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miggieAug 22, 2010
I'm so happy that guy was a douche!
britishgolgo13Aug 22, 2010
Why are you happy he was a douche?
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
My initial impression was that he hates to see nice people go bankrupt.
indubitablyAug 23, 2010
was?
generalalcazarAug 23, 2010
Semicolons; they exist for a reason.
kaveti6616Aug 23, 2010
Colons: they exist for a reason.
7jbdwAug 23, 2010
for pooping
zenith251Aug 23, 2010
lern 2 ingglish
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
If he was the king of hipsters, why did his business fail?
Dude was just another greedy douche.
chupwnAug 22, 2010
I've never known anyone to be happy that someone was a douche. Or did you mean you're happy that a company which created well paying jobs in the US is going under?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
zaffirAug 22, 2010
I've never known anyone to respond to someone that doesn't exist, unless they were crazy. Or did you mean this as a reply to someone's post, but somehow MISSED the reply button?
factorof13Aug 22, 2010
The "naughty noughties?" Whoever coined that phrase deserves to be drawn and quartered.
fearlessfreepAug 23, 2010
seems to be a UK thing....
ethanleducAug 23, 2010
That doesn't make it ok.
gigglestickAug 23, 2010
@Ethan
It makes it UK
zenith251Aug 23, 2010
+1 GiggleStick.
@FactorOf13 - Go all the way: Hanged, drawn and quartered.
mabsarkAug 28, 2010
Everyone should boycott Digg on Monday.
antonmossAug 22, 2010
I'm so glad, Dov Charney is a sleaze.
crytekemployee3Aug 22, 2010
wait, he's going bankrupt from women who are suing him for sexual harrassment because they CHOSE to participate in wet t-shirt contests? ONLY IN AMERICA. Man, I can't wait until my Mexican brothers rise up from the dust and and this country back over. Mexico doesn't have lawsuits, only muscles and biceps. f**kin lawyers and snake oil salesmen in this country.
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gorftronAug 22, 2010
STFU and get those taco platters to table 7.
xynthetikAug 23, 2010
one smart comment deserves another
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
WTF?
thebeastlyAug 23, 2010
Que?
outlawxxxAug 23, 2010
Talk all you want we still WOOPED your asses in the mexican american war, because were smarter ^^ HA
zenith251Aug 23, 2010
Sarcasm, derp derp.
evange106Aug 22, 2010
But how will he pay to settle sexual harassment lawsuits now?
startle3ivAug 23, 2010
Under federal law he can't be sued personally for sexual harassment. Not sure if California has a statute similar to Illinois that would allow him to be sued directly.
mjoeAug 22, 2010
American Apparel was the cover-up operation for Dov Charney's harem
eshinnAug 23, 2010
American Apparel, apparently, is in peril. yuck-yuck-yuck
mankind121Aug 22, 2010
Plenty more douchetacular stores for the assh**e demographic to shop at
fearlessfreepAug 23, 2010
So where's your favorite?
cyrixAug 23, 2010
So it's not who you are as a person that makes you a douche but what you wear.....
rattusrattusAug 24, 2010
But are their products made in America?
Closed AccountAug 22, 2010
i like their 50/50 shirts.
snatchdraculaAug 24, 2010
Me to :/
shutitdownAug 23, 2010
Their medium shirts fit me perfect. And their fleece zip up hoodie is just the right fit.
mrfistyAug 23, 2010
AA t-shirts are great to screenprint on. Plus I'm in your boat: Medium AA tee is like a second skin.
fattehboiAug 23, 2010
f**king hipsters...they do have nice v-necks though.
diggsmckenzieAug 23, 2010
No self-respecting man wears v-necks. Especially American Apparel v-necks.
frostekAug 23, 2010
V-necks are called scoop necks and they're for girls, so they can show off their cleavage!
Men look like idiots wearing them.
snatchdraculaAug 24, 2010
uh. v-necks and scoop necks aren't the same thing. a scoop neck is u shaped.
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
Good. f**k hipsters
piratearggghhhAug 23, 2010
I can't stand the clothes but it is pretty much one of the few clothing lines that is actually made in the US in Los Angeles factories so to me, this is pretty bad news.
clickxAug 23, 2010
Yeah, plus it's a good price. Websites like ript apparel and stupid hurts us have AA shirts for $10 and $13 respectively.
hurricanedcAug 23, 2010
Agreed. It's hipster scum but at least it's American-made and supposedly fair labor hipster scum. That's more than can be said for pretty much any clothing company.
matthewdukeAug 23, 2010
You can't pay people with an 8th grade education $20 an hour with full benefits and stay in business. It just doesn't work.
teamelectricAug 23, 2010
unless your a badass athlete
jtotheoeAug 23, 2010
my a badass athlete?
