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[lprkn]

Well, you never know when you'll need some easily-shuckable slacks at work. No shirt probably just makes the whole process simpler.

[pmcd9]

And this is the dude that owns American Apparel?

[pmcd9]

Ok, I went to the American Apparel website and it's pretty weird.  I was going to report that it's damn near pornographic and possibly innapropriate.  There is a slide show on the home page and the first images it presented were of a young girl, maybe 15-6 posing on a bed wearing very small tight shorts. Then I was shown other models wearing little clothes.

I was just about to leave when it switched to pictures of the border with Mexico at Tijuana.  Suddenly I was intrigued again.  Next series was employees of American Apparel and they were all Hispanic.  All except for one white woman who looked like a supervisor.  There were also a bunch of self portraits of "Dov."

About this time I noticed the titles which were such as "Kristen in Lauren's Old Room" and "Telephone Love" and I thought this is pretty clever, they've given it the look and feel of a flickr photostream.  It makes it appear homemade mixing in pictures of random stuff like a dude with a Chihuahua dog and a bicycle in Miami amongst the pictures of the models.  If it were actually on flickr it would fit right in and probably be hella popular.

I was just about to go again when the next series of photos began.  Entitled simply Yanyan it was grainy pictures of a young girl topless who I would hope is 18, but looks 13 or 14.  Woah, American Apparel has just cornered the perv market.

Well there you have it.  That's my walkthrough of the American Apparel website.

EDIT:  I was curious to see if American Apparel had a flickr page.  Not sure, but I did find this (for Wombat).

[wombat]

EDIT:  I was curious to see if American Apparel had a flickr page.  Not sure, but I did find this (for Wombat).

OK, associating that photo with any of that other American Apparel stuff... I think my brain is going to explode.

That's not their photo, by the way, they got it off a greeting card.

[jaydub]

Thank God for the Onion:  they've exposed the horrors of the AA sweatshop before.

Still at large, FBI sources say, is the models' alleged captor, a shadowy, unkempt, elaborately facial-haired figure in his late 30s or early 40s known only as "the Creepy Man."

Knowmore.org has an extensive critique.  More than I want to read today, at work, but it nutshells the company pretty nicely.

[Beatrice]

"Before I knew it, I was squatting on the floor in this humid room with a camera pointed at my crotch," said model Gabrielle, whose image can be found on the back page of this newspaper.

The first AA store I ever patronized was in SoHo, and was also the place I discovered my first hard copy of The Onion.  Am I some sort of late-blooming hipster freak?  Nooooooo! 

Their fair production practices are so good, and their ad campaigns are so bad.  I bought a pair of pink socks at a store in Philly after walking several miles with my boyfriend with just shoes and sweaty feet. They were 8 dollars, and the store was the third one we'd passed.  At 2 dollars per blister prevention, this may have not been a cost-effective decision.