Abercrombie & