be one of my least favourite companies...

Abercrombie offered us jobs when we were on our j1.Didn't take them as money was pretty ****.

JC 2K3

JC 2K3 wrote: »

and they've been involved in lawsuits in the past for using slave labour. ...

Actually,I never got the why everybody is against cheap labour in these poor countries.Like,the money seems small to us but to them,it might be their only chance of earning money even it is very little,plus this is encouraging growth in poor countries which is a good thing.I read a research paper on it once.I will try find it.

JC 2K3

There's a difference between cheap labour and the use of sweatshops, slave labour and exploitative labour practices.

From the 90s up until about 2004 when a lawsuit forced their closure, I think, Abercrombie used to operate sweatshops in Saipan (Alongside Ralph Lauren, Levi Strauss Calvin Klein and some others), which is an island which is governed by the United States (which meant they could put "Made in USA" labels on their clothing), but without the same labour laws as mainland USA. Aside from low pay and extremely long hours, there were reports of workers being forced to sign contracts waiving their human rights, forbidding them from practicing their religion, marrying or dating, forming unions and other such restrictions. There were also reports of physical and sexual abuse of workers and workers being forced to work "off the clock" or "volunteer" hours.

It's not as simple as people being happy to work for less in poorer countries.

It's also not as simple as a handful of companies employing these exploitative practices, and I'm sure a lot of the unbranded clothes I own have been produced unethically, but I can't bring myself to wear something that advertises a company which has been exposed to use such practices because it's "cool".

ironictoaster

Abercrombie sucks. All the clothes just have their brand plastered on it. I remember my brother telling that the huge abercrombie shop in New York is like a nightclub. Pitch black barely seeing the clothes as well as the loud techno music. I will say that their clothes are very quality and won't be in bits after a wash.

challengemaster

Whats an abercrombie?...

...

>_>

<_<


/leaves

Frisbee

If I know anyone going to America I usually give them money and get them to bring me back an Aeropostale hoodie or sweatpants.
As good quality as Abercrombie at a fraction of the price.

SarcasticFairy

I was wearing an Abercrombie hoodie today... mind you the actual A&F branding was covered with a scarf but whatever. I have two A&F hoodies, but I wouldn't actually go to the bother of ordering online or whatever, an ex boyfriend bought them both for me, in a bid to get me to 'fit in' with his asshole friends. Wouldn't put them on any higher a pedestal than any of my other clothes, just a warm hoodie really!

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Fad wrote: »

Dont own a shred of it, prefer it to tracksuits though

I forgot something

I own some counterfeit Abercrombie I bought in China for the laugh.

Child labour FTW!

JC 2K3

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

an ex boyfriend bought them both for me, in a bid to get me to 'fit in' with his asshole friends.

Lol, did he actually say that?

SarcasticFairy

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Lol, did he actually say that?

Not in so many words no, but it became quite obvious over time.... Whatever, there's a reason it's over :rolleyes:

Still, I hate him, but like, the hoodie is still nice

anonymous_joe

Know a lot of people who buy the A+F stuff to fit in/look cool. Especially in UCD. :rolleyes:

Das

I wear clothes I buy at the local shops for cheap as ****.

I've got no problems wearing it either.

Wearing something only because it's a brand name is a horrible thing to do.

rainbow kirby

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Know a lot of people who buy the A+F stuff to fit in/look cool. Especially in UCD. :rolleyes:

You're in Quinn, it's endemic up there.

I have never bought a piece of Abercrombie clothing, and I don't ever intend to. I just don't like the stuff, and I don't particularly like looking like every tosser in UCD that seems to be covered in it.

Funnily enough, where I am, the dress code seems to be "As long as you wore pants this morning it's OK".

cson

This is very interesting guys, there seems to be equal debate on both sides of the fence (even though most of you seem to be against it per se).

While I don't find it incredible any more (unlike in my youth :P) that a corporate brand can captivate a genre so much, I find it heartening that enoguh of you pay little attention to "fitting in" as such.

Personally, I won't lie; I have plenty of Abercrombie/Hollister/AE gear. Absolutely whack loads of it. Part of it is trying to fit in but tbh more of it is because I like their gear, it fits into my style (the small sleeves help my petit biceps ) and that most of the alternative gear in Ireland is ****e.

