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Ae.abercrombie.hollister RANT

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bp.lando
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you know what REALLY grinds my gears.


AE/HOLLISTER/ABERCROMBIE and people that think they need to wear that kind of stuff to get girls, and vice versa.

I don't know if its just me but when i see someone wearing those brands i see someone that is weak and easily controlled by the media and peer pressure. People are turning themselves into these giant "preppy" billboards by wearing this kind of stuff just cuase some kid on the OC was wearing that stuff.

I much prefer seeing a girl that actually shops for her clothes and wears something else then every other girl who just went to ae/hollister/abercrombie. I swear this week i saw at least 50 girls wearing the same pair of shorts, when i asked one of them wear they all got them from they said they were the new shorts @ abercrombie. I MEAN COME ON PEOPLE LETS BE ORIGINAL.

About a year ago i made a desision never to spend my money at one of these stores again, t-shirt for 25 dollars doesnt just seem like a great deal for me, and its not like im buying this t-shirt to support a core skiing company or someone that needs the money. buy spending my money at abercrombie/ae/hollister im only making the RICH RICHER.

I guess im kind of on a Boycot of these stores now. The only places i buy my clothes are the local skate shop and d-structure. I much rather support these smaller stores and companies and lets help the people that need to grow grow.

THIS HAS BEEN MY RANT/ if you shop at these storeies please post why you do. I seriously want to know. maybe im a grumpy ass hole maybe im not. EXPRESS YOUR OPINION!
May 27 2006 11:31AM
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wuestinator
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when the rich wage war,
its the poor who die.
May 29 2006 1:07AM
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pales
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true, but i dont see how thats relevant
May 29 2006 1:25AM
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grubix2
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South park said it best in the "you got served" episode:

"I'm such a non-conformist, that I'm not going to conform to you guys not conforming"

Quit being so damn concerned with everyone else. Theres a reason why these stores became popular in the first place.

Yes I shop at hollister and Abercrombie. In fact about 75% of my clothes are from those stores. Why?

1 - Quality
In the 20 years of my life I have found their clothes to be the best ones I've owned. I have 2 abercrombie polos that I have worn since I was 16. I have leather hollister flip flops that I have lasted me 2 years or hard use. The fabric is thick and not paper thin, jeans remain close to the way you bought them wash after wash, all of the button down shirts have collar-stays in the collars, ect.

2 - Style
I like jeans that have wide leg openings. I like shirts with narrow bodies. I hate t-shirts that hang really far below my belt line. These stores satisfy these preferences. This is the way I like to dress. Some guys like to tuck their sack up in their chest and wear girl pants. Do I give a shit? No. If they like that style, then thats fine.

3 - Appeal
I hear it from girls day after day. "Andy, more guys really should dress like you. You always have on nice clothes." Do you think I'm going to change when banging chicks are telling me they like my style? If it ain't broke don't fix it. I mean a lot of girl's preferences are different, but when you are dressed well you can really stand out.
May 29 2006 1:48AM
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Barmski
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Ha im sure majority of ns is on your side with this rant man. Two funny stories or blurps on this: One kid one from high school used to walk into these stores ie Abercrombie, AE, Aeropolstale,etc and LITERALLY scream out- "IS THIS THE STORE WHERE EVERYONE WANTS TO BE REALLY COOL AND POPULAR ?" and then just stand there for a few and leave. Freakin harilous too.

Also for the record i have only been in these stores ONCE and will never go again. What I do now is walk up to the entrance of the store in the malls and simply turn around RIGHT when im right about to enter and just walk away. Its a fun thing to do alone or with friends for personal enjoyment haha. Especially fun to strut too cause its just so random ha.
May 29 2006 2:26AM
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STACKS
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shit sucks
May 29 2006 9:29AM
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michelle
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amen.

i do own 4 pairs of abercrombie pants, but because they are the only pants that fit me. it's hard to find a 38 inch inseam.. and a size 5 waist. actually, i don't know of anywhere else BUT abercrombie that has that size, unless you want to get custom fit jeans.

and i buy everything else from Marshalls and TJ Maxx.. even some ski clothes. orage puffy marked down to 80 bucks, dopest jacket ever. but i mostly buy the 'sufer'type clothing, like roxy, split, etc. they have shirts there for 5 bucks instead of 20-25 in pacsun.
May 29 2006 9:56AM
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triebby
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jea jea jea, 110% brotha
May 29 2006 10:57AM
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bp.lando
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this is where im coming from.

are you actually so lame that the only way you can get girls is dressing like them, do you really go into those stores and buy the same shirt that the 5 guys in front of you bought and say to your self "NOW, i can bang some hot chicks" maybe if these girls dint just look at what your wearing and see that your a 2 dimensional zombie that just bought your clothes their because you also follow trends easily, they would see "that this guys probably going to bring me to average dates, in the average car that everyone drives to the average restaurant that every one goes to wearing the same average clothes that every guy i've ever dated dressed in." this is where my stance about originality comes from.

