For several years, I've refused to let my daughter wear some shirts with slogans like "brat" or "spoiled" because they have such negative connotations. Of course, the shirts have progressed to more suggestive and degrading phrases over time. This fall I saw a shirt at Limited Too that said "I go to school to see my friends". Amusing, perhaps, but I can't support that kind of attitude. Obviously "I go to school to learn" isn't nearly as funny.

Anyway, some girls in PA have gotten fed up with the t's at Abercrombie and Fitch and have decided to have a girlcott. I love it! Some girls with a little common sense. I first saw this on the DC (NBC4) news. It appears they were also on the Today show. I found an article related to it as well, link below. So how does everyone else feel about it?

girlcott

Abbie and fitch remind me of those snooty,nasty,mean-spirited people in school,who would derive great pleasure and boost thier selfesteem on hurting others. Nasty comments that they thought were funny, but in fact were very hurtful to others. I never liked them then and I don't like anything or anyone that is the same sort. I say not just girls should cott them. They don't sound like a store or firm I would want to do business with.

If you'll remember back, a year or so ago, A&F also stirred up controversy with their "It's all relative in WV" t-shirt.

I agree, snooty & nasty. The kind of folks I'd group Paris Hilton with.

I've never been in the store, but I've seen some of their catalogs. They'd best not count on getting any of MY money!

Hasn't A&F been in trouble before?

Something about their thongs, aimed to young girls, with phrases like "eye candy"?

And tee-shirts with Chinese laundry dudes that said something like "Two wongs don't make it white"?

A&F are slimeballs who aim sexual marketing at young teens. I heard one of their catalogs was almost porn. Some of the shirts mentioned on TV for girls said things like "With these, who needs brains?" and "Boys like tig ole bitties" -- crap like that which is totally inapporpriate for young kids and, if worn by older people, would be tacky.

Parents who let their kids wear this crap need a nice rap on the head to wake 'em up!

It is nice to see there are young teens with more brains than many adults. I support their efforts.

Having sons, I never had to go through the clothes arguments that I hear about from moms with daughters. My sister and her husband lay down the law if my neice wants to wear belly shirts or other clothes too revealing, and she actually listens to them. Thankfully, she thinks the shirts that say things are "stupid," which I agree.

I think it's awesome that there are girls out there taking a stand against A&F...more power to 'em!

I support that. Be a kid, not a grown whore. But to be honest, I had a nasty tshirt when I was a teenager.

I had the "unbutton your fly."

So tacky.

DH recently saw a girl--about 7 or 8, he guessed--who wore a shirt reading: "Objects beneath are larger than they appear."

A&F is quite an old company…dealt exclusively with sporting goods. My pop has an old 28 gauge SXS shotgun sporting the A&F moniker. However, they were once a high end outfitter and catered to the more “upscale” outdoors enthusiast. Pop has said that the one located in NYC used to be a tourist attraction of sorts (think Cabelas).

Who knew they would later come to clothe every frat boy across America and feature a pornstar in their quarterly…

While I wouldn't let my kids where anything that racy I do have several T's
that get some nasty looks when I wear them. And thats exactly the reason I wear them. My porn star T usually gets either a laugh or a head shake

"two wongs don't make it white" sorry, but thats funny!

I had no idea!

Stupid, stupid parents.

I find it hard to even get shoes for my daughter that aren't high-heeled. WTH are parents thinking???

I have a pair of underwear with that written on the front...

Just looked at their site and some of their shirts are hilarious! all are pretty raunchy though. heres a couple of them

Will spoon for poon

I mow your moms lawn

I love your mom


Yoss is getting a Will spoon for poon T-shirt for xmas

I posted something about a nasty tshirt in the junior miss section at JC Penney, but I can't find it.

Edit: Can't find it. It was something ridiculous like "I'll steal your boyfriend."

I heard a fitting word recently..."PROSTITOTS."

I've even seen some slutty ones in the juniors section in Wal Mart. Not as nasty as A&F, but still "prostitot-ish" (good word, H )

I had a shirt back in the 80's that I got from a local t shop that was dark brown and across the front where a pocket would be it had tiny little white letters that said: Nosey little #ucker,aren't you?
You should've seen peoples faces when they read it,because they had to get real close to do so! I wore that thing out.
I've got : DIE YUPPY SCUM(boy,does that get looks! )
PRODUCT OF THE 70'S(with a peace sign.I like that one)
HAPPY CAMPER(with a guy on the front with a hat on that makes him look like a Ranger)

I prefer shirts with some wit to them.Some of these shirts people wear makes them seem like they don't have any kind of sense or class for that matter.

I actually have a lot of shirts with messages, but I don't wear them very often.

Wife beater beater (a beater tank top with a picture of a woman kicking a guy in the groin)

I Love Carbs

Runs With Scissors

Procrastinators Unite Tomorrow

I just have T's that are from places I've vacationed or places I've worked...oh, and a couple of Harley shirts of course!

I was walking behind a pre-teen girl at the Boonsboro Carnival a year or two ago that was wearing one of those air brushed t-shirts that you buy at the stands. It said on the back in really big writing "Go to Hell!" Very nice!

