{"id":13655,"date":"2014-02-02T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13655"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:27:12","slug":"why-is-a-and-f-falling-flat-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/02\/02\/why-is-a-and-f-falling-flat-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"why is a and f falling flat right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sign that the Revolution Will Not be covered in the Old Media.\u00c2\u00a0 There is this anti- Abercrombie and Fitch activism out there, at time vaguely and at other times specifically left-wing in nature, centered around the various repercussions of their elitist market value … starting with the CEO line of…<\/p>\n

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and lots of friends.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And so it i<\/a>s… curious in its exclusivity.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically we’re selling prestige for rich white Suburbanites.<\/p>\n

And on to why they don’t stock women’s clothing above a small size (because “fat chicks” aren’t cool)… and how they can easily slide into insensitivity on some of their apparel– the “ironic racist” t-shirts, ala this controversy<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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None of this permeates this NY Times article<\/a> on how the company’s sales are down.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead a hodgepodge of things that make sense in my world and things that… are from another world than mine.<\/div>\n
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Sales are down across the shelves of many traditional teenage apparel retailers, and some analysts and others suggest that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a tired fashion sense causing the slump. The competition for teenage dollars, at a time of high unemployment within that age group, spans from more stores to shop in to more tempting technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

And sometimes phones loaded with apps or a game box trump the latest in jeans.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good, good, good… and… now bad.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enough to make you think the teen is going to be walking around naked,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John D. Morris, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What happened to them?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

What?\u00c2\u00a0 If they’re walking around naked maybe they’re just following some of the store’s ads… Unless, of course…<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You can buy a plaid shirt at Abercrombie that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like $70,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Daniela Donayre, 17, standing in a Topshop in Manhattan. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Or I can go to Forever 21 and buy the same shirt for $20.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Har de har har.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there’s the problem with celebrity trend-setters shifting their trends on an increased pace.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Today, if you saw that Justin Bieber got arrested drag-racing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. McClintock said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and you saw in the picture that he had on a cool red shirt, then you can go online and find that cool red shirt and have it delivered to you in two days from some boutique in Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ten years ago, teens were dependent on going to Abercrombie & Fitch and buying from the select items that Mike Jeffries, the C.E.O., thought would be popular nine months ago.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Har de har har.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sign that the Revolution Will Not be covered in the Old Media.\u00c2\u00a0 There is this anti- Abercrombie and Fitch activism out there, at time vaguely and at other times specifically left-wing in nature, centered around the various repercussions of their elitist market value … starting with the CEO line of… “In every school there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13656,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13655\/revisions\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}