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American Apparel Dress Code Or How to Dress Like A Douche

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Are good time vans going to come back into style as well? I think I saw that guy giving candy to kids in a video when I was in elementary school.
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What, exactly, are "Disco pants," and by extension "Disco shorts?" Actually, I'm not sure I want to know. Best part has to be the rule that a guy's hair should be "complimentary to skin tone and flatter features."
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This shit is egregious and the dude that runs the company sucks, but I ADORE their t-shirts. This is problematic.
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The guy who runs this company loves Ronald Reagan and Walmart. That automatically makes him an asshole. That he piles on being a fucking skeevy hipster douche on top of it makes me openly contemplate murder.
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Great, I didn't know that. Can I just beat the shit out of him and take a whole bunch of t-shirts?
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Yeah, if you ever feel like you need to punch something but lack the will, watch the cocksucker's Charlie Rose appearance. You can almost sense the erection he gets when quoting Reagan's line about make everything from the "Yukon to the Yucatan" a free trade zone. Really, the only way you can be under 40 and a huge Reagan fan is if you're a complete fucking moron or a raging fucking asshole. I think this guy is a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
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All of the sub-40 Reagan fans I know fall into either category, so I'm not going to disagree there.
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My friend's girlfriend has like a management position at American Apparel and she claims Dov Charney really is that creepy, if not creepier.

(All the same, I would totally buy the clothes in those photos if I weren't suddenly both fat and super poor. I've gone from Marc Jacobs pants and American Apparel shirts to like sweat pants and a shirt I found on the floor. I can't leave the house for fear of reflective surfaces, from which I now shirk since I look like shit.)

Also: as of recently, American Apparel's retail operation is like barely profitable; they would struggle to stay in business if it weren't for their highly profitable wholesale operation. For instance: Apple retail stores clothe all their workers in American Apparel tees. So ultimately, the company's retail operation is as much about Charney's ego as it is about profit: hence its weirdly fashionable/draconian strictures on retail workers and like increasingly egregious advertising in general.
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You're gonna clean up your diet and start exercising, right? [/jewish mother rant]
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Yeah, like I really, really need to, but my life kind of fell apart. These aren't even real sweat pants; they're "lounge pants" from Costco. I appreciate your concern, though, and I'm trying.
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You might want to make oatmeal--which bonds to and strips LDL cholesterol from your digestive tract--and raisins your default breakfast of choice and start doing core strength training exercise, i.e. push ups and sit ups. You'd be amazed at how quickly shit falls off if you eat healthy, control your portions, and start simple things to convert that fat to muscle.
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This shit is egregious and the dude that runs the company sucks, but I ADORE their t-shirts. This is problematic.
Try Alternative Apparel. Higher quality.
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I'll be goddamned. Thanks, Patrick.
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Originally Posted by Cuchulain View Post
You might want to make oatmeal--which bonds to and strips LDL cholesterol from your digestive tract--and raisins your default breakfast of choice and start doing core strength training exercise, i.e. push ups and sit ups. You'd be amazed at how quickly shit falls off if you eat healthy, control your portions, and start simple things to convert that fat to muscle.
Thanks, I'll try that. I'm kind of a huge oatmeal fan (plus it's cheap!) so at least that part shouldn't be hard.
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He's right, but if you're also strapped for money don't forget the importance of water intake and walking.
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dammit just go read the Going To The Gym thread in the Misc. Culture section already
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I'll take a look at it. Sorry to all for the (unintentional, I promise) derail, btw.
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I wasn't aware this place actually sold clothes. I thought they just hired porn starlets to take photos of when they're sometimes wearing some clothes (but still mostly not).
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I read though the list of recomendations for girls, and it doesn't seem too bad. It's basically just about not dressing obnoxiously, too much make up and jewelery ETC. Since when does a dress code which asks you to 'look natural' equal requiring you to dress like a "douche"??
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You've never walked into an AA, have you?
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You've never walked into an AA, have you?
I've been in there, but not in 2-3 years. I've only been to the mall three times in the past two years (as far as I remember)
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Much has changed since you last ventured to an American Apparel, young Kate.
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Originally Posted by Policar View Post
My friend's girlfriend has like a management position at American Apparel and she claims Dov Charney really is that creepy, if not creepier.

(All the same, I would totally buy the clothes in those photos if I weren't suddenly both fat and super poor. I've gone from Marc Jacobs pants and American Apparel shirts to like sweat pants and a shirt I found on the floor. I can't leave the house for fear of reflective surfaces, from which I now shirk since I look like shit.)

Also: as of recently, American Apparel's retail operation is like barely profitable; they would struggle to stay in business if it weren't for their highly profitable wholesale operation. For instance: Apple retail stores clothe all their workers in American Apparel tees. So ultimately, the company's retail operation is as much about Charney's ego as it is about profit: hence its weirdly fashionable/draconian strictures on retail workers and like increasingly egregious advertising in general.
Complete derail, and I'm sorry to pick on you, but I've never seen anyone type "like" as many times as you have in this post. It irks me when people insert it every other word in their everyday speech, but I cannot abide this impinging on message board posts. /rant

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program.
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Much has changed since you last ventured to an American Apparel, young Kate.
That is entirely possible. I basically dress the same way year round, regardless of season. I buy new clothes about once a year, unless there is something particularly awesome at goodwill ETC. Hence, little need for AA
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It irks me when people insert it every other word in their everyday speech
Be glad you're not here. You'd kill all three of my roommates, half of my friends, and myself (ON OCCASION I DO THE "LIKE" THING). And probably half the city.