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
"The company also faces production problems after a raid on its factory last year by police revealed that 1,500 illegal immigrants were working there. They all had to be fired."
lol...
infinitysnatchAug 23, 2010
DIE, hipster garbage.
fuzybunyAug 23, 2010
I didn't know who Don Charney was so a googled and he looks like a sex offender.
hurricanedcAug 23, 2010
cos he is one
fuzybunyAug 23, 2010
well I guess you can judge a book by its cover
rattusrattusAug 24, 2010
He takes the pics for their adds. All of them make me feel creepy for looking at them.
lamblikeawolfAug 25, 2010
From the article, it sounds like he is corporately a sex offender.
gotbannedagainAug 23, 2010
Clothing in the United States is marked up ridiculously. I worked in retail when I was in high school, and we'd get shipments of s**t fabric in and turn around and sell it for 20 times what it was actually worth, all because they opted to put a brand on it.
I don't have a problem with people that want to be stylish, and I don't have any issues when rare fabric is sold for what it's worth - but 90% of the retail outlets in American Mall's sell ridiculously overpriced s**t, and suckers purchase it in order to feel like they're in the now.
Does anyone ever wonder why it is that something that was $50 ends up in the sales rack for $10 and the company can stay in business? Yeah, that's why. It was worth less than $10 before it even hit the rack.
ch3n3yth3d1ckAug 23, 2010
right, because marketing, advertising, paying your employees, leasing shop space, maintaining storefronts, leasing shop space and distributing catalogues costs no money
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slipperyottterAug 23, 2010
i shouldn't even say this, but as you can see from the last few sentences he wrote, the item being marked up so high is worth less than ten dollars. that's why you can go to outlet malls like ross or whatever and buy the same s**t around ten dollars.
sure, there are expenses, like the one's you listed, but the outlet store has those as well.
here's what i recomend you do:
go down to hip store, like zumiez, urban outfitters, or w/e, and check the price tag on a tank top without any print on it. they're like 28-32 dollars...
it's true. i know cuz i've bought a few in my younger years (last year). but now im 20, and i see now how dumb i was.
nidstylesAug 23, 2010
Why pay for advertising when every piece of garbage clothing act's as advertising for you?
doublebaconsodaAug 23, 2010
Because malls charge rent and it isn't cheap to air condition a mall. But it is still a lot of bulls**t.
sniperhareAug 23, 2010
Good riddance to bad clothes.
slipperyottterAug 23, 2010
they're actually made from quality materials and with fair labor practices.
toss your hipster prejudice aside, look at this objectively, and you'll see that this is a bad day for businesses with policies
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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slipperyottterAug 23, 2010
*ethical policies
i accidentally a word
and sure, i'll google it... ill see what comes up
:D
jeremiahjwAug 23, 2010
Good riddance
leezusAug 23, 2010
I still don't know what a hipster is. I just know I HATE em!
yeu56Aug 23, 2010
Was anyone else's first thought about where Woot shirts are gonna come from now?
raoulduke310Aug 23, 2010
Ok first Crocs, now this..next Pabst Blue Ribbon...slowly making progress...
imnotmattritterAug 23, 2010
Nah, Crocs are fine.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HE4SFG0.htm
raoulduke310Aug 23, 2010
you think so, huh?
pxtlAug 23, 2010
I don't care how much of a douche he is - thigh-high gym-socks are the sexiest thing I've ever seen.
akramAug 23, 2010
Since Apple has $40 billion in the bank and their retail employees wear American Apparel-made shirts, it wouldn't be outrageous for them to purchase AA to fuel their supplies. With an interest rate of only 0.76% on that cash mountain, this could be paid for in no time. Okay, maybe it is a bit outrageous.
plumheadAug 23, 2010
Actually, just 2 weeks ago Apple changed their store uniforms from American Apparel to some cheaper company that outsources to Vietnam... connection?
doublebaconsodaAug 23, 2010
It would be extremely suspicious if Apple turned around and bought the place because Apple knows what it is doing. They are waiting for s**t to fail so they can scoop it up and make money.
trolleyAug 23, 2010
A lot of their stuff is s**t, but their tshirts really are great. They feel like high quality and they fit great.
simonxborerAug 23, 2010
Worked for the company for a long time, in charge of inventory, got flown around to consult when they were setting up stores in Canada and the U.S. Wanted to say that the "sweatshop free" claims are mostly bogus - a fair amount of the stitching happens in the L.A. factory, but everything else happens in China under questionable circumstances. The stitching that DID happen in the states sucked - we had to return 10-20% of the clothes because they were already coming apart. Retail and inventory employees are treated like s**t. Minimum wage plus the creepiest possible corporate culture. The ability to "react to the market" also allows the stores to "react to coke-fueled terrible ideas" from all the many levels of unqualified quasi-models that Dov installed in the hierarchy without any regard to the business making any sense whatsoever.
That being said, I'm wearing one of their polos right now, 'cause they just fit.
snatchdraculaAug 24, 2010
This is sad and hilarious at the same time. Have to say I'm pretty bummed since their t-shirts, hoodies, and leggings are staples in my wardrobe.
wrc_michaelAug 23, 2010
Nice tees...terribad clothes. Tried to return an item with a receipt day after I bought it and they refused to give me any kind of refund even though CA law gives right to cash refunds for anything under $10.
