Abercrombie and Fitch stores in the mall UNAPPRECIATION

[b_low_brown]

I remember putting cacs onto A&F during my sophomore yr of HS with my ski coat I copped online...which was 2000.

Then I met this black chick during college who was the asst manager at the local af store. She had the "extreme hookup"...I got shearing denim jackets, pants, jeans for days from her.

I said hollister

& I'm talkin more specifically about my area, high school mostly
I shoulda specified

 

[luckyse7enz]

In college, I worked at a Christmas snow globe right outside of a Hollister and my boy & I used to chop it up with the managers there (a couple preppy/fashionable good-looking black chicks).

They'd tell us about the rules of working there and how you're only supposed to rock THEIR gear (flip-flops, tees, polos, jeans, etc.). No facial hair, hats, or earrings/gaudy jewelry. Their ads are kind of sexualized and they're all about having attractive, youthful, clean-cut staff.

Basically, the polar opposite of Hot Topic.

The culture's interesting as fukk because it's so strict and the owner's so bizarre. I peeped an article on the guy back in the day. Dude seems creepy...on some Peter Pan shyt.

The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch - Salon.com

:notsure:

Mike Jeffries, the 61-year-old CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, says “dude” a lot. He’ll say, “What a cool idea, dude,” or, when the jeans on a store’s mannequin are too thin in the calves, “Let’s make this dude look more like a dude,” or, when I ask him why he dyes his hair blond, “Dude, I’m not an old fart who wears his jeans up at his shoulders.”

This fall, on my second day at Abercrombie & Fitch’s 300-acre headquarters in the Ohio woods, Jeffries — sporting torn Abercrombie jeans, a blue Abercrombie muscle polo, and Abercrombie flip-flops — stood behind me in the cafeteria line and said, “You’re looking really A&F today, dude.” (An enormous steel-clad barn with laminated wood accents, the cafeteria feels like an Olympic Village dining hall in the Swiss Alps.) I didn’t have the heart to tell Jeffries that I was actually wearing American Eagle jeans. To Jeffries, the “A&F guy” is the best of what America has to offer: He’s cool, he’s beautiful, he’s funny, he’s masculine, he’s optimistic, and he’s certainly not “cynical” or “moody,” two traits he finds wholly unattractive.

Jeffries’ endorsement of my look was a step up from the previous day, when I made the mistake of dressing my age (30). I arrived in a dress shirt, khakis and dress shoes, prompting A&F spokesman Tom Lennox — at 39, he’s a virtual senior citizen among Jeffries’ youthful workforce — to look concerned and offer me a pair of flip-flops. Just about everyone at A&F headquarters wears flip-flops, torn Abercrombie jeans, and either a polo shirt or a sweater from Abercrombie or Hollister, Jeffries’ brand aimed at high school students.

Valued at $5 billion, the company now has revenues approaching $2 billion a year rolling in from more than 800 stores and four successful brands. For the kids there’s Abercrombie, aimed at middle schoolers who want to look like their cool older siblings. For high schoolers there’s Hollister, a wildly popular surf-inspired look for “energetic and outgoing guys and girls” that has quickly become the brand of choice for Midwestern teens who wish they lived in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Our first bump came when I mentioned the 2002 uproar over the company’s thongs for middle-school girls, which had “Eye Candy” and “Wink Wink” printed on their fronts. “That was a bunch of bullshyt,” he said, sweating profusely. “People said we were cynical, that we were sexualizing little girls. But you know what? I still think those are cute underwear for little girls. And I think anybody who gets on a bandwagon about thongs for little girls is crazy. Just crazy! There’s so much craziness about sex in this country. It’s nuts! I can see getting upset about letting your girl hang out with a bunch of old pervs, but why would you let your girl hang out with a bunch of old pervs?”

 

[yawn]

OP is on point.

The music is annoyingly loud and you can smell that freaking cologne on the other side of the hall. I took my nephew there once because he wanted some shirts, and I had to leave the store because the smell + the music was giving me a headache.

I couldn't imagine working there.

I agree with the smell part but I have a good memory about Abercrombie and Fitch.

Took my younger female cousin to shop but that future hoe wanted to ogle the sales boys. I walked in and saw a group of college age "ladies" around the sales guys. Gave the dudes a nod and the ladies turned to look, and a few flocked to me. Dated my first eurasian chick because of that

 

[Rusty Kuntz]

The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch - Salon.com

 

[director_of_bands]

Just out of curiosity, what store in the mall are you trying to get to?

macys

 

[Non Sequitur]

“That was a bunch of bullshyt,” he said, sweating profusely.

 

[Non Sequitur]

macys

Polo section?

 

[Tom Foolery]

Poser shyt.

@ $100 for some wrinkled ass dress shyt.

 

[director_of_bands]

Polo section?

levis 514s and of course polo

 

[Binary]

Overpriced sweatshop produced garbage for pretentious, silver spooned white kids. That being said, fukk A&F

 

[re'up]

I know a girl who worked there, I remember asking her about that crazy perfume smell, I would never really go in there, so I was like 'it's cool but strong, and too much' She said 'No, it's awful we have to spray it on the mannequins every hour or every half hour or some shyt, it gets in my clothes in my hair, I smell it at home' I didn't know it was like that....

 

[Mr210]

thumbs down to A/F

 

[director_of_bands]

Overpriced sweatshop produced garbage for pretentious, silver spooned white kids. That being said, fukk A&F

 

[Non Sequitur]

levis 514s and of course polo

 

[Binary]

I know a girl who worked there, I remember asking her about that crazy perfume smell, I would never really go in there, so I was like 'it's cool but strong, and too much' She said 'No, it's awful we have to spray it on the mannequins every hour or every half hour or some shyt, it gets in my clothes in my hair, I smell it at home' I didn't know it was like that....

Aroma/ambiance marketing.