If I want Holister/Abercrombie girls should I wear Holister/Abercrombie?

[spade_of_aces]

The hate for Abercrombie, Hollister, Affliction et. al comes from the fact that guys wear them because they think it gives them style, makes them fashionable. They see a bud of theirs sportin a shirt with abercrombie plastered across the chest, see him hook up with a hot girl, and decide that maybe it wouldn't hurt to go buy an abercrombie shirt or two. Before you know it you have an entire frat house of guys wearing practically the same logo'd tee only in different colors, all thinking they have this style game all figured out. They dont experiment and find something that works for them and conveys their unique personality, instead they just fade into the crowd. And the crowd of guys who stereotypically wears affliction and abercrombie, like it or not, is the drunken college frat-douche. I know a few legitimately cool guys who still wear this style, but for the most part anybody who wears the words "Abercrombie and Fitch" is effectively saying to me "I'm a chode and could never have any sort of meaningful friendship with you."

Back to the original question: I've had success at my college wearing a sort of edgy-clean look. I'll wear nice jeans, a plain fitted button up partially or totally open with a cool tee/tank underneath and dress shoes. Its a similar look; basic, clean clothes that fit well only dont have huge logos across the chest.

[TrueStory]

Originally Posted by spade_of_aces

The hate for Abercrombie, Hollister, Affliction........

Oh no! There is no hate. I give respect to Abercrombie and Hollister, or Express, Ruehl, or even GAP, but I have NO RESPECT for Affliction, Ed Hardy, or Hurley..........


Why?

A&F, Hollister are well established brands. They are respected nationwide. Their style is in good taste, and even though every other guy wears it, it's still acceptable by major fashion industry leaders.

Ed Try Hardy and Affliction on other hand is garbage trying to go for "Designer" look. It makes me throw up when i see every chode in Affliction trying to act alpha because he got a "designer" shirt. Every single guy i've met, wearing affliction crap had NO STYLE or game. Period. Ed Hardy is just a bunch of old dudes got together and decided to put tattoo art on clothes. Wow! what a brilliant idea, except it looks ugly as sin.

Hurley......if you're not a skateboarder don't wear it.

I even respect Lacoste...because they have image.

Blah, sorry for the rant

[cagalindo]

yea whats with the hate on affliction
they have mostly good designs

[TrueStory]

I have a very strong European feel towards fashion. Affliction is pretentious commercialism in it's prime.

for sake of argument:
- The quality is poor, for the price
- If you don't pay attention to fashion leading trends, open GQ, if you find Affliction ad, I'll buy you a beer or five. I don't care. lol
- It's tasteless. I do art design; I have good sense in color coordination: Affliction doesn't. Their design is "rebellious". Commercially speaking it has potential. Artfully speaking it's doomed to fail.
- It's fairly new brand (circa 2005) doesn't have any major designers backing it up.
- It's piggy backing on MMA trend started throughout US. I have full respect to MMA practice but I don't understand or like commercial drive behind the Affliction promoting MMA. Nike makes sports clothes, Addidas makes sports clothes, affliction makes "designer" t-shirts, how does it relate to MMA sport? I think Affliction is disrespect to Mixed Martial Art practitioners.
- Donald Trump on this whole deal....and as you know Donald Trump is about making money, not promoting art. Affliction is just a commercial driver.
- And the fact that they rely on celebrity promotions (including WWE fighters) just re-enforces the trashiness and tasteless of the brand.
- Skull and Bone has NEVER been fashionable. Goths, emos and outcasts wore skulls and bones;
reference: Affliction Clothing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Don Ed hardy.

- Great tattoo artist, shitty designer.
- Greatly overrated as fashion brand, however, his art is sick
- Too over-worn by "artsy-wanna-be" fashion rebels
- Again, fairly new brand, not established, not completely approved by fashion industry leaders.

.....those are MY reason for not liking either brand. It's my pet peeve.

[JNasty5]

I've received a ton of compliments from wearing monarchy t-shirts....yeah they're goth looking but that mold well to your body and if you have a defined body, it really shouts out to girls, "wow he works out and looks great".....still it all depends on what age group of girls your trying to game. Highschool, college, or european girls in general dig that look. Are you going to be very successful with older women with these t-shirts?...No and therefore you wear something more classy. For those who say you should just stick with a look that best fits your personality, I don't buy into that. Part of becoming a great PUA is trying news things (openers, compliance testing, negs, false disqualifiers, peacocking, etc.) Try different styles and figure out what styles give you the best responses from girls. Put yourself out there and along the way youll develop your own style through trial and error. Hope this helps at all

[Plasma]

True Story. I'm interested in what brands you do wear as far as t-shirts and ls shirts go. Do you completely stay away from graphic tees?

[TrueStory]

Originally Posted by Plasma

True Story. I'm interested in what brands you do wear as far as t-shirts and ls shirts go. Do you completely stay away from graphic tees?

Diesel, Guess, DKNY, D&G, Polo (not much), Armani, I also have some Express from my college days, Marc Ecko (stitch and sew line), Abercrombie, Reuhl,
Shoes: steven madden, primarily

I wear graphic tees, I just don't like the image/association Afflication/Ed Hardy has. I think it's amateur fashion. And I am not a metro-sexual fashion Nazi, I just prefer more established brands.

[RoarkinVertigo]

Wow I wasn't able to check my mail for a few days and just noticed this thread...love it.

My New Clothing Opener:

Me:"Yo bitches..."

Hot Girls: "Whatup?"

Me: "Which is better affliction or holister?"

Hot Girls: "blah blah blah "

Me: "The reason I ask is cuz some off my online friends and I were blogging about which one would get us laid better..."

Hot Girls: "Do us Roarkin!!!"

jp

[Psilite]

You really don't have to "overthink" the whole situation, just wear something that's congruent with your style.

If you're going for the rocker look, I'd wear tight pants with high designer tees along with the congruent hairstyle (i.e: spikey hair, mohawk, front hair combed over, etc).
I've got the hip-pop look, so I usually wear Marc Ecko, South Pole, Sean John and Rocawear. I also wear a lot of bling

The point really is not to blend in.

[Chince Parming]

Originally Posted by CaliKing

no, dont wear affliction, or hollister, or abercrombie. if you do, you will look like an idiot

I second that motion good sir. Alot of the "fashion" these brands use are just strapping thier names in HUGE BOLD LETTERS across the front and having a light background to make it stand out more. Affliction if ok but I think they are trying TOO hard. If you want an abercrombie brand go with Ruehl (Sp?) they cater to an older audience