Before I begin, let me inform you that I am NOT a plus size.
To be utterly honest, I really don't know what size I am.
I sometimes can be a small, a medium, a 6, an 8 - heck - sometimes even a 14 if you feel like going vintage!
To be utterly honest, I really don't know what size I am.
I sometimes can be a small, a medium, a 6, an 8 - heck - sometimes even a 14 if you feel like going vintage!
But regardless, I am greatly upset over this whole Abercrombie & Fitch issue.
Let's just say my experience with Abercrombie & Fitch has been a dreadful, yet distant, one.
At my previous school, girls in my class would come in with their little A&F bags and reuse them as lunch boxes.
Sounds so innocent, right?
But instead of drooling over their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, they would drool over black and white photographs of male torsos which were being displayed.
I'd hate to make any of you feel uncomfortable, but I have to say it . . .
It was like porn for middle schoolers . . . But, of course, to a lesser extent.
As my fellow peers stared at the "luscious hard rock abs", I would sit in an isolated corner and admire the sewn spider on my red lunchbox, which was an actual lunchbox from L. L. Bean -- with a net for your icepack and zippered pockets to store things like Crystal Light packets.
Now, three or so years later, I am hearing about this whole Abercrombie & Fitch story of not selling to plus-sized people.
All it does is circle back to my experience as a middle schooler.
"We want to market to cool, good-looking people."
Seriously?!?!
Okay, maybe I am only 16 years old and I don't really have the authority to get mad at adults, but I'm going to anyways.
Are you stinking serious?!?!?!
I can see why the people who had bullied me for so long liked this stinking company!
The model of Abercrombie & Fitch is so screwed up!
What are they -- teenage (fill in the black)s who never grew up?
And, on a more logical point of view, the decision is completely idiotic!
Many people nowadays are plus-sized . . .
Granted, that's probably not a good thing, but if you sold to that population you'd get more money than if you didn't. . .
I mean, c'mon, it's simple math people!
Frankly, I'm really annoyed about this whole fiasco.
What about you guys?
What do you think?
At my previous school, girls in my class would come in with their little A&F bags and reuse them as lunch boxes.
Sounds so innocent, right?
But instead of drooling over their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, they would drool over black and white photographs of male torsos which were being displayed.
I'd hate to make any of you feel uncomfortable, but I have to say it . . .
It was like porn for middle schoolers . . . But, of course, to a lesser extent.
As my fellow peers stared at the "luscious hard rock abs", I would sit in an isolated corner and admire the sewn spider on my red lunchbox, which was an actual lunchbox from L. L. Bean -- with a net for your icepack and zippered pockets to store things like Crystal Light packets.
Now, three or so years later, I am hearing about this whole Abercrombie & Fitch story of not selling to plus-sized people.
All it does is circle back to my experience as a middle schooler.
"We want to market to cool, good-looking people."
Seriously?!?!
Okay, maybe I am only 16 years old and I don't really have the authority to get mad at adults, but I'm going to anyways.
Are you stinking serious?!?!?!
I can see why the people who had bullied me for so long liked this stinking company!
The model of Abercrombie & Fitch is so screwed up!
What are they -- teenage (fill in the black)s who never grew up?
And, on a more logical point of view, the decision is completely idiotic!
Many people nowadays are plus-sized . . .
Granted, that's probably not a good thing, but if you sold to that population you'd get more money than if you didn't. . .
I mean, c'mon, it's simple math people!
Frankly, I'm really annoyed about this whole fiasco.
What about you guys?
What do you think?
