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post #76 of 85
5/25/10 at 12:44am
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Originally Posted by mlyngard View Post

Please treat denim as a subcat that you only have a passing knowledge of and don't mock us denimhead freaks.

He's right though; selvage doesn't indicate any level of quality of denim.
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post #77 of 85
5/25/10 at 3:20am
^ ask ernest hemmingway about A&F's quality
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post #78 of 85
5/25/10 at 5:09am
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Originally Posted by wahwho11 View Post
^ ask ernest hemmingway about A&F's quality

wat. I don't own anything from a&f
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post #79 of 85
5/25/10 at 5:11am
I buy selvedge for the same reason i buy organic. Because i can. Oh, and fuck the haters or something along those lines.
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post #80 of 85
5/25/10 at 5:24am
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Originally Posted by Earnest Hemingway View Post
wat. I don't own anything from a&f

I think he's talking about this dude:

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post #81 of 85
5/25/10 at 5:39am
o i c
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post #82 of 85
5/25/10 at 5:40am
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post #83 of 85
5/25/10 at 10:09am
how long until we get an official a&f thread that rivals the j crew thread
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post #84 of 85
5/25/10 at 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by Pablo-T View Post
Gap were producing selvage quite possibly years before your favourite brand. Adriano Goldschmied, who designed for them, was one of the founders of Diesel, and a backer of Evis.

Selvage, in its revived form, has been around for 20 years now. It's hardly the 'latest thing' that a bunch of big brands are attempting to exploit.
I don't disagree that it's been around. But whether the mall brands are pushing it as a marketing tool - it comes in and out as something to exploit.
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post #85 of 85
5/25/10 at 2:01pm
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Originally Posted by Uncontrol View Post
how long until we get an official a&f thread that rivals the j crew thread

Good idea, I ll start it
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