When I still lived in NY and A&F was in business there (quite a while ago), I used to frequent the store... it was strictly a very high grade sporting goods outlet... the only clothing was basically what the well dressed (rich) outdoorsman would need to go hunting or fishing.
However, with the changes in firearms laws in NYC and the declining economy at the time, the company went under. The A&F you see know is not the same company... the rights to the name were sold and what you see know is the result... I believe is the original founders could see what happened to the company they would be spinning in their graves...

BTW, here is a link to the girls T shirts... just the messages I want my little girl to wear to school... NOT

http://www.abercrombiekids.com/webapp/wcs/...tId=2&langId=-1

I didn't birth that word. Just heard it somewhere. Can't take credit for it.

But adding "ish" makes it even funnier.

I didn't birth that word. Just heard it somewhere. Can't take credit for it.

But adding "ish" makes it even funnier.


PROSTITOTISH!

Nice! I only wish they came in 2T for my daughter. I want to get her started early. I am also still looking for those joggng pants that have writting across the rear end- Bootie Call! (NOT!)

I'm with ya, CPD. I have had to put back really cute outfits when I realized there was stuff written across the butt. I don't need people looking at my daughter's rear, thank you very much.

So glad I don't have to worry with this kind of stuff.

Heck, I've had to put pants back on the rack for myself! I thought they were really cute until I saw the crap written on the back of them

I don't want anybody reading my butt!

"Wide Load"?

just kidding Naomi, you're a Babe! (saw your pic on the other web site, just so people don't think I'm stalking you!)

I believe those are MY pants thank you very much!!

I used to have a pair of sweats that said "hottie" across the butt. But I never wore them in public. They were so comfy! Mom tried to read it one day and said, "hot tie? what's that?" The seam in the butt crack kinda separated the letters.

20 years ago, when I had my first '69 Chevelle, my brother had a shirt custom made for me. He had my Chevelle air brushed onto the front of it, and the number 69 put on the back. Back then, that was considered a bit risqué.

I was working at Andrews AFB, and on the NAF Bowling League. That became my bowling shirt, and I had so much fun wearing that shirt! After all, it was just a portrait of my car, and if nobody believed me, I could show them that it was parked right in front of the building.....

"Wide Load"?



Well, I do have a little "junk in the trunk!"

lol, I love it!

two of my fav shirts:
Kiss me, I'm Irish
Yes, they're real (written across the chest)

We were vacationing on a little island in Ohio this summer. I found a really cute t-shirt with matching shorts. However, on the back of the shorts was the name of the island....Put-in-Bay. I got the shirt but not the shorts

I 've got one that has a pirate babe in a skull/crossbones corset that says: Captain Prepare To Be Boarded.
I've gotten some comments from other women about where I bought it.

A good friend in college had a T-Shirt that he called his "F*** shirt" It was covered, front and back, with statements condeming everything and anything... you know - "F*** School", "F***" this, "F***" that... I remember one of them was "F*** virgins". But , umm, the f-word was spelled out completely each time.

Then there was my buddy who had a bumper sticker that said "Don't laugh, your daughter may be in here" and knowing him, it was most likely true at one time or another - he went out with a different girl every day of the week, and he had NO standards, if you know what I mean.

Heather those sweats must not have been tight enough, if it looked like two words.

I think a few of those T's they're freaking out over are indeed too much, but I suspect some of the others only anger those who are too fat, too ugly, or too poorly-endowed to get away with wearing them.

D.C - area TV news guy McGinty put this issue into perspective nicely. He read an e-mail from one viewer who expressed the opinion that she thought they were kind of cute and in fact wears the one that says "Who needs brains when you've got these?"

He said that someone he knew was incensed over these t-shirts and exclaimed loudly that "I would NEVER allow my 12-year-old to wear one of those!" - to which he very calmly replied "then don't buy her one".

Figure that if nobody wants to wear them, then nobody will buy them and they'll eventually stop selling them.

That's no good we need the government to pass some great law that would make them quit selling those offensive shirts.

only because he's running for office is he saying anything. probably wouldn't hear a peep out of him otherwise.

Who needs offensive t-shirts? We have the offensive Shout Box.

thats right little man. if it's SO ofensive,get lost yuppy puppy.don't start shit. mind your own bees wax too!

Mind my own business? You're the one posting on a public forum.

Why all these personal attacks? Little man? Yuppie?

Hm...... This fellow's first name happen to start with a T ?

My hubby has a tee shirt that says "FBI" and under that is says "Female Body Inspector". He also has a tee shirt with a picture of Osama being bent over and a missle being shoved up his you know what.

I've got one that I think is cute, but if your not old enough to remember the commercial, you might think it is offensive. It has the owl on it from the old tootsie pop commercials and says "How many licks does it take?".

2 favs

GOT BREAST MILK?

Fah Que

Greedy!
My 3 year old had a romper that he wore as a baby with that saying on it!

Naw... an "M".

What the hell is a "romper"?