The Corporate argument is an interseting one, one which I would have found myelf vehemently against in my younger years but now I see as part of the world and sadly a world which one can have very little effect on.

Insect Overlord

I worked in an Irish College for 6 weeks over the summer (2x 3-week courses) and during the first course it was remarkable just how prolific the Abercrombie brand has become. There's something very wrong when literally more than 50% of the students in a hall of 110 are wearing the same "uniform" during the summer holidays! It was creepy...

Coincidentally, the group of students in that first 3 weeks were officially the worst group I've ever experienced in that college, out of the 6 groups I've been in/worked with. Abercrombie must be to blame!

In fairness,the CEO of A+F is a dick and very creepy too.
He is like trying to be O Leary but not pull it off.

anonymous_joe

Deleted User wrote: »

In fairness,the CEO of A+F is a dick and very creepy too.
He is like trying to be O Leary but not pull it off.

He's truly horrendously jaw-droppingly unpleasant. ^^

Anyone who says he wants bullies and jocks to wear their clothes...

Ricky91t

Never even heard of it,and the fact some of you mention kerry girls wearing it,I must know all the others that don't cause i'v never seen a hoodie with that written on it..

Davidius

I don't even know what it looks like.

All I know is that people talk about it a lot when talking about clothes.

And conversations about clothes tend to bore me. :pac:

Fast_Mover

I think I own about two A+F hoddies/two Hollister hoddies..bought them when I was in America for the summer last year..they're so comfy! Great to throw on over a pair of O'Neills when you're just after rolling out of bed/late for college.

Can't do that anymore though..damn real world/professional job!:(

seamus-2k7

I have one a&f but i don't wear it.
First reason is d4 snobheads are the scum of the earth follewd by scumbags, fact. I do my best to avoid them. Im not saying all a&f wearers are d4 heads, just most of them.
Second reason is there is plenty of cheaper, better clothes to be had.
Third is the whole manufacturing process.

bythewoods

I wouldn't buy Abercrombie stuff, ever.

I don't even own any hoodies. At all.
Not my thing, I'm more of a cardigan-waering, dressing-decently kind of person. I own 2 tracksuit bottoms, and they've never been anywhere but the gym.

I don't get why people buy A&F stuff? It's not particularly nice tbh, it's just extremely boring. Yet expensive.

Piste

seamus-2k7 wrote: »

I have one a&f but i don't wear it.
First reason is d4 snobheads are the scum of the earth

No insulting mods -_-

anonymous_joe

D4 snobs are people too.

bythewoods

anonymous_joe wrote: »

D4 snobs are people too.

I doubt that.

Piste

Aw well I'm not a snob, but I go to school in D4, hang out with people from D4 and have a slightly milder version of the accent (which becomes more pronounced the drunker I get).

It doesn't make me a bad person!

bythewoods

Piste wrote: »

Aw well I'm not a snob, but I go to school in D4, hang out with people from D4 and have a slightly milder version of the accent (which becomes more pronounced the drunker I get).

It doesn't make me a bad person!

Do you wear a plethora of fake tan? That's all i need to know :P

Nah, tbh, I don't really have a problem with D4s. Everyone tells me I talk like a D4 actually (Oh, the shame!) despite the fact that I live in Wexford.
Seriously, like. OMG.

anonymous_joe

bythewoods wrote: »

I doubt that.

Tsk tsk.

Piste wrote: »

Aw well I'm not a snob, but I go to school in D4, hang out with people from D4 and have a slightly milder version of the accent (which becomes more pronounced the drunker I get).

It doesn't make me a bad person!

Ah schools in D4 did have an effect on one's accent. As does living there. :pac:

Piste

bythewoods wrote: »

Do you wear a plethora of fake tan? That's all i need to know :P

Nah, tbh, I don't really have a problem with D4s. Everyone tells me I talk like a D4 actually (Oh, the shame!) despite the fact that I live in Wexford.
Seriously, like. OMG.

Fake tan doesn't suit me at all, I'm too naturally pale so I don't bother.

rainbow kirby

anonymous_joe wrote: »

D4 snobs are people too.

Keep telling yourself that