As I said, I have some nice T-Shirts and vest from them, but they didn't come already beat up. They didn't cost too much either. I've had them for years. However, people still are always calling me a preppy, yuppie product of terrible pop culture.
IT'S JUST A STORE PEOPLE! It's not like they make terrible poor quality stuff, or they're marketing is false or anything.
Well personally, i don't like being someone's walking billboard. these new mall store emphesize their brand name too much in the same vein that Nike puts it's huge swoosh on everything it makes (not even discretely; do they think we're cattle and need to be branded?). They may make some fine clothing but i think they can make it stylish without huge logos. When i need to get some nice slacks and shirts for work, I do shop at Structure because i like the look and I don't have to wear the brand name on my chest. (nice sweaters there!) But some people actually like the branding and more power to them!
Whatever's clean......which is usually denim shorts (even in the dead of winter) and a T-Shirt. Which can either be a bright, hazard orange (but not raver), or a nice, polo-type shirt.
<strong>I usuly were my trusty edie bower jeans and a plad button up t-shit.
I am not into those stupid A+F gear. I do not get it. Why would you pay more for some one to spill dye on your pants, sand blast them and then rip them. Or For some one to frey the bill of you hat to make it look like you and your hat have been throgh everything to gether when you just boght it yesterday.
I would rather just get a new hat and pair of pants and were them out my self, and save money. </strong><hr></blockquote>
that is exactly my thoughts. Except i wear one of my two pairs of GAP jeans with a t-shirt and a button up plaid shirt..(it is winter)..of course, I will not forget my trusly Dultuh Pack hat.
<strong>Well personally, i don't like being someone's walking billboard. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes me to walking bill boards are stupid. Clothing brands try to turn there logo into a fation statment so a white T-shit with there logo on is is sudenly hip.
Of cours I do not mind walking about in my OS X T-Shirt carrying my iBook with a glowing apple on it.
<strong>I usuly were my trusty edie bower jeans and a plad button up t-shit.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What in the sweet googley moogley is a "plad button up t-shit"?!?
I don't think I want to see it. EVER!
That's the funniest damn sentence I've probably read in at least two years.
But seriously, "shit" aside, what IS a plaid button-up T-SHIRT? Aren't those mutually exclusive? Like an overshirt? I'm always wearing a white T-shirt with a plaid or flannel button shirt over it, untucked. Is that what you mean?
MichaelM's post had me laughing out loud for a good two minutes. If you can't come to the AI boards for a good laugh then where can you go?!
Anyway, to join into the mass of postings:
I can't stand logos or writing on my clothes. At all. Drives me nuts. I blame <a href="http://www.adbusters.org"; target="_blank">AdBusters</a> for opening my eyes to the evil cow-like branding of consumers by clothing manufacturers and advertising corporations. If I have a gigantic "cK" on my shirt, I want Calvin to pay ME $100 a day to wear it. Or something like that.
Anyway, I really like the clothes from Club Monaco, up here in Canada they have a seemingly-ridiculous number of stores compared to how few locations there are in the US. But if you have one, take a look. A tad overpriced but it's not that bad.
I'm not that brand-loyal (with the obvious exception of Apple) so I have no real regular stores. Just as long as the clothes aren't fluorescent, have a billboard's worth of ads on them, made out of some plastic-leather-garbage-bag-hybrid material or glow in the dark, I'm happy.
-Y
Edit: The URL for Club Monaco's site is: <a href="http://www.clubmonaco.com"; target="_blank">www.clubmonaco.com</a> (Who'dathunkit?)
Oh, and despite the fact I've been reading and posting in the AI forums for years, due to having to re-make my account so often it says I only have 13 posts. But really, I'm not a newbie! Really!
Living in Canada and having not spent much time in US-retail stores. This Ambercombie & Fitch company seems a little odd. First 60 Minutes (I think it was 60M anyway) was going on about their catalogue being borderline pornogaphy and being mailed out in sealed plastic.
Then I looked at their site where all the photos showed people who looked 12 seconds away from jumping each other. Is that the whole point of this company? "Our clothes are cool because hot and horny people (like our models) wear them! If you pay [mass exagerrations]$60 for a T-shirt[/end mass exagerrations] you'll be hot too!"
Or am I missing something? Yes, I know sex sells, and every clothing company (except maybe companies that <a href="http://www.cennet.co.uk/clothes.html"; target="_blank">sell clothes for seniors</a>) uses some form of sexy ad campaign. But does A&F try to walk, or even, cross that border between run-of-the-mill sexy ads and near-illegal-unless-you-are-over-18 softcore porn ads?
I dunno. It's 3:40am and I'm ranting about a clothing company who's store I've never been in. Oy.
