You make the call: A&F Manager to face jail time?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Abercrombie & Fitch store hit with obscenity charges
Associated Press; Feb. 4, 2008

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Abercrombie and Fitch says authorities in Virginia Beach overreacted to a store's display photos of barely dressed models.

Police in the Virginia city hit the store manager with a misdemeanor obscenity charge over the weekend and confiscated two of the large pictures. One showed three shirtless young men, with one man's upper buttocks showing. Authorities said the other image was of a woman whose breast was mostly exposed.

Abercrombie's Columbus, Ohio area headquarters released a statement today, saying the photos show less skin than you'd see at the beach, and less than you'd see when a plumber is working on your kitchen sink.

The chain says it will fight the case aggressively.


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SHIELD YOUR EYES!  OFFENDING PICTURE TO FOLLOW!

[they don't love you like i love you]

Rather ridiculous, although normally I'd be sympathetic to anything that hurts A&F. Much like I supported that idiotic couple who sued Wal-Mart because their daughter bought an Evanescence CD with a "f**k" in it there, just because I wanted Wal-Mart to lose money.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

MY EYES!!!!!11111

[HardRCafé]

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

It's like we're the same person.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

[perdedor]

Land of the free, eh?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

Because you're not supposed to be buying the jeans, you're buying the illusion that you actually look like that.

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

Fun fact: those working in the store are called "sales models," because that's essentially what they are.  They're specifically (supposed) to be picked based on their attractiveness.  I think it's the terminology that helps them evade lawsuits.

All the folks in A&F ads are actually store employees.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

Because you're not supposed to be buying the jeans, you're buying the illusion that you actually look like that.

What I don't get is how the absence of clothes sells clothes.

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

Fun fact: those working in the store are called "sales models," because that's essentially what they are.  They're specifically (supposed) to be picked based on their attractiveness.  I think it's the terminology that helps them evade lawsuits.

All the folks in A&F ads are actually store employees.

Yeah he told me that.

I love the Mad TV Abercrombie sketches.

[HardRCafé]

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

How does someone play soccer in flip-flops?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

How does someone play soccer in flip-flops?

...That was in the store.
I played soccer with him regularly for months after.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Even more odd, when I lived in IL - on the Sunday before classes started there were live models in the store - one guy with only a pair of jeans and flip-flops on - and a girl in jean shorts and a bikini top.

I went in... ok I like "near"-smutty tshirts - and just had to speak to them on my way out I said "I feel like I'm interrupting something" Ironically I ended up playing Soccer with the guy.

How does someone play soccer in flip-flops?

Psh.  You just totally don't get the A&F lifestyle.

[HardRCafé]

Thank God.

[AkSaber]

Ridiculous, to say the least.

Awesome picture, btw.

[Storebought]

Good. Their ads look like NSDAP naturist brochures from the 1920s.

[Хahar 🤔]

If this was anyone else, I'd call it a travesty, but A&F sucks, so .

[Lief 🗽]

OH CRAP. THAT PICTURE JUST TURNED ME INTO A PEDOPHILE AND A RAPIST.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

[Хahar 🤔]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

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[angus]

somebody was fined over this?:



that's either coming from Fox News Channel or The Onion.  gotta be.

[7,052,770]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

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[Joe Republic]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

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oh wait, i used to be one ok never mind

[Keystone Phil]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

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oh wait, i used to be one ok never mind

You were an A&F manager? Uh...I could kind of see it (based on what I think I remember you looking like) but I don't know if this helps or hurts you on the coolness scale. 

[Joe Republic]

I just saw that pic at the A&F in the nearby mall, so apparently Minnesota doesn't care about this. But my position still stands, the manager deserves jail, not for the pic, but for being an A&F manager in the first place.

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oh wait, i used to be one ok never mind

You were an A&F manager? Uh...I could kind of see it (based on what I think I remember you looking like) but I don't know if this helps or hurts you on the coolness scale. 

Deputy manager (one of them) until Feb 2006.  I was more on the admin side of things, so the customers wouldn't have to endure my presence.  The inaccurate stereotype about A&F that prevails on this forum is to be expected.

[Keystone Phil]

The inaccurate stereotype about A&F that prevails on this forum is to be expected.

You mean the stereotype that most of America holds?    My sister works at the kids' store now and she has worked her way into fitting the preppy stereotype. You are so much better than that, Joe.