With bad 70s clothes and crap service is it any surprise? Buh bye...good riddance!
kinggorillaAug 23, 2010
Over priced but still a good product that's made in America. Don't care if the owner was a douche and the advertising was borderline pornography, it was a good company.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
blankmediaAug 23, 2010
Get them out of my America
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
Yeah! And take your 'Made in America' jobs with you!
Are you f**king retarded? One of the VERY few companies that actually PRODUCED something in the United States and you're celebrating their demise?
No wonder this country is in the f**king s**tter.
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riverstyxAug 23, 2010
So much for hipsters having money. That's what happens when your demographics are kids who mooch off their parents.
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
Can you hear that? That's the sound of Brooklyn feigning not to care, but balling its eyes out on the inside when no one is looking.
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
'bawling,' maybe?
leezusAug 23, 2010
No, I think him means " ballin' ".
You know, like what you do when you're phresh.
ethanleducAug 23, 2010
Does this mean I won't have to see their vaguely depressing ads in the subway anymore?
orbishAug 23, 2010
It's a wanna-be clothing line anyway.
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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random12345Aug 23, 2010
This is actually bad news. Their basic t-shirts are actually really light and comfortable, especially in hot/humid weather.
iconmasterAug 23, 2010
I live in Texas and I find your statement curious. I find hot weather is the worst time to wear American Apparel tees, though they're comfortable otherwise.
Definitely not the shirts I go for when my body needs to "breathe."
teamelectricAug 23, 2010
Business rise and fall everyday in America. If you cant make a profit selling overpriced clothing than you need to be in another business.
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
Some of you people are f**king idiots.
This is literally one of the few companies that makes clothing (shirts, pants, socks, underwear, etc) IN the United States.
And for a while at least, they were making a lot. And selling a lot. AND exporting a lot.
And providing jobs in the process.
So the overweight, old, backwoods idiots and basement dwellers try to act like it's a death rattle for hipsters and that's all that matters to you? Like you introverted **** even leave your parents' basements enough to care.
They produced good quality clothing that was made in the United States and provided an option to those of us who CARE where garments are made and under what conditions.
I'll say it until I'm blue in the face: To the average Digger, a hipster is anyone who is socially active who leaves his house and isn't dressed in Docker's khakis and loafers. You people don't get culture at all.
It's fine to hate hipsters but quit using it as a buzzword or catchphrase to try to encompass every single person who doesn't fit into your sedentary, non-social lifestyle.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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teamelectricAug 23, 2010
Did you not read the article? They were caught with 1,500 illegal immigrants working in L.A. and they are $120 million in debt.
If your a business and claim to not outsource and then you hire 1,500 illegals thats deceptive marketing. If you cant make a profit and cover your business expenses than you don't deserve to be in business. Learn about how to run a business before you start your brainwashed "buy american" rant.
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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clarientAug 23, 2010
It's sad that this company had to crash and burn like this. They used to make quality clothes that fit well, produced entirely in the U.S. Now they just make stupid lace leotards and tutus and decided that smart business practices are overrated.
kanuckpAug 23, 2010
Them saying their stuff's fabricated in the US is the equivalent to me saying my IKEA furniture is Canadian cause I constructed it in my house.
bloodwineAug 23, 2010
Made in America ... by illegal immigrants
blacksheep01Aug 23, 2010
I always had mixed feelings about that place. I am really glad it's made in the USA, but the owner is a huge perv and the kids who work in the stores around here are the most annoying hipsters I have ever seen in my entire life. I mean, Billy Ray Cyrus mullets and rat tails, Spring Break 87 T-Shirts, suspenders to spandex jeans and then they look at you like "hey normie, how sad are you wearing a T-Shirt and shorts, pffft" and they treat you poorly on top of that, just makes you never want to go in there again.
Maybe someone else can take up the mantle of made in the USA chain stores, again, I loved that part the most, but knowing about the owner and actually going in those stores made it a lot harder to love.
shawnfromnhAug 23, 2010
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doublebaconsodaAug 23, 2010
Conspiracy theory #329721387-1 They planted this article here to get more people to buy their clothes. Far fetched but I am sure some company has done that before but I doubt it. Just a thought, nothing more.
thermiteterraceAug 23, 2010
Hipsterism is essentially a 'cultural arms-race' where a bunch of insufferably annoying people relentlessly and constantly compete to one-up each other by means of their musical tastes or wardrobes. While they do have tons of their parents' money to spend, basing one's entire business plan on selling to people whose life motto is essentially "dude, I liked that before it was trendy...but not anymore" is kinda dumb.
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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suzannethetigerAug 23, 2010
I went into American Apparel a few times and all they sell is thong leotards made out of the cheapest fabric possible and goofy-patterned thigh high socks. Who on earth would buy a thong leotard in this day and age? And the socks? Wtf, maybe at Halloween.
imnotmattritterAug 23, 2010
I do like their v-necks and track jackets. About it.
Closed AccountAug 23, 2010
I'll miss the adverts.
professormurdaAug 23, 2010
Hipsters aside, their shirts that shrink 2 sizes and get holes in them after 3 washes give "Made in America" a bad name. Good riddance.
poxonyouAug 23, 2010
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