Due to your stance on quality. right now im wearing an Atomic shirt that i got for free @ summit about 3 years ago, the graphic on the shirt is still perfect theirs no problems with the material and everythings working great. unlike you i didn;t classify this shirt as useless because i didnt pay 25 dollars for it at one of the IT stores.

And to everyones point about Aeropostale. that store may have cheap shirts but their t shirts and jeans are of the worst quality i've ever been around. I uses to buy thos 2-25 dollar t shirts and after two months of wear and washing the screen printed graphic proved to be shit and eventually tear off and wash away. As for the jeans the things rip from contact of a brick wall or even getting caught in my bike chain for a second. Compared to my old navy jeans that never rip when this happens that also cost me $10 less.

IF YOUR THINKING ABOUT CHANGING YOUR STYLE TO THESE STORES TO APPEAL TO GIRLS THAN MAN.... YOUR LAME
May 29 2006 12:31PM
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Liam.
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BP ownes
May 29 2006 12:34PM
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tBatt
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know what REALLY grinds my gears? Jennifer lopez

yes i watch family guy too
May 29 2006 1:20PM
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ArmadaFreerider8
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Word

Worry about yourself man
May 29 2006 1:48PM
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skiierman
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So you want a pat on the back or something?

Anways, I just look at it in the way that just about everybody at my school are a bunch of sheep and I figure that they can wear all that gay shit. As long as I'm not wearing it, or the people that are wearing it aren't assholes who think they're better of you because of their clothes... I'm fine. But I wouldn't mind seeing these places blowing up, along with those fucking Crogs.
May 29 2006 1:49PM
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BillyGoteMan
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u only buy skate clothes, u are so much cooler now, wow
May 29 2006 2:38PM
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Redstar
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Lookin' good, feelin' good. Now shut up.
May 29 2006 3:01PM
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PrivateEnemy
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everyone here needs to just grow up. once you are out of high school you're not going to give a shit and neither will anyone else. people say that people who wear af are sheep but look at all the volcom and quiksilver sheep. works both ways guys. just let it go and do what the hell you want.
May 29 2006 3:28PM
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7X
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bp. is just jealous because he cant afford hollister and he wears shit ass ghetto clothing and doesnt get any pussy.
May 29 2006 3:40PM
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KillerMonkey
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well there are the shirts that have the town names on it like redondo beach, california and stuff. Well my friend used to live in redondo beach and he moved here in like 7th grade. Well one day we see this guy with a redondo beach sweater on and ask him if he's ever been there. He's like, no way dude, its just a fake place the abercrombie made up. My friend totally bashed him when he told him he was from redondo beach.
May 29 2006 4:08PM
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.John.
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I don't like the clothes, but I don't really care about what other people wear.