My work mate told me he's got a pair of boxer shorts with tiny Santas, Robert-Red-Noses, and candles on it. He was referring to that as "sexy". :eek:
He also wears a Tommy Hilfiger jacket with the Hilfiger logo and writing on it from shoulder to shoulder. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
My weak spot regarding brands is Wrangler, as they were the only company that had those best fitting jeans for me. Now they ceased to produce that type. I'm stuck!
The current fashion of dyed and scrubbed jeans is horrible! $100 for pre scrubbed junk?
Don't get me wrong. Clothing companies have all the right to put their brand on their clothes... just be discreet about it. A leather patch on the waist line, a small patch on the chest or bottom hem of the shirt cool. But I've seen those huge Tommy Hilfiger logos on jackets. [shudder]
I like soft old jeans. They feel great. I have to wear khakis to work so I get the dockers ones because it doesn't feel like I'm wearing something stiff.
My work mate told me he's got a pair of boxer shorts with tiny Santas, Robert-Red-Noses, and candles on it. He was referring to that as "sexy". :eek:
He also wears a Tommy Hilfiger jacket with the Hilfiger logo and writing on it from shoulder to shoulder. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
My weak spot regarding brands is Wrangler, as they were the only company that had those best fitting jeans for me. Now they ceased to produce that type. I'm stuck!
The current fashion of dyed and scrubbed jeans is horrible! $100 for pre scrubbed junk?
There's absolutely nothing worse or more lame in the world than spending some wild-ass amount of money for jeans that come off the rack looking as though you've had them for ages (rips, tears, frayed, etc.).
Just do what I do: buy a comfortable, well-fitting pair of Levis and wear the hell out of them for a year, washing them every chance you get, and get that look the natural way.
I hate that current look that lots of chicks are wearing with the SUPER tight and dark jeans with the blatant faded/washed-out "stripes" down the front leg/thigh.
There's just something silly about paying money to get something that you could get for free with just a little time.
Kind of like someone living on the 9th floor of an apartment house and then spending money for a gym membership so they can use the StairMaster.
And yes, I know someone who does that very exact thing...
When I asked them why they just didn't take the stairs when they got home they replied:
"Well, how am I supposed to know how many calories I've burned and what my heartrate is, and at the gym I can vary my resistance, and my personal trainer is so cute that...
Oh - ho!
Y'know I've met more interesting people in stairwells than in gyms, but that's just me.
<strong>My work mate told me..... </strong><hr></blockquote>
, sorry that this got posted twice. Opera(most recent X version) crashed into my face the fifth time now and seems to send at random.I've switched to OMNI now ...... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
I like those old jeans which have faded by wear and tear. But my second pair like that was so unfair as to twitch while I was climbing a ladder. Much to the amusement of my work mates.
Need I point out the place where they cracked?
Gosh! I was lucky to wear something decent under to protect my behind from alien eyes!
What is the general census here regarding women's shoes with high heels? Aye or nay?
(I am not so tall as to match the average Californian girl, not even with 2" heels, so I like to know)
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As I said, I have some nice T-Shirts and vest from them, but they didn't come already beat up. They didn't cost too much either. I've had them for years. However, people still are always calling me a preppy, yuppie product of terrible pop culture.
IT'S JUST A STORE PEOPLE! It's not like they make terrible poor quality stuff, or they're marketing is false or anything.
<strong>I usuly were my trusty edie bower jeans and a plad button up t-shit.
I am not into those stupid A+F gear. I do not get it. Why would you pay more for some one to spill dye on your pants, sand blast them and then rip them. Or For some one to frey the bill of you hat to make it look like you and your hat have been throgh everything to gether when you just boght it yesterday.
I would rather just get a new hat and pair of pants and were them out my self, and save money.
that is exactly my thoughts. Except i wear one of my two pairs of GAP jeans with a t-shirt and a button up plaid shirt..(it is winter)..of course, I will not forget my trusly Dultuh Pack hat.
:cool:
<strong>Well personally, i don't like being someone's walking billboard. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes me to walking bill boards are stupid. Clothing brands try to turn there logo into a fation statment so a white T-shit with there logo on is is sudenly hip.
Of cours I do not mind walking about in my OS X T-Shirt carrying my iBook with a glowing apple on it.
<strong>I usuly were my trusty edie bower jeans and a plad button up t-shit.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What in the sweet googley moogley is a "plad button up t-shit"?!?
I don't think I want to see it. EVER!
That's the funniest damn sentence I've probably read in at least two years.
But seriously, "shit" aside, what IS a plaid button-up T-SHIRT? Aren't those mutually exclusive? Like an overshirt? I'm always wearing a white T-shirt with a plaid or flannel button shirt over it, untucked. Is that what you mean?
