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An Obvious Opening for Cracks About Cleavage
The marketing images in question show less skin than you see any summer day at the beach. And certainly less than the plumber working on your kitchen sink. This is an incredible over reaction by city officials that would be comical except for its potentially serious legal implications.
It's still at least little comical, I think, especially since Abercrombie & Fitch thrives on this sort of attention. In this case, though, the chain may not have gone far enough: The posters have been hanging in hundreds of stores across the country since mid-January, but the Virginia Beach outlet is the only one where the manager has been asked to take them down. In addition to citing complaints from customers, a police spokesman "said the ads made it difficult for police to enforce city dress codes, specifically noting teens who wore droopy jeans."
[via Celebstoner]
Fluffy|2.6.08 @ 2:26PM|#
Wow, the probable cause standard for obscenity has fallen mighty
low.
The picture on the top shows less skin than most televised shampoo
ads.
Jennifer|2.6.08 @ 2:27PM|#
said the ads made it difficult for police to enforce city
dress codes, specifically noting teens who wore droopy
jeans
City dress codes? I am so glad I moved the hell
out of that neighborhood.
Taktix®|2.6.08 @ 2:32PM|#
A&F should release a series of ads in places like this,
where their nude-ish ads are banned, depicting local officials in
brown uniforms.
If they did that, I might stop thinking their clothes are
gay...
Episiarch|2.6.08 @ 2:37PM|#
If they did that, I might stop thinking their clothes are
gay...
Their clothes aren't gay. It's that going in their store makes you
gay.
disgruntled|2.6.08 @ 2:41PM|#
So the Virginia Beach donut eaters don't have enough to do
except flock to do the bidding of puritancial yentas?
What are they paying taxes for, anyway?
|2.6.08 @ 2:42PM|#
What? Nobody's made an Abercrappy and Fag joke
yet?
For shame, Hit N' Run, for shame.
|2.6.08 @ 2:47PM|#
City dress codes... wow...
I'm completely against those wuth the exception of my proposed
Burkas for Fat Chicks ordinance.
|2.6.08 @ 2:47PM|#
What a disgrace that a respectable purveyor of guns and tents like Abercrombie & Fitch could become an outfitter of metrosexuals. Shame, America, shame!
An adam|2.6.08 @ 2:50PM|#
disgruntled, it could be worse. They could take after their
neighbors next door in Chesapeake.
This is why I moved to Norfolk, where all the police have time to
do is investigate murders, and cite the occasional city councilman
for having a yard full of garbage (seriously).
|2.6.08 @ 2:55PM|#
Virginia Beach cop to Coppertone girl: "I'll get you my pretty. You and your mangy little dog too."
|2.6.08 @ 2:57PM|#
Warty,
Scroll
to the bottom of the page.
Relatively SFW (no nudity, but it is a rubber fetish page)
|2.6.08 @ 3:00PM|#
Vinyl burqas? I imagine there is porn of this.
Warty -- plenty of vinyl porn, no burqa porn at all. A niche
marketing opportunity?
|2.6.08 @ 3:04PM|#
SugarFree - The internet never fails to disgust me. Bird flu
needs to hurry up and mutate.
prolefeed - supposedly there's a lot of "Muslim porn" in France,
that's centered around the taboo of taking off the burqa and
headscarf and whatnot. I will hie to puretna.com and
investigate.
|2.6.08 @ 3:04PM|#
Law of Pan-Perversity
Anything you can think of, no matter how disgusting, banal or
obscure, somebody, somewhere, at some point, is sexually aroused by
it.
I formed this many years ago when I mused about the existence of
someone who masturbates to Jolly Green Giant commercials.
"Ho, ho, ho!"
[nngh!]
Lil Sprout|2.6.08 @ 3:15PM|#
"I formed this many years ago when I mused about the existence
of someone who masturbates to Jolly Green Giant commercials."
Up yours!
|2.6.08 @ 3:15PM|#
Rule 34 is a fine corollary. The Law of Pan Perversity of formulated before the Internet. It was an innocent time, when the wealth of pornography that exists was unknown to most.
|2.6.08 @ 3:17PM|#
"So the Virginia Beach donut eaters don't have enough to do
except flock to do the bidding of puritancial yentas?"
In 1975 the b*st*rds had better things to do. Like stopping cars
doing 2, that's right 2mph, over the speed limit. I am sure that
patrolling a bit of road that at 11:00 on a Sunday night would have
nothing but sailors on it had nothing to do with their decision to
stop me. (General Booth Blvd between Oceana & Damneck Rd - it
isn't now, but it was the sticks in '75) $100 plus for 2mph over
was big deal when I was making something like $478 a month. I hate
VA Beach!
|2.6.08 @ 3:17PM|#
Lil Sprout always thought he had the bug guy all to himself. Poor deluded brassica.
|2.6.08 @ 3:17PM|#
Anything you can think of, no matter how disgusting, banal
or obscure, somebody, somewhere, at some point, is sexually aroused
by it.
I suspect Bill Belichik whacks off to the scene in Patton
where George C Scott slaps the soldier with "battle fatigue."
Did I mention I'm not a fan?
|2.6.08 @ 3:31PM|#
joe, I'm saving all my criticism of you for Festivus. Then I'm gonna really let you have it. If you're lucky, I might even call you a turd.
|2.6.08 @ 4:16PM|#
Warty -- plenty of vinyl porn, no burqa porn at all. A niche
marketing opportunity?
prolefeed, for your approval, burqa
porn. Well, burqa cheesecake actually.
|2.6.08 @ 4:20PM|#
MayorOmalleySuxs
I was in Damneck in '75 going to SPS-39 school. Used to be farm
fields right outside the gate. Like you, I despised the local
constabulary.
Taktix®|2.6.08 @ 4:22PM|#
I suspect Bill Belichik whacks off to the scene in Patton
where George C Scott slaps the soldier with "battle
fatigue."
Unlikely. I have it on good authority that Belichick yanks it to
pictures of puppies drowning...
|2.6.08 @ 4:23PM|#
Didn't we have silly proposed legislation around the country
trying to regulate baggy jeans and other clothing generating
"butt-cleavage"?
Seems to fall in the same lunacy area.
Douglas Gray|2.6.08 @ 5:10PM|#
In these days of declining municipal revenues and budget shortfalls, does anyone bother to ask the question: Is this a good use of tax dollars that go to pay for law enforcement?
ChrisO|2.6.08 @ 5:32PM|#
Do you suppose the same rubes who dreamt up and enforce this ordinance criticize, or make fun of, Iran for enforcing laws about burqas and such?
nolan|2.6.08 @ 6:19PM|#
shit j sub, I really thought it would be cheesecake, not porn so
i clicked on it. in the middle of class.
doh!
Rusty T.|2.6.08 @ 6:34PM|#
shit j sub, I really thought it would be cheesecake, not
porn so i clicked on it. in the middle of class.
If I couldn't surf for porn during class I'd never make it through
the hour... hell, I probably never bother to go.
|2.6.08 @ 6:52PM|#
nolan -
Nude pictures don't fit my definition of porn. Well, Hustler
gynecological shots do, but not what I linked to. In retrospect, I
should have put a NSFW warning on it.
Sorry.
|2.6.08 @ 8:57PM|#
The scandal here is that there's such a thing as city dress
code. Time for the ACLU or another civil-rights organization to
bring a first amendment suit.
-jcr
heh2k|2.7.08 @ 2:40AM|#
VA Beach has become a mini nanny-state. There are even signs
every block on atlantic ave reminding people not to curse:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherdale/23860378/
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