I want to bone American Apparel.

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Those ads bring out the worst in me. Or the best.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It might leave stains that even Shout won't get out.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't the CEO a major perve? I read some brief article that said he takes all the dirty polaroids himself.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelly is half-East Indian, half-Irish, half Thai. She just started working for our new American Apparel store in Winnipeg, although she often volunteers at our three sites in Mexico City. She says she loves working for American Apparel because of the camaraderie of all of the other girls, three of whom she shares an impossibly hip flat with. Sometimes they make out. She is wearing a solid blue unisex tank top and athletic shorts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

A buddy of mine who's a print broker went down to their HQ and said he's convinced that all the hot girls that work there have been sent to charm school. He was blown away.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Kari works at our American Apparel store in New York, where the staff regularly touch her in uncomfortable ways and make inappropriate comments about her breasts -- which, to be fair, are large and beautifully shaped. She is seen here in a wet t-shirt through which her nipples are visible.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't the CEO a major perve? I read some brief article that said he takes all the dirty polaroids himself.

Yup, and he's currently being sued by former employees for sexual harrassment (no surprise).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Guys guys guys can't you see that these ads are a barely restrained and vicious critique of American society as a whole?!?! "AMERICAN APPAREL" = t-shirt (extrapolated out into "tyranny-shirt") made "transparent" (see-thru, as in "see through the tyranny") by the refreshing and cleansing force of "water" (i.e., the persistance of the worker's rebellion against the overseers, like the constant and powerful tides of the ocean) to expose the "nipples" (i.e., the plight of the underpriviliged - they are brown and wrinkly, how much more obvious can a metaphor be?). Give American Apparel some credit, dudes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, THEM BITCHES BE FINE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.ifightlikeagirl.com/images/capsleeve2.gif

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I gotta get me one of them tyrrany shirts. Sounds hardcore.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

you have the breasts for them

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Outside of the rampant sexual harrassment and free love in the workplace, the guy is helping to set a model for ethical business in the US... and he's doing quite well. Radiohead and all those poseurs must buy AA tour shirts or they look like dicks.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe Dov just threatens to jizz in th0m yorke's good eye

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't stand their ads because they always look like the shitty faux-Wolfgang Tilmans/Terry Richardson/Nan Goldin/etc crap I had to see all the time when I was a photo major in the late 90s/early 00s. That stuff will never look hot to me, only really lame and icky.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked the "real girls" and the overall smuttiness of the ads for a while. selling ethical business practices wrapped in amateur porn aesthetics is quite slick. somewhere along the line ads started to turn my stomach.

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Why do people never use the kind of "real girls" that I think are cute in ads? It's always the super thin "exotic" version of "real girls."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I really wish Sean C. was still hosting the American Apparel/Head Games corporate-ad album cover on his server.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

In real life, most of the AA girls (I see them out in LA all the time) are shorter than "standard" model-types. They are exotic but quite real for LA. They're not "knock-outs" at all.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you have to be over 5'9" to be a knock-out? Does the height add gravitas? (This is a serious question, I'm not baiting you Spencer)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

They are exotic but quite real for LA.

I hate it when you say shit like this, Spencer. You make me feel like a schmuck for moving back to the Mid West.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Kate Moss is 5'7" which was quite odd for the time... I think shorter models are becoming more common these days, but the catwalks need HEIGHT for the clothes to drape properly.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Good question. I didn't mean to equate them in my statement. However, I would cautiously say that yes, a "knock-out" is going to be tall - there's a physicality to the term. However, a "hottie" (which might imply someone shorter) can be equally attractive.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(that's xpost to Jocelyn)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't the midwest farmers' daughters really make you feel alright? xpost.