Anyway, to join into the mass of postings:
I can't stand logos or writing on my clothes. At all. Drives me nuts. I blame <a href="http://www.adbusters.org"; target="_blank">AdBusters</a> for opening my eyes to the evil cow-like branding of consumers by clothing manufacturers and advertising corporations. If I have a gigantic "cK" on my shirt, I want Calvin to pay ME $100 a day to wear it. Or something like that.
Anyway, I really like the clothes from Club Monaco, up here in Canada they have a seemingly-ridiculous number of stores compared to how few locations there are in the US. But if you have one, take a look. A tad overpriced but it's not that bad.
I'm not that brand-loyal (with the obvious exception of Apple) so I have no real regular stores. Just as long as the clothes aren't fluorescent, have a billboard's worth of ads on them, made out of some plastic-leather-garbage-bag-hybrid material or glow in the dark, I'm happy.
-Y
Edit: The URL for Club Monaco's site is: <a href="http://www.clubmonaco.com"; target="_blank">www.clubmonaco.com</a> (Who'dathunkit?)
Oh, and despite the fact I've been reading and posting in the AI forums for years, due to having to re-make my account so often it says I only have 13 posts. But really, I'm not a newbie! Really!
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Living in Canada and having not spent much time in US-retail stores. This Ambercombie & Fitch company seems a little odd. First 60 Minutes (I think it was 60M anyway) was going on about their catalogue being borderline pornogaphy and being mailed out in sealed plastic.
Then I looked at their site where all the photos showed people who looked 12 seconds away from jumping each other. Is that the whole point of this company? "Our clothes are cool because hot and horny people (like our models) wear them! If you pay [mass exagerrations]$60 for a T-shirt[/end mass exagerrations] you'll be hot too!"
Or am I missing something? Yes, I know sex sells, and every clothing company (except maybe companies that <a href="http://www.cennet.co.uk/clothes.html"; target="_blank">sell clothes for seniors</a>) uses some form of sexy ad campaign. But does A&F try to walk, or even, cross that border between run-of-the-mill sexy ads and near-illegal-unless-you-are-over-18 softcore porn ads?
I dunno. It's 3:40am and I'm ranting about a clothing company who's store I've never been in. Oy.
-Y
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1. Expensive Boutiques (like the Abercrombie and Fitch)charge you up-the-wazoo to wear clothes you could pick up at the Salvation Army.
2. People who are insecure about being "cool" "hip" and "with-the-in-crowd" use brands as status markers with their peers.
3. Jeans and a T-shit (i mean shirt) never go out of style. No matter who makes them.
'nuff said
He also wears a Tommy Hilfiger jacket with the Hilfiger logo and writing on it from shoulder to shoulder. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
My weak spot regarding brands is Wrangler, as they were the only company that had those best fitting jeans for me. Now they ceased to produce that type. I'm stuck!
The current fashion of dyed and scrubbed jeans is horrible! $100 for pre scrubbed junk?
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The current fashion of dyed and scrubbed jeans is horrible! $100 for pre scrubbed junk?
Agreed, those jeans are shit which is why I wear kahkis or cargo pants
He also wears a Tommy Hilfiger jacket with the Hilfiger logo and writing on it from shoulder to shoulder. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
My weak spot regarding brands is Wrangler, as they were the only company that had those best fitting jeans for me. Now they ceased to produce that type. I'm stuck!
The current fashion of dyed and scrubbed jeans is horrible! $100 for pre scrubbed junk?
Just do what I do: buy a comfortable, well-fitting pair of Levis and wear the hell out of them for a year, washing them every chance you get, and get that look the natural way.
I hate that current look that lots of chicks are wearing with the SUPER tight and dark jeans with the blatant faded/washed-out "stripes" down the front leg/thigh.
There's just something silly about paying money to get something that you could get for free with just a little time.
Kind of like someone living on the 9th floor of an apartment house and then spending money for a gym membership so they can use the StairMaster.
And yes, I know someone who does that very exact thing...
When I asked them why they just didn't take the stairs when they got home they replied:
"Well, how am I supposed to know how many calories I've burned and what my heartrate is, and at the gym I can vary my resistance, and my personal trainer is so cute that...
Oh - ho!
Y'know I've met more interesting people in stairwells than in gyms, but that's just me.
<strong>My work mate told me..... </strong><hr></blockquote>
I like those old jeans which have faded by wear and tear. But my second pair like that was so unfair as to twitch while I was climbing a ladder. Much to the amusement of my work mates.
Need I point out the place where they cracked?
Gosh! I was lucky to wear something decent under to protect my behind from alien eyes!
What is the general census here regarding women's shoes with high heels? Aye or nay?
(I am not so tall as to match the average Californian girl, not even with 2" heels, so I like to know)
As for the rest of you fashion horses... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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