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Coyle,#2UPDATE Employee
Fri, July 04, 2008
I have worked for Abercrombie & Fitch for four and a half years. I started at Hollister in Dallas, Texas when I was seventeen and now, at twenty-one, I am the manager at an A&F in Oklahoma. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma at the age of twenty with a degree in business, majoring in marketing and will begin OU Law School in August. I have seen the attacks on this company for years. The argument that A&F is pornographic is skewed. The retailer sells attractive clothing to collegiate young adults. We do not place thirteen year old on our marketing for a reason. If you look at Abercrombie (the children's store) and Hollister (for the high school crowd) owned by A&F you will see a much different atmosphere. We show beautiful bodies. Our associates are taught to be out-going and friendly in a self-confident manner. We seek to establish the reputation as people who live a fun-seeking, well educated, independent lifestyle. While I can understand the need for parents to protect their children from being exposed to content too explicit for their age, it is hard to understand why the attacks are against A&F and not against other retailers such as Victoria's Secret. Is it because we are used to seeing women as sex objects and not men? I doubt our greeters are wearing less than the supermodel in her lace panties. Whatever the reason the point is the same: A&F (like VS) does not want your thirteen year old to live the lifestyle we promote. Our associates and the core of our customers are the collegiate adults America has raised to be strong, confident, and the epitome of what enormous potential idealism in youth can create.
Brittany
Evansville,#3Consumer Comment
Tue, September 14, 2004
Whoever is trying to boycott Abercrombie is definitely a prude! Porn? Are you KIDDING me? If you don't like it, don't shop there, look at the website, or the catalogue. I have worked at Abercrombie for almost 5 years and obviously enough people like it to keep it in business. They do not advertise with porn. Yeah, you will see the occasional breast or butt, umm hello what year is it now? And you can't buy the catalogue if your under 18. They've even made it now to where their workers under 18 can't even recieve the catalogue (Everyone who is employed at Abercrombie gets it free) Get over yourselves and get a life. There is nothing wrong with this company.
Nancy
Phoenix,#4Consumer Comment
Mon, May 17, 2004
I just got home from church and started reading reports. I visited the URL given by the original poster and looked over the website of this clothing company. I was appalled! There wasn't any porn there .. not even any pr0n. (Geek speak for porn in online chat, if you haven't seen that spelling before.) Seriously, what is the problem with that website and the pictures on it? Men go around without shirts all the time and it's not illegal. I kiss my husband on the cheek in public (even at church where we sit close together in the front row with our arms around each other as we listen to the sermon) and that's also not illegal. Why are you whining about pictures of the same thing? Next I had my husband look at the website and also an online Christian friend. They both had the same impression of it that I did. None of us saw a thing wrong with it. We saw models in poses that you will see in almost all media that models are utilized.
Chelsey
[email protected],#5Consumer Comment
Sun, May 16, 2004
Oh yea, picture of a man and woman kissing, and a man laying in the sand. Serious hard core porno here! Someone alert the pope AT ONCE! Have you ever taken you children to a beach? LOL I have seen more porn on the evening news then on this website!