American Apparel’s Most Skanktastic Looks
Posted by: Leonora Epstein
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11:40AM, Thursday June 18th 2009
Sometimes we wonder if American Apparel isn’t just pulling our chain with each increasingly slutty product they put out. Some of these things seem like they were made solely to stir up controversy rather than for a profit. If that’s the case, Dov gets points for marketing smarts (which doesn’t effect his overall loss of points for being a total douchenozzle). Here, four AA items that outweigh the rest in terms of skankiness…
- As far as we’re concerned, mesh should die and forever rest in the fashion graveyard. Clearly this nylon spandex dress is all kinds of wrong, but the most ironic part about it is the long sleeves.
- Midrift for guys? No with a side of never. Steve Sanders called, he wants his third season look back.
- Wear this shiny bodysuit to your next audition for a B-grade porn movie.
- We’ve written about these assless tights before. Seeing them again makes us think this is a campaign for encouraging more butt sex.
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Ellis
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 11:43 am: [report]
Whyyyyyyyy do they make these things? And, more troubling, who actually buys them?
betty123
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 11:45 am: [report]
Steve Sanders…HA…priceless
likeOMGkbye
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 12:10 pm: [report]
I never understood the whole American Apparel craze. I like maybe one or two of their things here and there, but besides that I don’t get it. Its just weird most the time…I mean, what is the purpose of assless tights? They make that girls ass look weird, so I’m terrified of what mine would look like. I don’t want my butt jiggling around under my skirt for no reason.
And they keep trying to bring back scrunchies…give it up!
raqueleza
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 01:07 pm: [report]
I could’ve sworn that at one point, AA didn’t even show the “back” pictures of thong underwear. Now there’s gratuitous ass all over their online store.
Love their bandeau dress though.
Humble Bee
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 01:08 pm: [report]
I went to AA the other day and there were these 13 year old girls buying sequined panties, gold booty shorts, all kinds of slutty shi*t, they left it all on the counter and told the girl they’d be back with their moms credit card, ‘its like, the black one, you know the one you can spend all you want’ One of them said, doesn’t you school have a dress code? Apparently it was for a dance….
truthfully, I only shop at AA when I’m going to a really outrageous festival or concert but i’m in my twenties so that’s age appropriate, and even then I buy the most conservative thing at AA, like the sweetheart mini.
Katrina
wrote on June 18 2009 @ 01:10 pm: [report]
Another reason to dislike American Apparel: who wants to pay $30 for a t-shirt that you can get for $5 at Wal-mart - same color, same quality?
Anniekins
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 12:01 am: [report]
Someone please explain to me why people shop there? Ninety-five percent of their products are UGLY and look really cheap.
sunrise
wrote on June 19 2009 @ 06:53 am: [report]
@ Katrina- the reason American Apparel got big in the first place is because their stuff is all made in the U.S., and the workers are paid fairly and treated well. The Wal-Mart shirt costs you $5 because the person who made it was probably paid about 30 cents for it, or whatever the going rate at sweatshops is these days…
Purple Haze
wrote on June 20 2009 @ 02:08 pm: [report]
I can see the 3rd one as a pretty good superhero costume for Halloween, but other things need to die.
Alison Wonderland
wrote on June 20 2009 @ 09:39 pm: [report]
I do sort of want a pair of those thigh-high tube socks…
chouette
wrote on June 20 2009 @ 09:45 pm: [report]
AA gets on my nerves in general- I can barely fit into the clothes (even XL is tight) and I am not a large person. Stores like that just irk me. And the cropped man-shirt leaves too little to the imagination for my taste. That trail is not happy.
Tetrine
wrote on June 20 2009 @ 10:33 pm: [report]
I used to buy a lot of basics from AA back around 2005, before they seemed to become such a hit, and back then they actually seemed to have well priced items that made sense, not this over-sexed slutwear.
@Alison—the thigh high tubes are FABULOUS, I have about 4 pairs ... great for sleeping in during the winter (I can’t stand to sleep in pajama pants) and the bf likes them by themselves
... but, I’m in my 20s, so I feel like that’s appropriate! Hearing about those young girls buy such slutty stuff gives me the creeps.