<p>[Abercrombie</a> Wants Thin Customers - Business Insider](<a href=“Abercrombie Wants Thin Customers”>Abercrombie Wants Thin Customers)</p>
<p>I think they have had their fifteen minutes.
Can’t say I’ve ever shopped there though, they were for grandpa clothes.</p>
<p>The employees are directed to ignore anyone who doesn’t fit their desired image. My kids won’t wear it because of the snobbishness.</p>
<p>This reminded me of this:
[No</a> Shirts (111 Shirtless Men in Abercombie and Fitch) - YouTube](<a href=“Abercrombie & Fitch No Shirts Prank - YouTube”>Abercrombie & Fitch No Shirts Prank - YouTube)</p>
<p>You can buy all the A&F stuff you’ll ever want in thrift stores, where it has been dumped by kids who finally realize that it’s not cool beyond 9th grade or so.</p>
<p>Can’t even enter those stores. So much perfume added to something. Gives instant headache. BTW…I thought they sell bare chested young men…since I can’t enter I can only go by the large pictures in the windows.</p>
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<p>Some styles just simply do not look good (no matter how PC one tries to spin it) if they accentuate a muffin top, the ‘girls’ falling out and thighs which obviously do not fit the fabric. If Abercrombie styles do not look good on certain body types then sizing these upward doesn’t help.</p>
<p>From the original interview.
If you didn’t wear 501s you were considered weird.”</p>
<p>Same philosophy as H.</p>
<p>True progress will have been made when they start selling clothes designed for bodies other than those which are slim hipped and small busted.</p>
<p>Look at the bathing suits on offer for the younger set, for example. Very few if any styles for young women who need a supportive top.</p>
<p>I have no quarrel with them for only going up to a size 10 in woman’s sizes. As a small-sized person, I frequently have trouble finding my size in a dept store that supposedly has every size as they seem to sell out of the small sizes quickly and there are lots of 10s & 12s left on the rack. (Just my experience. I’m sure that those who wear size 10/12 find only size 2 when they go shopping. lol) </p>
<p>However, it is the attitude that rankles. My children and I do not shop at this store for many reasons. Not ever.</p>
<p>We can only hope that the “upside” to our growing waistlines is that stores like this go bankrupt. </p>
<p>I’ve never understood fashion. Spending 10x more for a label never did anything for me. And now I can’t fit into their clothes. I’m heartbroken. Really.</p>
<p>My heart does break for larger bone girls who might already have body image problems and are fashion obsessed. This must be a huge blow to a potentially already shaky self esteem.</p>
<p>I have no quarrel with them for only going up to a size 10 in woman’s sizes. As a small-sized person, I frequently have trouble finding my size in a dept store that supposedly has every size as they seem to sell out of the small sizes quickly</p>
<p>I don’t think they have petites though, do they?
Its one thing if you are going after a niche market- but to imply or actually state outloud as the CEO does, that your niche market is superior to others by virtue of their body type is repugnant.</p>
<p>There are some places that only order a few small sizes, when I go shopping I see lots of xsmalls & xlarges- albeit neither one is actually very small or very large.
Just like with people,sometimes it seems there is more variation within a size than between sizes. 
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<p>EK, I sometimes fall out of a size 2 peitite - all because of the stupid vanity sizing. And I’m not a small person!!! For some people, even petites departments are out of question. In Europe, very few women’s clothes come in sizes larger than 48, which would be about 10 US. </p>
<p>Romani, fashion is just another form of art. That said, what A&F sells is not fashion. It is kitschy teen stuff.</p>
<p>I remember when Abercrombie & Fitch sold classic clothing and sporting (e.g. fishing, shooting) goods, a product mix very much like what Orvis now sells. Back in the day a friend of mine made a point of going there for her Bowdoin interview ensemble. My bocci set came from A&F and my husband still has a few viyella shirts from one of the old stores. (The flagship in Manhattan closed in the late seventies.) Mr. Abercrombie and Mr. Fitch have probably been rolling in their graves for years now.</p>
<p>I think the current company simply bought the name.</p>
<p>I think the praise for H&M stocking plus sizes is misplaced. They are sized for (slimmer) Europeans. My D wears an 8 in normal US clothes and at H&M, can usually squeeze into H&M’s largest “regular” size. I wear a 2 in normal US sizes and have to wear an 8 at H&M. At least around here, their plus dept. is very small.</p>
<p>I shop at target for my clothes. but… for you to say that abercombie is not fashionable/trendy etc… is silly. I think it is a ripoff and some of what they do is wrong, but they are not at the end of their 15 minutes or grandpa clothes.</p>
<p>I don’t think any of the clothing retail shops (Hollister, Urban Outfitters, A&F, Pac Sun) that target the teen market have a plus size section. A&F targets a particular demographic. That is their business decision. Competing retail stores like Macy’s, Buckle feel the opposite and target a wide range of customers. If a skinny girl wandered inside Lane Bryant sales people will probably ignore her too.</p>
<p>Zobroward, my reference was to years ago when they did sell clothes for mature gentlemen, before the current CEO, instead of those who dont mind wearing offensive slogans or imagery.
They have gone bankrupt- looks like several times over the history of the name.
Wonder how much longer the current incarnation will last.</p>
<p>*U.S. revenue at Abercrombies namesake stores and its Hollister chain slipped 2.5 percent in the first half of fiscal 2012, and the retailer is bracing for lower sales in the second half at stores open for more than a year. Abercrombie, which declined comment for this story, shuttered 71 U.S. stores in its most recent fiscal year, and in February said it will close another 180 through 2015. *
[Abercrombie</a> Shareholders Deserve Better Than Jeffries - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/02/07/abercrombie-shareholders-deserve-better-than-jeffries/]Abercrombie”>Abercrombie Shareholders Deserve Better Than Jeffries)</p>
<p>It’s a good thing larger people don’t have smaller children or friends that they might be buying a present for. Otherwise A&F might be missing out on some business ignoring them.</p>
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<p>Nope. Smart sales people know that people might be shopping for mothers, grandmothers, daughters…</p>
<p>Oh well. <shrug>
I’ve never set foot in one of those stores. And not because I’m fat. LOL.</shrug></p>