Althouse: "So what, exactly, am I meant to want to buy after seeing this?"

March 17, 2013

"So what, exactly, am I meant to want to buy after seeing this?"

"A Golden Retriever trained to smoke Gauloises?"

19 comments:

The rule of Lemnity said...: I remember that guy on Charlie Rose... I think it was him.; 3/17/13, 10:31 AM
The rule of Lemnity said...: Yeap it was him; 3/17/13, 10:35 AM
Unknown said...: Lem, thanks for the link. Yes, I can see how deep and thoughtful he is. I wonder what a body language expert could do with all of his twitching?; 3/17/13, 10:44 AM
edutcher said...: I dunno, but I doubt I'm in the market.; 3/17/13, 10:52 AM
tiger said...: Interesting that the bisexual aspect of this is only male/female/male and not female/male/female.

I had always read that the A&F catalog was nothing but soft core porn. Turns out it's nothing but homo-erotic soft core porn - with a nude female added to give it a sheen of 'respectability'.; 3/17/13, 10:54 AM
Unknown said...: "Give it a sheen of respectability."
That made me laugh.; 3/17/13, 11:10 AM
Chip Ahoy said...: The thing is, it goes on and on and on, but my favorite part was near the end where you're going, "Am I nearing the end?" and it shows a girl showing her tits to two guys then they get in the flower car and by their shoes (very poor shoe choice) you can see it's two guys on their back in the car and the girl climbed on top of both of them like one plank on top of two planks then as you scroll the next two photographs are upward views of steel girders, like two metal erections and I was thinking, "Now that's clever photograph placement."; 3/17/13, 11:19 AM
kentuckyliz said...: I think the blonde is the actress Malin Akerman, who was the Rolling Stone reporter in Rock of Ages.; 3/17/13, 11:23 AM
Unknown said...: Oh, I get it. "Get into something hot this season."
That's why they aren't sitting down on the seats. Oh, funny, funny. Back to school in a "hot" car wearing nothing but your summer tan and a big cheesy grin. Why buy clothes at all?; 3/17/13, 11:41 AM
Big Mike said...: If the point of the advertising is to sell clothes, why do you use nude models?; 3/17/13, 11:43 AM
Clyde said...: "Got a tattoo in Berlin
"And a case of the crabs,
"A rose and a dagger
"On the palm of my hand.
"And I'll search the world over
"For my angel in black,
"Yeah, I'll search the world over
"For a Eurotrash Girl..."; 3/17/13, 11:51 AM
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Palladian said...: You can't buy Gauloises in the US anymore because the punishment taxes on cigarettes were increased so much that it was no longer profitable to export them here.; 3/17/13, 12:15 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Slavo, buddy!

Stick to Hegel, Schelling, Marx & Heidegger, dude, and leave the soft-core gay porn to the experts!; 3/17/13, 12:40 PM
McTriumph said...: A&F, the once great outfitter of expeditions for the likes of TR and Hemingway has morphed in to a substandard clothing retailer with homo-erotic advertising and copy written by a communist from Tito's workers' paradise.; 3/17/13, 12:44 PM
Sam L. said...: Is there a link to a photo or video? All I get is Metafilter w/ comments. I'm all Sgt. Schultz here.; 3/17/13, 1:05 PM
Known Unknown said...: This comes to you from the freaky metropolis of New Albany, Ohio.; 3/17/13, 3:41 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: It's attempting to convey the idea that the kids should not waste their money on underwear, methinks. Gotta get the last dollar, and if you have to pay $70 for a stupid pair of khaki shorts, you can't afford the underpants.

That was, um, not at all like the teens that I remember from my time in the sun. Any girl would have been seriously freaked out if her boyfriend was hanging out with another dude like that.; 3/17/13, 4:12 PM
CWJ said...: Sorry guys that I'm so late to the party. BUT, having hosted two Northern Italian teenagers, this ad makes complete sense to me. Maybe not to us middle Americans, but my children would see nothing but a clothes ad.

The surprise is that both of them are as conservative and family centered as any of us.; 3/17/13, 4:23 PM