Astral Codex Ten

Abercrombie & Fitch

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Abercrombie & Fitch

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Abercrombie & Fitch is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 16, 2022 and December 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Brand loyalty becomes a way to signal that you’re the kind of kid who buys their clothes at Abercrombie & Fitch”; “their Abercrombie & Fitch white safari blouses and tan gabardine jodhpurs”. It most often appears alongside Coke, 3D printing, AI.

Metadata

  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 16, 2022
  • Last seen: December 04, 2024

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Book Review: Sadly, Porn
February 16, 2022 · Original source
...more than this. It’s an obsession with what kind of person you are. Brand loyalty becomes a way to signal that you’re the kind of kid who buys their clothes at Hot Topic/Abercrombie & Fitch, not at Abercrombie & Fitch / Hot Topic. It’s not that one of these stores is more prestigious (= signals class) better than the other. It’s that they signal what makes...
...ssion with what kind of person you are. Brand loyalty becomes a way to signal that you’re the kind of kid who buys their clothes at Hot Topic/Abercrombie & Fitch, not at Abercrombie & Fitch / Hot Topic. It’s not that one of these stores is more prestigious (= signals class) better than the other. It’s that they signal what makes you, you. If you shopped jus...
Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House
December 04, 2024 · Original source
...was like a certain stock scene from the jungle movies of that period. Bruce Cabot and Myrna Loy make a crash landing in the jungle and crawl out of the wreckage in their Abercrombie & Fitch white safari blouses and tan gabardine jodhpurs and stagger into a clearing. They are surrounded by savages with bones through their noses - who immediately bow down and...
...reres was like a certain stock scene from the jungle movies of that period. Bruce Cabot and Myrna Loy make a crash landing in the jungle and crawl out of the wreckage in their Abercrombie & Fitch white safari blouses and tan gabardine jodhpurs and stagger into a clearing. They are surrounded by savages with bones through their noses - who immediately bow down and prostrate themselves and commence a strange moa...