― andy --, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

That reminds me of this exchange from Newsradio:
Lisa: Alright, look I did not ask for the stupid award.
Beth: If I were you I'd be upset too. I mean you? Cute? Come on.
Lisa: I am not entirely uncute. I... I... Why are you being nasty about this?
Beth: I'm not being nasty. You're pretty. You're very pretty in fact. But cute, I don't think so.
Lisa: Well I wasn't aware there was a difference.
Beth: Well of course there is a difference. Pretty means pretty. Cute means pretty but short and/or hyperactive - like me.
Lisa: Uh huh. What is beautiful?
Beth: Beautiful means pretty and tall.
Lisa: Gorgeous?
Beth: Pretty with great hair.
Lisa: Striking?
Beth: Pretty with a big nose.
Lisa: OK, you're making this up.
Beth: That's ridiculous, why would I make it up?
Lisa: Voluptuous?
Beth: Pretty and fat.
Lisa: Sexy?
Beth: Pretty and easy.
Lisa: Exotic?
Beth: Ugly

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

bwaaahahahahaha

Beth makes me want to bone.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost: LOL

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

There is a lot of truth in that.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

On my last flight I had a stopover in Winnipeg and was seating next to this prairie FREAK that was 5'11, slim, racked, and THIRTEEN bloody years old. All the dudes incl. me would stare at her at first but then when they saw her face up close our brains quickly and uncomfortably exploded.

That's funny that the CEO is a perv - here teh guy who runs Happy Planet all-natural fruit beverages got the same charges, he looks exactly like the kind of halfway-hippie-but-still-moneyed-mook-at-heart look that a lot of dudes taking the ethical angle approach to getting bank + booty.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Newsradio always reminds me of this line:

Bill: Here it is the personal shiatsu massager chair, observe it has shiatsu mode, swedish mode, and... WEEKEND IN THAILAND.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost that was re: farmers daughters

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

They're feedin' 'em some scary shit in the midwest. We're going to have 8 year olds working at Hooters pretty soon.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

hototototot

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

not 8 year olds at hooters. AA girls, which I have crushes on, no matter how stupid the ads are.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.golfinternationalmag.co.uk/newsimages/Mar05/wie_23.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

did anyone else read the interview in jane magazine awhile back? Dov masturbates in front of women all the time. and did it in front of the reporter, too. he claims it's a good release (you know, of stress & 'other' things).

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 5 August 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

yup.

american apparel-C/d?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 August 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

american apparel -- all the ads seem to involve a girl with a pit stain or two. it'll get so much better when they start involving tampon strings hanging out all over the place.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

mmm... just makes you want to remove it with your teeth, doesn't it?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sorry. I just grossed myself out.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

well I'm sure that's what they'd want you to want! yep!

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I really wish Sean C. was still hosting the American Apparel/Head Games corporate-ad album cover on his server.

(It's still there, server was just down yesterday.)

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/foreigner.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

nice

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Lauren works at the American Apparel store in New York City, and is a very heavy drinker.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you have to be over 5'9" to be a knock-out? Does the height add gravitas? (This is a serious question, I'm not baiting you Spencer)

-- jocelyn (nalra...) (webmail), August 5th, 2005 2:04 PM. (Jocelyn) (later) (link)
RIDING GIANTESS

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Sunday, 7 August 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

yea, so of course i'm the person who's usually all about the american apparel ads. but then the other day, i was walking, and my stomach hurt. and i saw one of these, with like the girl in a silver leotard? it was upsetting a little.

― Surmounter, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.americanapparel.net/storefront/UGCStyle/BestBottom2010/

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Doug
January 29, 2010
"looks like she is about to take a dump"

― velko, Friday, 29 January 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

wow @ the girl with the assless panties.

― Joint Custody (ian), Friday, 29 January 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

I think it's a jock strap

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 29 January 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

The L.A. clothing maker reports double-digit sales declines and a $9.5-million quarterly loss. It also warns of 'substantial doubt' about its ability to remain in business.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-american-apparel-20101110,0,5064696.story

― buzza, Thursday, 11 November 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link

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