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The Abercrombie Situation

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  • #32
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,347 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I quite like Diesel clothing and I get really quite annoyed when people confuse it with the shite that is pedalled from the "Diesel" stores in Ireland.


  • #33
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    A&F is cheap quality and horrible looking sh1te

    Any clothing line that has their brand name plastered all over their clothes is tacky and certainly in noway fashionable or stylish.


  • #34
    Koltashe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Koltashe


    weiland79 wrote: »
    'It's the experience and status you are getting'


    Yeah you need to stop talking now.

    I did not say I bought the bag for the experience and status, its the marketing idea behind all high priced items, same goes for newer versions of lap tops, all Apple products, luxury cars etc...

    Nissan Micra performs all the same functions as BMW X5 does (ie getting you from A to B) yet many who can afford it will chose the BMW.


  • #35
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,124 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    deadanonymau5 wrote: »
    WTF they had a ranges of Jersey Shore t-shirts. i saw them on their site ages ago. For some reason IMG tags wont work
    Oh, that's classic - never knew that! Sounds like a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

    PS: IMG embedding is disabled in AH. I think the mods are concerned about folks embedding images from ********** or the like. :eek:

    PPS: I can't even mention that site here without it being censored - that's how bad it got, I guess ..!

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #36
    figarofigaro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭figarofigaro


    Koltashe wrote: »
    A fake wouldn't last that long as quality tends to be sh@t.

    10 fake ones would last quite a while though. In all seriousness though, it's your money and it's nobody's business how you spend it.


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  • #37
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Koltashe wrote: »
    So frustrating I paid 500 euro for a bag and two days later I pass a scumbag with that same bag grrr...

    Each to their own but I can't comprehend losing a bag and being more concerned with its cost than the items inside.


  • #38
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Abercrombie worried that knobends wear their clothes? I though you that was a requirement. What next, Celtic worried that scumbags are wearing their jerseys?


  • #39
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Abercrombie worried that knobends wear their clothes? I though you that was a requirement. What next, The Queen's Celtic worried that scumbags are wearing their jerseys?

    fyp, that's what they like to be called.


  • #40
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    bnt wrote: »
    PPS: I can't even mention that site here without it being censored - that's how bad it got, I guess ..!
    what site?


  • #41
    skregs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭skregs


    A&F have been a scobie brand for a few years now anyway.

    "I pure got cheap flights to New York and brang back a load of Abercrombie T-Shirts. Now I look massive."

    Who wants to be associated with that?


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  • #42
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    How much love did the guy who spent all his dole on sky sports and movies this morning get? answer: sh*tloads, this girl spends a similiar portion of her income on a luxury item she wants and gets wailed on. Why is that I wonder, cause she actually has a few bob to throw around? Jealous much?


  • #43
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Junior cert forum?


  • #44
    Neyite
    Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    http://www.everydaymoney.ca/2010/08/coach-tries-to-unbrand-snooki-by-sending-her-rivals-gear-report.html

    Miaow!


  • #45
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    J. Marston wrote: »
    What a bunch of snobby bastards.

    Free publicity.


  • #46
    muckwarrior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭muckwarrior


    mackg wrote: »
    How much love did the guy who spent all his dole on sky sports and movies this morning get? answer: sh*tloads, this girl spends a similiar portion of her income on a luxury item she wants and gets wailed on. Why is that I wonder, cause she actually has a few bob to throw around? Jealous much?

    It's nothing to do with how much money she spent. It's her belief that owning an item with a certain label on it can add to her "status" that I find ridiculous.


  • #47
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Koltashe wrote: »
    When you pay that much its not just the bag you are buying, its the experience and the 'status' you are getting. Some people buy a new bag every month for 30 quid, I choose to buy one or two a year. A fake wouldn't last that long as quality tends to be sh@t.

    You've been brainwashed. Please stand in front of the retractable boot which will repeated kick you in the arse until you realise that you are being conned by gay men.

    Also the material in expensive stuff for females such as shoes, dresses and bags is rarely any better than the material/stitching in the cheaper stuff. The cheap stuff is the same stuff that was expensive two months ago. Clothing for women can be 90% cheaper after a month or two.

    Paying €450 just so that you have a few weeks of telling people how much you spent on a new bag just seems [INSERT DEROGATORY ADJECTIVE HERE].


  • #48
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,124 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    Free publicity.
    Very expensive publicity, actually: A&F's share price has fallen by over 8% today so far, since this story broke. Oops ...

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #49
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    bnt wrote: »
    Very expensive publicity, actually: A&F's share price has fallen by over 8% today so far, since this story broke. Oops ...

    I doubt a 9% decrease will be attributed to soley to this story.

    A&F are retarded. I bet the vast majority of their customers/investors had no clue that the Situation was wearing their clothes, now they know because A&F started harping on about it.


  • #50
    Wolflikeme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Wolflikeme


    I like Abercrombie and Fitch - it means really fat people can't wear the same clothes as me. :rolleyes:


  • #51
    Dman001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    I don't get it. Cos if you walk into A&F or even Hollister (owned by Abercrombie) you see tall, well built and tanned models/shop assistants wearing their clothes? It's like walking onto the set of Jersey Shore when you walk into their stores.


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  • #52
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Wolflikeme wrote: »
    I like Abercrombie and Fitch - it means really fat people can't wear the same clothes as me. :rolleyes:

    Fat people cant wear hoodies that have a big "A&F" on the front?


  • #53
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Any truth in the rumour It's an acronym for Aspirational and F+ckwitted?


  • #54
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    I didn't even know who Abercrombie was until I saw them on a BBC documentary last month. Form what I saw they are a bit wanky just like all the other brands out there.

    Here's a link to the doc if you have to time, it's a bit of an eye opener



  • #55
    parc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭parc


    i know a girl who went out and bought a handbag with her first paycheck after college. it cost a grand

    fair enough, it's her money, but I actually think its massively retarded to spend that money on a ****ing bag...what are you thinking woman


  • #56
    Wolflikeme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Wolflikeme


    Hazys wrote: »
    Fat people cant wear hoodies that have a big "A&F" on the front?

    Not sure A&F make clothes for the more robust....that was the point of my post. At least the last time I was in their NYC store they didn't..


  • #57
    Wolflikeme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Wolflikeme


    parc wrote: »
    what are you thinking woman


    "I'm just like those sluts women in Sex and the City!"


  • #58
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    recylingbin wrote: »
    what site?
    **********.com


  • #59
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,124 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    recylingbin wrote: »
    what site?
    Daemos wrote: »
    **********.com
    Put it this way: the name started with "goats", but it had no pictures of goats on there (as far as I know). It's long gone now - shut down without a single objection. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #60
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    Wolflikeme wrote: »
    Not sure A&F make clothes for the more robust....that was the point of my post. At least the last time I was in their NYC store they didn't..

    On their website they sell XXL sizes and US sizes are usually one size bigger than Europe also. Anyways i digress.


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  • #61
    Wolflikeme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Wolflikeme


    Hazys wrote: »
    On their website they sell XXL sizes and US sizes are usually one size bigger than Europe also. Anyways i digress.

    XXL in A&F = XL here. Just going by my experience in that shop.


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