Apparently the sack of crap CEO of awful mall store Abercrombie and Fitch, Mike Jeffries, said he doesn't like it when you fuglies shop at his stores. He said this to Salon back in 2006 but apparently it took seven years for his mean girl comments to set off a firestorm of outrage on the social media. Your Facebook and Twitter feeds are probably filled right now with righteous indignation over A&F's policy to only have their sweatshops make lady clothes in size 10 or smaller. Even former Cheers' star Kirstie Alley (not Diane, the other one) has decided to boycott this purveyor of homogenized suburban conspicuous consumption because it refuses to cater to the conspicuous consuming of homogenized suburbia's larger ladies.
What I've never understood is why anyone would pay top dollar to wear clothes with the retailer's logo plastered all over them. The fact that people are that stupid that they will pay good money to advertise for some company is amazing. Logowear is a huge scam...
Nothing wrong with being size 14 . . . but when that&#039;s the <i>average</i>, people are in a bad way. I know it&#039;s a mean, not a median, but it suggests that <i>half the population</i> is size 14 or bigger.
So plus-sized people cannot shop at A&amp;F anymore? And 67% of US consumers are plus-sized? Sounds like that boycott will just take care of itself then, doesn&#039;t it?
A&amp;F caters to the youth market, not to adults. So Mom? Chillax. Wearing Abercrombie &amp; Fitch clothes while driving the Mom Taxi is Not Cool. Stop trying to be your daughter.
Finally, who the hell thinks A&amp;F clothes are cool? Your kids? Right. So you&#039;ll no longer have that totally kick-ass look when you report to homeroom then, right?
What&#039;s horrifying is that the AVERAGE is size 14. I mean, wtf is going out there in the flyover states, that I keep flying over, and have less and less desire to do anything but fly over? How many megatons of corn syrup and Crisco are we pouring into these people?
If they save up two month&#039;s salary, they can. This would require that they not eat for two months, so that&#039;&#039;s another size down at least.
at least that story is entertaining- the continuing saga of the two pretentious douchebags who don&#039;t know when to shut up and quit digging...
What I&#039;ve never understood is why anyone would pay top dollar to wear clothes with the retailer&#039;s logo plastered all over them. The fact that people are that stupid that they will pay good money to advertise for some company is amazing. Logowear is a huge scam...
I graduated to keg long ago.
The one in SF was pretty cool for a department store.
this is the most embarrassing thing chicago has done in a while.
Nothing wrong with being size 14 . . . but when that&#039;s the <i>average</i>, people are in a bad way. I know it&#039;s a mean, not a median, but it suggests that <i>half the population</i> is size 14 or bigger.
Good point. For every adult over 300 lbs, there&#039;s not another who&#039;s under 80 lbs. The distribution is far from being a bell curve.
So plus-sized people cannot shop at A&amp;F anymore? And 67% of US consumers are plus-sized? Sounds like that boycott will just take care of itself then, doesn&#039;t it?
A&amp;F caters to the youth market, not to adults. So Mom? Chillax. Wearing Abercrombie &amp; Fitch clothes while driving the Mom Taxi is Not Cool. Stop trying to be your daughter.
Finally, who the hell thinks A&amp;F clothes are cool? Your kids? Right. So you&#039;ll no longer have that totally kick-ass look when you report to homeroom then, right?
Is there a <i>Forever 49</i> where I can get stuff and be cool?
Upfist. When I saw that guy&#039;s youtube (which was all over FB, blechh), I was like this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo&amp;t=...">http://www.youtube.com/watc...
What&#039;s horrifying is that the AVERAGE is size 14. I mean, wtf is going out there in the flyover states, that I keep flying over, and have less and less desire to do anything but fly over? How many megatons of corn syrup and Crisco are we pouring into these people?
I like your logic: it is marvelously self-serving and yet at the same time completely goofy and well-meaning. Do you by any chance own Whole Foods?
Because homeless people are naturally unattractive and gross, so using them as humorous props to shame the A&amp;F CEO is in no way despicable.
What do you expect from a nation whose response to 9/11 was &quot;if we stop shopping, the terrorists win&quot;?
If they save up two month&#039;s salary, they can. This would require that they not eat for two months, so that&#039;&#039;s another size down at least.
No one in America knows how to sew, so we&#039;d have to send them to Bangladesh.