Is It Moral To Wear Abercrombie & Fitch?

[Didymus]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1587625' date='Jun 30 2008, 11:05 PM']Buying clothes invariably supports evil.
I'm going nudist.[/quote]

Eureka

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1587625' date='Jun 30 2008, 11:05 PM']Buying clothes invariably supports evil.
I'm going nudist.[/quote]

I thought that the idea was to AVOID scandal, not cause it ...

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='Veridicus' post='1587622' date='Jun 30 2008, 11:03 PM']I am not sure it matters. Americans are such hypocrites about all of these things. We won't allow sweatshops here but we don't mind buying from companies that employ them elsewhere. We don't want to drill for oil in ANWAR because of the ecological impact it may have...but we don't mind letting other countries destroy their own environments so we can buy their oil. It's all part of the same problem: we are hypocritical between our local and our global policies.

Sorry for the rant...it can be ignored.[/quote]

It's called [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimby"]NIMBYism[/url]. Welcome to America.

[lilac_angel]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1587723' date='Jun 30 2008, 10:48 PM']Most clothing companies use soft core to peddle their wares. I sew my own clothes to avoid the whole issue. No one wants to see me go nudist.[/quote]

Sewing's tough; that's cool.. takes a lot of patience to learn. I've altered shirts from the thrift store but that's as much as I've given a decent try.

PS - thanks for the prayers Catherine; you're definitely in mine too. I'm terrible at mail but know that you've been in my thoughts very often.

[Brigid]

I've never even been in an A&F...

I never have and never will buy their clothes. I know that they have (or if they don't any more, they used to have) nude models in their magazines. that's reason enough for me to not shop there. even if they've stopped doing that, I have more reasons not to shop there. their clothes are high priced, they plaster their brand name all over every item of clothing, and I can't even walk past their store without seeing several pictures of guys with their shirts off - I don't even want to think of what it's like inside the store.

I realize that there are pictures of guys with their shirts off in lots of stores, but it seems to me like A&F does it a little more, or at least more obviously.

[Selah]

pfft. Aeropostale is waaaay better.

And no, I don't think it's immoral to wear abercrombie and fitch. Unless you get something there that's really trashy looking...

[nowak.chris]

[quote name='Brigid' post='1587854' date='Jul 1 2008, 02:00 AM']... and I can't even walk past their store without seeing several pictures of guys with their shirts off - I don't even want to think of what it's like inside the store. [/quote]

They don't like their customers walking around w/o shirts though ([url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeBp8J0rqs"]111 guys tried it in NY[/url])

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='Veridicus' post='1587715' date='Jun 30 2008, 10:46 PM']There was an April geniuses Day hoax about his conversion back in 2005...it amounted to that alone, though: a hoax. I would say the lyrical composition of Tool's latest album suggests he is more on the side of theism than he used to be...although I would say its more of a new-age, embrace the eternal consciousness, almost hindu weirdness more than Christianity. I'm still praying for the guy![/quote]

thanks for the crushing news.

[quote name='Veridicus' post='1587725' date='Jun 30 2008, 10:49 PM']They are pretty much my favorite band...but some of their stuff is pretty dark lyrically so I'm not sure I should be exposing myself to it.[/quote]

that's why i don't listen to them anymore.


[quote name='Brigid' post='1587854' date='Jul 1 2008, 12:00 AM']I've never even been in an A&F...

I never have and never will buy their clothes. I know that they have (or if they don't any more, they used to have) nude models in their magazines. that's reason enough for me to not shop there. even if they've stopped doing that, I have more reasons not to shop there. their clothes are high priced, they plaster their brand name all over every item of clothing, and I can't even walk past their store without seeing several pictures of guys with their shirts off - I don't even want to think of what it's like inside the store.

I realize that there are pictures of guys with their shirts off in lots of stores, but it seems to me like A&F does it a little more, or at least more obviously.[/quote]

Yes, a friend of mine has SSA, and i know it is a huge struggle for him just to walk past their store. To me, if a clothing store's marketing campaigns are rooted in lust (especially considering their consumer target base of teens to mid-twenties), well, let's just say i am not a fan.

[HisChildForever]

They actually don't have high quality clothing there, considering their high prices. I'd only shop there if I have a gift card. Hollister is the same, though not as pricey. After wearing one t-shirt and washing it maybe two or three times, the material began to ball up.

[missionarybelle]

I don't wear their clothes because i don't support them as a company. Their avdvertising is disgusting and their clothes are sometimes very poor quality. I don't want my money to support them.

but even if somone gave me clothes from them i probably woulnd't wear it because i don't want others to think that I support them.

[Brother Adam]

It's a sin to waste money like that. $80 for a pair of beat up jeans with holes in them. Buy jeans for $20 at another store and give the $60 to charity if you have that much extra cash.

[XIX]

I agree with Brother Adam.

[kujo]

A&F never had any clothes that looked very good on me. I stick to Aeropostale...and look drop-dead gorgeous all the time.

J/K...of course...

[friendofJPII]

I still don't understand why a company would use naked people to advertise clothes?

[BlueRose]

[quote name='friendofJPII' post='1610999' date='Jul 28 2008, 08:41 PM']I still don't understand why a company would use naked people to advertise clothes?[/quote]

Hahaha - that's an excellent point.

Personally I don't like A&F. I like the nudist idea.

[friendofJPII]

[quote name='BlueRose' post='1611002' date='Jul 28 2008, 06:46 PM']Hahaha - that's an excellent point.

Personally I don't like A&F. I like the nudist idea.[/quote]

I voted "yes" it is immoral because of their blatant use of teenage sexuality in thier ads. Of course, they (sadly) are not the only company to do this, but they are more "in your face" about it. Besides most of their clothes are immodest.

[BlueRose]

[quote name='friendofJPII' post='1611025' date='Jul 28 2008, 09:18 PM']I voted "yes" it is immoral because of their blatant use of teenage sexuality in thier ads. Of course, they (sadly) are not the only company to do this, but they are more "in your face" about it. Besides most of their clothes are immodest.[/quote]

'Tis why I never shop there. Have you ever caught one of their catalogs? Lots of innuendo.

But I lean more toward the punky/coffeeshop style anyway. (Also A&F is expensive, as another failure...)

Edited July 29, 2008 by BlueRose

[Resurrexi]

Though I wouldn't say it's objectively wrong to wear A&F (so if I got a shirt from there as a gift I might wear it to sleep in) I don't shop there or wear their clothes because I don't want to give scandal.

[knightec]

It is okay to wear A&F. What is wrong is when the employees of the store tell people who can remember world war 2 that they will be cool if they dress like their teenage grandkids. My grandma does not need to be wearing the booty shorts and the halter tops.

[friendofJPII]

Yeah, I guess it is not objectively wrong for someone to wear A & F clothes if they were given as a gift. There is no "official Church teaching" on the matter, but I given their advertising, my conscience would lend me to avoid that store. Besides, in our mall, the rock music coming out of that store is so blaring, I don't want to go in.