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Have They Gone Too Far?

By Janet Evans
Sunday, Feb 3 2008, 01:00 PM

If you haven't been in the actual store, I'm sure you've walked past one at either Brookfield Square or Mayfair.

They are dark, and shuttered.

They smell strongly of cologne...it pours out of the entryway.

Handsome young people, usually men, are standing inside near the doors...sales clerks.

I'm talking about Abercrombie & Fitch

The chain has been in past news before regarding their provocative ads and for charges of racist hiring policies.

They are in the news again. 

They have a new ad campaign of photos out where one photo includes three twenty-something guys in a field, shirtless, their backs to us, all appearing to be pulling up their jeans as they walk away.  One of them has some of his buttocks showing as he is pulling them up.

Walking behind them is the slight figure of a female, who is shadowed.

In Virginia Beach, police seized this mural and charged the manager with obscenity charges.

Children are allowed to enter the store and these photos are not proper, is what's been said.


Read the article


Virginia Beach Police Seize Photos From Abercrombie Store  Ã here



Has the Abercrombie & Fitch gone to far in their ads?

Did the police go to far?

What do you think?


Comments

Carol   

There is nothing obscene about it. Racing through the fields towards a cool pond on a hot summer day to go skinny dipping with your brother and his gay friends. Come on, who hasn't done that?

February 3, 2008 2:13 PM

Paul Gallagher   

If that's porn, then most plumbers are in a heap of trouble.

February 3, 2008 2:25 PM

Janet Evans   

Have to say, that's a good one, Paul!

Seriously though...

I don't think their ads are obscene...

But their store doesn't hide the fact that their ads are provocative.

It's just not the type of store for everyone.

They ARE blocking the windows.

They do sell children's clothes though - at least online.

February 3, 2008 6:41 PM

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