however, If I see a guy come up to me in a tight pink polo, with popped collar, trucker hat, and flip flops, I'm automatically going to judge him as a huge queer
May 29 2006 4:08PM
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Peter.
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ik you guys are yelling at ae and hollister for their prices.... well go to d-structure. all the shirts there are 25
May 29 2006 4:17PM
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bp.lando
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quite the opposite my friend
May 29 2006 4:41PM
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.John.
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haha, exactly, ski company shirts are mad expensive
May 29 2006 5:25PM
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7X
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jk man, come on lol.
May 29 2006 5:26PM
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*music4life*
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booooooo
May 29 2006 6:04PM
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DaysToCome
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I have never botten abercombie or Hollister or American Eagle
EVER
May 29 2006 7:36PM
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underflipped
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didnt you post this somewhere else
May 29 2006 7:37PM
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Lé.Skiing
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i know what you mean about people wearing skiing or snowboarding apperal when they dont even ski/snowboard.. liek when i was working i seen this girl that came in wearing a burton T and i was like so you been up to mt. washington and she was like whats that, and i was like its the biggest ski hill the island has to offer, she was liek oh i dont do any winter sports, and i was like why are you wearing a snowboarding company shirt then, she was liek cause its cool, and lots of people i know wear their stuff.... and i was like well thats great but what i really wnated to say well theres someone trying to seek acceptance... liek i dont know how someone can wear a company with out doing a sport that the comany was made to support, like ok i may have some clothing that i dont do the sports for, but i think its alright because i didnt buy them and its rude to be liek sorry i cant have this cause i'm not into that kind of stuff, but atleast the stuff that i'm wearing i know what it stands for she sisnt even know what burton was for... she just thaught it was a clothing line.
May 29 2006 7:48PM
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TannerCoulter.
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ay mang, american eagle and aeropostale are sweet
May 29 2006 8:03PM
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Shifty540
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I wear some of the stuff...my main complaint is how fuckin small they make it. I am 6-1 and weigh 190 and I gotta get XL to have it fit. Anything else its wayyyy too tight. Messed up
May 29 2006 8:06PM
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XtSurfMogulXt
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As far as the people being what some might call "posers" wearing burton shirts, but not liking snowboards, shirts from a beack they've never been to - that mildly annoys me. I think you should rep what you do and do what you rep. I wouldn't even wear a shirt that had a surf board on it, before I'd actually been surfing. Maybe i'm talking this to the other extreme, but i'm sure someone agrees.
May 29 2006 8:24PM
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lalalalaura
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pretty much any dedication to consumer culture will make you an asshole. that's just how it goes.

enjoy products/design/concept, not the brands that make them.
May 29 2006 8:26PM
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Shifty540
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Same here, I never buy stuff with sports I dont do. I love it when people wear all those skater clothes or shoes and they don't skate...or people who put "Burton" or "Lib" stickers on their cars and they don't board.
May 29 2006 8:27PM
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Capt.Flannel
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so what if a big company makes a product/design you like? Are you an asshole for enjoying it?
May 29 2006 8:28PM
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ArmadaFreerider8
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you've never botten anything? haha
May 29 2006 8:31PM
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lalalalaura
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no, you're an asshole if you enjoy that product/design, solely because company A made it.
for instance : buying a plain white t-shirt for ___ amount of dollars, simply because ____ makes it, and you "identify" with because of clever marketing.

this is in my opinion, of course. don't be hurt if you happen to own a white tshirt that a certain brand makes.

but yeah, it doesn't "make you an asshole" necessarily, but it puts you on a good path towards reaching that platform.
May 29 2006 8:32PM
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Capt.Flannel
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I don't see why it's an asshole thing to do if you want a something (be it a simple t-shirt or not) and you go into a particular brand store because you know they have them and like them.
May 29 2006 8:36PM
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Capt.Flannel
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BUT, with your example of the white t-shirt, I do understand what you're saying in relation to buying a white t-shirt for 15 bucks vs buying a 4 pack for 8 bucks.
May 29 2006 8:37PM
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lalalalaura
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that's not what i'm saying!
gosh!

i'm merely saying, that buying a product for any other reason than you like the product itself, is a stupid thing to do, and is one of the problems with our culture today, which translates to pursuers of this activity being somewhat lame in nature thus translating to being an asshole.
May 29 2006 8:38PM
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Capt.Flannel
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k, gotcha. I was, mistakenly, relating your post to other's I've seen that mention how 'walking into a mall and going directly to a store because of the name' makes you an asshole.
May 29 2006 8:39PM
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evan25
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w3rd i wear ralph lauren polo's spesichically me and a frend of mine whos a girl both have the most polo's in our school (which is in a white suburban town in CT) and i hate abercrombie and hollister etc. but i love polo kinda weird i knoiw
May 29 2006 10:32PM
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freezed
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I don't care what brand anyone wears, it doesn't bother me if people wear Hollister and AE,.

