Comments on: Case of the Shrinking Abercrombie Clothing Sizes

By: ADC

ADC — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:04:11 +0000

In reply to Wong. Thats just wong...

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:40:31 +0000

A major reason for this is the conflation of US sizing with Asian sizing. Drives me crazy as it has been going on for 10 plus ears. I am familiar with Asian sizing from living in Japan late 90’s and early 00’s. But drives me crazy when I go into a major retailer and their men’s section seems like boys section. Or looking at shirts in the large area of a rack and having stuff range from large to extra small all saying large. Freaking ridiculous. A normal American large from 15 years ago might be a 3x extra- large in Asian sizing. As far as an agenda goes I think it is laziness and a desire to see harmonization of sorts across the world. I believe it is stupid and unnecessary but if one visits any malls in any big city the demographics are pretty crazy. But still the men’s section should not be the teens section in terms of sizing.

By: cali

cali — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:21:44 +0000

In reply to James. Maybe you are insensitive.

By: cali

cali — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:20:28 +0000

In reply to Wong. you are rude, grow up

By: RobotShlomo

RobotShlomo — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:51:42 +0000

Anthony, you might have a point if the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch didn’t he wanted only thin “beautiful” people to wear his clothes. I’m not making that up, he actually SAID IT.

How do you make sure only thin beautiful people wear your clothes? To size them SMALLER.

And now that you have stores like Walmart who want to increase volume, the way they do that is to demand clothing manufacturers make their clothes CHEAPER. I have fruit of loom shirts I bought a few years ago, and I bought a couple recently at Walmart, and the recent buys shrank and are UNWEARABLE. And when those wear out what do you do? Buy another one at Walmart. Pound for pound Russell Athletic makes the best shirts on the market.

Clothing has gotten progressively WORSE over the last few years. Old Navy has redesigned their jeans to be “low rise”, to appeal to hipsters. Shirts all over are undersized. And everywhere you look the plague of “skinny jeans” proliferate our culture. Clothing manufacturers aren’t designing clothes for real people, they’re designing them for the d-bags you see in those in-store posters.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Mon, 25 May 2015 04:55:03 +0000

I’m glad other people noticed the changing size with Abercrombie & Hollister clothing. Maybe I’m an 80s birth child with a old fashion sense. But I notice they are making very short and lack of fabric clothing. They force us girls to bare our betty buttons by designing shirts that rises so high. Also, they cut our sleeves off very low that I feel like I’m showing my side boobs. Abercrombie, Hollister, forever21, American eagle, etc are most noticeable stores. My mom mentioned that the materials are cheaply made. Which are true because after I wash their clothes I notice they shrink a lot more. A size small is shrunk to a size xxs-appropriated for my 2 years old sister. My friends are wearing the clothes and I feel very wrong. It’s like they’re attracting the wrong attention (e.g. perverted men). I feel like my generation is being coerced into these styles. Don’t get me wrong there are clothes that are appropriated sizing and more fabric mend on them. Maybe our generation needs to make better choices?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 24 May 2015 12:17:36 +0000

Have any of you actually measured yourselves properly with a dressmakers tap measure recently? Could it be that you have put on weight So that you aren’t a 32 waist or whatever, like you were 15-20 YEARS ago!??

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 04 May 2015 00:25:31 +0000

I have the opposite issue, I’m a small stature guy and ordered two small sized muscle fit shirts. I’m naturally toned but like I said, I’m on the short side of the spectrum at 5’7. Anyhows, I put on one of the shirts and it’s baggy on the back and front, fits perfectly on my arms but no point wearing it unless I want to look like I’m wearing an expensive bin bag over myself.

By: Kenneth Christian

Kenneth Christian — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 02:41:02 +0000

I’m 6ft and 170 I normally wear large do u size up one when I’m buying from ambercombie

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:15:33 +0000

So, there are really still people that shops at Abercrombie? I like their outerwears, but their shirts at too short and the fabrics are cheap and those tshirts are just for kids, and midgets.