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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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GingerKid08
Posts: 1320 - Karma: 13
So the only way for anyone to be an individual is to dress different than everybody? I pretty much only wear A&F and hollister but im just as much an individual as any of you. I have my own personality and i have my own state of mind. If you say im just like everyone else cause i wear trendy cloths your a moron. All of my friends wear the same thing, but were so differnt its ridiculous. All your points suck, and to generalize all the trendy kids in your school is fucking retarded.
May 27 2006 5:42PM
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Alpine3
Posts: 1811 - Karma: 24
exactly
May 27 2006 5:48PM
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eastAR5
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u guys make me ashamed
May 27 2006 6:10PM
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Nihiriju
Posts: 2061 - Karma: 27
all those cloths are soo gay, any guy who wears that stuff is brokeback. Some of the styles are okey, but the companies are just outright shitty. and half of it has soo many frills, i hate that frilly shit!
May 27 2006 6:29PM
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praymantus
Posts: 161 - Karma: 10
jea TOP OF THE WORLD REP
May 27 2006 6:36PM
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C-Burg
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i gave all of those shirts like that to goodwill
May 27 2006 6:59PM
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Durtschi
Posts: 6897 - Karma: 1,878
dude ROSS has the pellepelle tall tees for like 6 bucks
May 27 2006 7:04PM
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eastAR5
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id feel like the biggest faggot wearing any of that shit in public
May 27 2006 7:17PM
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Dfresh
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 17
HAHA, top of the world is probably the worse store in existance. they are more trendy then hollister, ae, gap combined. i would much rather shop at ae than top of the world.

top of the world is the biggest trend whore in all of ottawa in terms of stores, not to mention the atmosphere of the store itself is shit and not a friendly place to shop.
May 27 2006 7:35PM
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shrEddie
Posts: 5117 - Karma: 65
ive never boutgh anything from those stores. not because im a rebel, just because i cant afford it and my parents wont buy them for me. i like some of their pants but i dont have 85 bucks to spare. however i did buy a tall tee last night for 6 dollars
May 27 2006 7:42PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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yo this fuckin prep at my school wears AE and abercrombie and reps it with signs and shit thinking hes ghetto...im like "what the fuck are you doing? you think your ghetto wearing prep clothes? you fucked up"
May 27 2006 7:45PM
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Elijah.
Posts: 9322 - Karma: 76
your rant is awesome, and i agree with you on most of what you say. I hate the clones and clones of people who wear that shit.
May 27 2006 7:46PM
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MitchPee
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My god...you are a tool.

Clothes is a way that people FREELY like to express themselves. Why the hell would you even begin to judge someone because of the clothes they were. You are stereotyping and have basically no point to this whole rant. What if people like the clothes and don't want something original. If we all wore something "original", then it wouldn't be original. There's no way everyone on this earth can wear something totally different from everyone else. Just because you didn't fit in at highschool doesn't mean you have to try to tear apart the kids that did. Who the hell cares what other people wear. Stop bitching about clothes.
May 27 2006 7:52PM
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Capt.Flannel
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hahahahaha, prep? suuure
May 27 2006 8:07PM
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suzia
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holy shit. girls that ONLY wear hollister and abercrombie piss the shit out of me. like crap they all look the same/ like clones of each pther which isn't cool at all. maybe their hot cause most guys liek them but they are SO annoying and cloned. same with guys. you cant just wear the "surfer" brands of clothes. and hten on surveys or w/e when their like describe your style and they say surfer. CLEARLY you arent concidered a surfer unless you've actually done it before. wearing some of it is alright cause its nice but dont over do it
May 27 2006 9:20PM
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GingerKid08
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Stop being such an elitest fuck, no one cares that you spend 75 dollars on a shirt and are a "real" prep.
May 27 2006 10:03PM
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pales
Posts: 1125 - Karma: 25
thus why i dont wear surfing clothes anymore even though i do surf. i find other ways to support my local shop
May 27 2006 10:22PM
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Capt.Flannel
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I never said I was a real prep, and I'm not because I didn't go to prep school. Don't be such a cunt.
May 27 2006 10:47PM
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[lineskier]820
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i hate how most people who wear hollister ansd stuff act like their all surfer/skater and whatnot there always like "dude i just bought pre-ripped jeans and i surf so ya know dude." and i like dude.....u dont surf, or do anything but shop.....then they proceed to whip their feathery, dyed and professionally cut and pampered hair out of their face, and i proceed to piss on em, ya know that ol chestnut
May 27 2006 10:49PM
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--Daniel--
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i wear AE and A&F but im not one of those fags who pops their collar or wears skate shoes and has never even touched a skateboard in their life. i just like the shirts though, anyone who buys jeans at A&F is retarded, jeans all look the same and the only reason they cost so much more at A&F is because they throw paint on them and rip the shit out of them to make them look "vintage".
May 27 2006 11:04PM
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ProducerXXX
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Hahaha, agreed.

I understand the rant, but like a lot of people in this thread, I think people just wear what they like and makes them happy. Sure there are the people who go way overboard spending a shitload on their clothes, but if that's what they like to wear, so what? If they want to clone everyone else, so be it.