But it just so happens that you can buy shirts at Value Village for 75 cents, so why would I even shop anywhere else?
May 29 2006 10:32PM
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lalalalaura
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actually, walmart just purchased value village recently, if you haven't noticed a slight price increase, that's why... so more like, a shirt at value village is around 4.99 now.
May 29 2006 10:34PM
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bp.lando
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i guess the root of this rant goes back to originality.

orginniality has always been something important to me, and i guess it's something i hold really close. I've never done the whole american kids dream i didnt play little league, i never showed intrest in football, and def wasnt for basketball, and even as a grom i didnt want to fit in. I used to call myself werid and people called me that and i went on liking that title.


now you could call me unique, and i guess one of the things that contributes to my individuality is growing up in a liberal household and growing up in the boston area. heres where my pint about clothing comes across.


when you first see someone what do you have to judge them by?
of course waht they look like, admit it we all do. I see johnny mequon walking down the hall im gonna look at what hes wearing and judge his personality by that. I see hes wearing a Abercrombie shirt that says for example "gettin' lucky in kentucky" theirs no way he bought this shirt in kentucky or hed eve been to kentucky because on second glance you notis the prominent abercrombie logo, for some of you, you may be going OH SWEET I HAVE THT SAME SHIRT, or IM GONNA GO BUY THAT.

for me i say woah.... why would someone who never goes to kentucky and im guessing after a conversation would rag on kentucky and call their residents hicks buy this shirt. the only logical awnser is weakness to peer pressure and giving in to a brand that everyone wears.

im not calling any of y'all weak im just sure you've all seen this.

and also DONT BUY SHIRTS THAT RAG ON STATES THAT YOU'VE NEVER SET FOOT IN. ie. the west virginia shirt abercrombie put out a cople years ago.

im guessing you've seen a funny shirt poking fun of wisconsin for its overabundance of cows and fat people. but really thats a wicked untrue label. I'll admit to doing that before, but guess what. I LIVE IN WISCONSIN NOW. i live in a town with one farm and no obese people, and the only place they have cows are along the illinois boarder, if you want to rag on wisco for cows, rag on california they have more cows.

end rant inside of rant
May 29 2006 11:14PM
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Edward.
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yea, probably about 70 percent of the kids that wear that stuff are followers and need to learn to just be themselves, not what other people tell them
May 29 2006 11:20PM
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asac
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you keep showing us how judgemental you are of other people, and how you, yourself are a closeminded individual. not everyone looks at someone and immediately judges them from inside out because their shirt has a logo on it.
May 29 2006 11:33PM
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grubix2
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You are totally missing the point of the whole thing about appeal. Andy you are generalizing society as a whole.

While we're in a stereotyping mood, have you ever considered this:

Do "emo" kids wear Hollister/Abercrombie? No. They wear clothes from their bands and girl pants.

Do "goths" wear Hollister/Abercrombie? No. They ALL wear big baggy black clothes and chains.

Do "ghetto" kids wear Hollister/Abercrombie? No. They ALL wear Fubu, South Pole, Sean Jean etc.

Do "skaters" wear hollister/abercrombie? No. They wear their independent truck company t-shirts, dickies, and Vans.

Why don't you take a drive to the hood, and jump on the backs of every black dude you see wearing an XXXL Jersey and his pants around his knees. Or maybe you'd like to take a walk in to the mall and yell at that group of goths walking around all wearing those pants wear you can't see their shoes and the ribbons hanging off them.

The way society is structured today, it is segmented into many different groups that have specific preferences. So naturally, girls are attracted to men with similar preferences.

Do you think these girls
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are going to want to date this guy?
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Now I'm going completely by odds here. Yes there is a possibility that they may like him (which is totally fine), but in all of my experiences in high school and college. Girls are attracted to guys that are similar to them.

I like blondes with nice little asses like this
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Obviously I wouldn't orient my wardrobe like this to attract her.
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I last semester I took a course called Modern Society. I wrote an 10 page paper specifically on this topic. You're barking up the wrong tree.
May 30 2006 12:39AM
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freezed
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actually actually, I was there today (50% off day), and shirts were in fact, 75 cents. Because they are normally $1.50, but I only go there on 50% off days, which is anytime there is a holiday on a monday.
May 30 2006 1:43AM
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pales
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im not gonna quote grubix cuz his post is really long and big, but he definately got the right point and wins the argument
May 30 2006 7:33AM
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grubix2
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Andy = And, just a typo
May 30 2006 9:45AM
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eastAR5
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ive never even heard of Hollister before



i bought a ambercrombie shirt in 6th grade cause everyone had them but i lost it a couple weeks later and then realized how fucking gay all that shit was
May 30 2006 1:51PM
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brennanmidwest
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completly agree with you...i dont really wear thier shirts but i wear american eagle pants and stuff..i just dont like hollister and abercrombie cuz the stores themselves kinda annoy me
May 30 2006 2:21PM
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