Feminism in News and Popular Media

[Allison W]

Originally Posted by femmeInterrupted

Have you ever wondered why Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing?

Well, CEO Mike Jeffries can put an end to your curiosity, though his response may make you never want to shop at the teen retail store ever again.

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the Salon. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely."

Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch doesn't stock XL or XXL sizes in women's clothing because they don't want overweight women wearing their brand.
They want the "cool kids," and they don't consider plus-sized women as being a part of that group.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aberc...#ixzz2SvUPwh1e

...But I bet they stock XL and XXL in men's sizes. (I'd have checked the article, but I can't get it to load. It seems that my neck of the woods has been having DNS problems for the past several days.)