For a lot of people, I'd have to say wearing "core"/small/whatever company clothes isn't an option. Where I live there's not many places to shop I guess. Walmart, the mall (which consists of the aforementioned stores + sears, kauffmans, bon-ton, other department stores that suck). Sure you could go to a ski/skate shop, but those are just corporate companys trying to make big money too.
May 28 2006 12:40AM
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Ddrem
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green perhaps???
i got one last night in blue. were cool.
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shorts from kohls- $8
air force 1's- $80
shirt i made saying "welcome to gnarnia"- $3
tall tee- $6
NOT BEING A TOTAL GAY FAG HOMO ABERCROMBIE FAYGOT- thank god priceless
May 28 2006 1:01AM
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FUUUCK
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one time i wanted to buy a J.lindberg belt simply for the name
May 28 2006 1:14AM
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Itsbackfliptime
Posts: 18901 - Karma: 75
Aeropostale and American Eagle have very cheap clothes. Like 20 bucks for a nice pair of jeans and the sales they have for girls are nuts. I'll go to the mall with my girlfriend and she'll get like pants and a shirt for like 8 dollars then they're always like "you can have these free panties too".
May 28 2006 1:45AM
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J.Bass
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yea what he said
May 28 2006 1:46AM
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Leckett
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well i wear whatever the fuck i want to wear. also i think spending a lot of money on clothing is just stupid. you can get the same quality clothes for like $20 cheaper. the only difference is that it doesnt have some stupid logo on it or a retarded comment like "SLACKERS UNITE!.....tomorrow..."

ive been wearing the same pairs of wal-mart jeans now for years and they still have a lot of time left in them. same with my t-shirts. their all skateshop shirts which i got on sale and they last me a long time.

but i guess if you like spending rediculous sums of money on clothes because it has a logo on it well i guess thats just you. i see much better things to do with money than support a clothing line whos profits are way out of perpotion with their sales.
May 28 2006 9:50AM
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theORANGEshovel
Posts: 857 - Karma: 99
i just wear skiing stuff now i got a armada belt or i go to like pac sun or zumies i used to wear that stuff but its not me so i got me some skiing shirts and stuff
May 28 2006 10:07AM
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steevner
Posts: 4502 - Karma: 47
i've noticed west49 (skate shop) is now trying to appeal to all of todays "cool trends" they're carrying all these emo band shirts and stuff like that, they used to be cool
May 28 2006 11:31AM
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*Fujative*
Posts: 8554 - Karma: 183
yes. i wear what i want. normally liek pac sun
May 28 2006 11:47AM
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RedbAss
Posts: 352 - Karma: 10
oh shit looking down at may cheast i see
'HCTIF & EIBWORCREBA'
it was a hand me down from my gf's little brother, who is not so little. But it fit. So what do I care what it says on it.
Some people have style, others dont. Dont expect school kids to have their own style yet.
May 28 2006 12:26PM
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freestyle_rich
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goodwill is where its at- a tshirt for 2$!!! can't beat that!
May 28 2006 12:41PM
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HAM*
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i dont know how people can afford that shit a pair of pants costs like 80 dollars
May 28 2006 12:46PM
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steevner
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mine says "stnuts nwo ym lla od i"
May 28 2006 12:50PM
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pales
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we should start a thread on just this

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May 28 2006 12:56PM
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steevner
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start one man, this is a sweet stupid forum game
May 28 2006 1:02PM
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ERIEcoastSKIER
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i have never worn any of those brands...Im original! YAY ME.
May 28 2006 3:01PM
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*DrewT*
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I buy the stuff that looks good to me. I don't really care about brand name that much
May 28 2006 3:06PM
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shagalabagala
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i knew you'd show up here...douchebag
May 28 2006 3:22PM
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XtSurfMogulXt
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I pretty much agree.

I have work some abercrombie stuff, but mainly the pants - because I'm tall, I have a hard time finding anything that actually goes below my ankles, but that, and I'll only buy em on clearance... which isn't often...

I'm actually a real big fan of Marshalls, which for those of you who don't know is where they have like, seconds from a bunch of kinda bigger brands. Baisically, Billabong, Hurley, Quicksilver, O'neill, Ripcurl - awesome like, surf-style stuff which I'm real into, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than normal, at a place like pacsun (which I love, it's just expensive).

I'm baisically against most of the big stores that sell a shirt with nothing but their name plastered across the front of it, or some crude humor. I think ae is the lesser of the evils as far as that goes.
May 28 2006 3:32PM
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Lax_Bro40
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i like the style and the way they fit bro... and it deff helps with the girls
May 28 2006 5:20PM
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720laxskier
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i hate how in school you see like 4 kids with the same shirt on, then you turn the corner and there's 5 kids wearing the same shirt but different colors
May 28 2006 5:36PM
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PrivateEnemy
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wow, this is the most rediculous thing i have ever read. everyone trying to be original is unoriginal.
May 28 2006 5:51PM
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pales
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new page. this is hilarious
May 28 2006 5:53PM
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Capt.Flannel
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Aren't you just the epitome of maturity.
May 28 2006 6:32PM
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n-o
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really who gives a shit , some prep could make a rant about how all you skaters wear the same shit and it is only making someone richer ( quicksilver owns every-fucking-thing ...including rossi and roxy) so really it is juts your opinion against someone elses... dont make it into a big deal
May 28 2006 6:40PM
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OOHapieceofcandy
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meh, clothes is clothes, I just buy shit I like and is reasonably priced, doesnt matter where it comes from. If someone wants to buy a shirt from one of those "un-core" companies because they genuinely like the look or the feel, who cares. It's a different matter when someone buys a shirt they don't even necessarily like that much just for the brand name. I do think those preripped jeans are ridiculous, I think I'm gonna buy some cheapass jeans from someplace, rip em up, throw some paint on them, and try to sell them for 90 bucks.
May 28 2006 6:44PM
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asac
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i wear whatever the fuck i want to. i have couple hollister and AE shirts right next to my hendrix and doors tshirts. originality died with unsliced bread.
May 28 2006 7:12PM
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*music4life*
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luc ur just mad cuz it's u i'm tlkaing about... loooooser :P
May 28 2006 10:17PM
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Luc.
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who are you??? im pretty sure i dont know who u are...
May 28 2006 10:32PM
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Liam.
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agreed. BP.
May 28 2006 10:47PM
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