Clearly Facebook has destroyed the fabric of society
post #27 of 56
Look American Apparel is shitty in some ways and admirable in some others. But, this kind of stuff is the norm at most stores. It's not particularly objectionable.
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I had to buy some emergency underwear (ask if you like but I'm not volunteering any more details) when I was traveling to Vancouver. Since American Apparel was the only store open that I could find downtown, I ended up buying it from there.

The moral of my story is: What kind of jerks doesn't put a dickhole in their men's underwear?
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I had to buy some emergency underwear (ask if you like but I'm not volunteering any more details) when I was traveling to Vancouver. Since American Apparel was the only store open that I could find downtown, I ended up buying it from there.

The moral of my story is: What kind of jerks doesn't put a dickhole in their men's underwear?
haha...I didn't even realize that they'd disappeared, but now that I think about it, not one pair of my underwear has that hole anymore, and they come from a bunch of different stores.
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I had to buy some emergency underwear (ask if you like but I'm not volunteering any more details) when I was traveling to Vancouver. Since American Apparel was the only store open that I could find downtown, I ended up buying it from there.

The moral of my story is: What kind of jerks doesn't put a dickhole in their men's underwear?
The kind of decent upright citizens who have enough forethought to design their underwear in order to prevent said member from popping out and traumatizing people? A better question would be (and I don't really want to know, so don't answer, it's a rhetorical question) why would you include such a hole in the first place?
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Hey everybody Pop Zeus shit his pants
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The kind of decent upright citizens who have enough forethought to design their underwear in order to prevent said member from popping out and traumatizing people? A better question would be (and I don't really want to know, so don't answer, it's a rhetorical question) why would you include such a hole in the first place?
...Kate, this is an example of you speaking without knowing what the hell you're talking about. Men, when peeing, use holes in their underwear.
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I want to know what world PK lives in that male membranes randomly pop out at her.
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Patrick,

Fair enough

Diva,

I just don't want to risk it.

Anyway... That's all I have to say about this subject. Bye now!
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...Kate, this is an example of you speaking without knowing what the hell you're talking about. Men, when peeing, use holes in their underwear.
Seriously? I've never ever done that. For me, it's always been a lot easier to just reach in and pull my shit up and over the elastic waistband, then letting go and having the balls keep the band in check.

Reaching in a fabric hole and pulling out your dick, peeing, then tucking it back in seems to make a lot more sense to me.
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I want to know what world PK lives in that male membranes randomly pop out at her.
Men are so virile in small town Massachussets that their genitals can't be contained by mere pants and underwear.

Seriously, I'm befuddled her moral outrage. How do you not know that male underwear has a hole for the penis so we can pee?
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I want to know what world PK lives in that male membranes randomly pop out at her.
A world...with pizza.

And yeah, I just read an article on Charney and how AA might be boned if they don't pull off a pretty big funding deal here pretty soon, and he sounds like a pretty big dickhead.
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A world...with pizza.

And yeah, I just read an article on Charney and how AA might be boned if they don't pull off a pretty big funding deal here pretty soon, and he sounds like a pretty big dickhead.
Only erotic pizza with erotic toppings.
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Look American Apparel is shitty in some ways and admirable in some others. But, this kind of stuff is the norm at most stores. It's not particularly objectionable.
Agreed. I don't see the problem, other than Jake's AA career prospects are out the window.

Also Armisen's Charney was pretty great.
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The issue isn't that they have a dress code. It's that they require their employees to look like giant tools. As well as the specificity of the toolness. "One bracelet per hand, max of 2cm in width." I mean, really?
post #41 of 56
Which would make more sense at Home Depot, or Lowes.
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Hey everybody Pop Zeus shit his pants
Ha! I WISH.

(kidding!)
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The issue isn't that they have a dress code. It's that they require their employees to look like giant tools. As well as the specificity of the toolness. "One bracelet per hand, max of 2cm in width." I mean, really?
My sister in law worked at The Gap and I don't think it was that far off in terms of "dress like how we model our clothes." This seems the like the same.
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When I worked at the GAP we just had to wear what they sold, I never saw a problem with it. Given that I bought their clothes at a discount and try to make myself presentable. So I never had a problem with it.
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Fuck you devin(said in all manner of jest because of this thread) for that picture rule. This thread deserves green box pictures without accompanying text all around.
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When I worked at the GAP we just had to wear what they sold, I never saw a problem with it. Given that I bought their clothes at a discount and try to make myself presentable. So I never had a problem with it.
So no Disco Pants?
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that AA guy Charney could cunt-punch the elderly for all I care and I'd continue to buy his plain crew-neck tees. Hell if it could be proven that he cunt-punched the elderly I would spend twice as much of my money there. I don't care for the elderly.
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Be glad you're not here. You'd kill all three of my roommates, half of my friends, and myself (ON OCCASION I DO THE "LIKE" THING). And probably half the city.

Clearly Facebook has destroyed the fabric of society
Oh come on, the Valley Girl pre-dates Facebook by about 30 years.
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Do the grammatical errors in all those internal memos bother anyone else as much as me? It's like they hired high school drop-outs to make up rules for other teenagers. And I think that's actually the case with some of their stores.
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Be glad you're not here. You'd kill all three of my roommates, half of my friends, and myself (ON OCCASION I DO THE "LIKE" THING). And probably half the city.

Clearly Facebook has destroyed the fabric of society
Diva should be happy she's not in San Diego. Like, Dude, and Awesome are used here, like, a lot.
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