Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch

Shopping at Abercrombie is like Soooo 2003

Let's cut right to the chase. Here are the Top 10 reasons why you should not buy clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch. Some of the reasons have to do with the clothes themselves. Others have to do with the culture surrounding the clothes, a culture defined by being super-thin, super-shallow and super-snooty. Here goes:

10. The clothes are way overpriced. $70 for a pair of jeans? $68 for a basic button-down shirt? $88 for a sweater? Come on. I mean I know some brands charge several hundreds of dollars for their clothes, but they're marketing to wealthy adults, not 16-year-olds who work at CVS. And the prices wouldn't be so bad except...

9. The quality of the clothing, and specifically the jeans, is highly questionable. I bought two pairs of jeans from Abercrombie about two years ago, before I wised up. Usually I spend between $30 and $40 on a pair of jeans at other stores and they last me until I get sick of them and throw them out.

I spent $60 each on these two pairs and within one year they were both full of holes and unwearable. Patches to cover the holes would have been pointless. The holes were huge. And there was no reason for them. I hadn't worn the jeans more often than any others. Probably less, actually. And I hadn't been playing rugby in them, so there was no unusual wear and tear.

It just came down to poor quality. Maybe that's the point, though. Maybe they want you to end up in really holy jeans so you can walk around half-naked, like most of the models in their ads. Which leads me to my next reason not to buy clothes at Abercrombie...

8. Have you seen the Abercrombie ads? In the store, in magazines, and in their own, now-defunct-because-it-was-too-racy magazine/catalog, A&F Quarterly? One word: softporn. And do you really want to be subjected to softporn when you go to buy a T-shirt?