Remember Abercrombie and Fitch in the 90s?

I do remember the period when, all of a sudden, every A&F in a mall near me had the shirtless boy whores standing outside the store. Always found that an odd marketing choice.

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ChaosAside@reddit

I remember the big brouhaha when their HUGE picture just inside the front door was a guys bare stomach that almost, saved by just millimeters, showed too much.

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CoverofHollywoodMag@reddit

https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/where-is-bruce-weber-now

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ManyLintRollers@reddit

I'm so old I remember Abercrombie & Fitch back in the '80s when it was sort of an outdoorsy-older-person store, like Orvis or Eddie Bauer.

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As noted in a response to a post below, A&F was part of the companies owned by Les Wexner, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein and the pedo/abusive culture bled right on down into the organization. The sexual abuse and exploitation within A&F was rampant.

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VolupVeVa@reddit

just bros bein bros

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JackfruitCrazy51@reddit

Those dudes may as well be crossing swords.

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Civil_Concentrate_23@reddit

Their stores STANK of cologne like they were constantly spritzing the cardboard fck boys. I could smell it before and after I passed by. It was boring and expensive.

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RudyRusso@reddit

Smelled like hatred.

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Stallone_Writer@reddit

"...the cardboard fck boys."! LOL

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Civil_Concentrate_23@reddit

It was grody to the max!

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ND_Poet@reddit

My brother liked their stuff so I called him Abercrombie’s Bitch.

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ColdMiserable8056@reddit

Have a listen to the BBC documentary about A&F. About the grooming and sexual abuse. It's as if Epstein had a retail chain.

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Bdbru13@reddit

Haven’t watched so idk if you meant that like…metaphorically or whatever the word would be, but A&F was owned by The Limited Inc. which was owned by Les Wexner

Wexner has deep ties to Epstein.

Their relationship was so tight that Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney that gave Epstein wide latitude to act on Wexner’s behalf, and, at one point, Wexner was Epstein’s only known client.

In 1998, Epstein was identified as president — along with Wexner — of The New Albany Company in Ohio business records. Epstein owned land in the New Albany development, including a house on King George Drive amid land owned by Wexner. Epstein owned the house from 1994 until selling it for $0 to the Wexners in December 2007

Epstein victim Maria Farmer has called him “the head of the snake” for whatever exactly was going on with Epstein, at least in North America

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jonvonfunk@reddit

I bought clothes at structure then.

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NVJAC@reddit

Yeah, I was never one of those guys (I was a bit too old by that point, as I'd gone through college during the grunge era).

It's actually made something of a comeback: How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again (economist.com)

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SmokyDragonDish@reddit

The CEO of Abercrombie was a sleeze and sort of a psycho.

He sexually abused his employees amongst other things.

Evidently, when he was removed from his position as CEO, he was in a conference room with racks of sample clothing with the designers.

Someone told him the board fired him and he just walked out. Didn't have an office or anything. Just walked out the door.

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ThrowRA--scootscooti@reddit

A dude in the class a year ahead of me was a professional model for maybe 5 years in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. Weird to see him on the wall in an A&F when I used to sit behind him in Spanish class. Now he’s back home running the family ranch in bumfuck, Kansas. Morbid story, but he lived just a few blocks from the World Trade Center. He said the smell was the exact same as branding cattle — the burning flesh and hair smell.

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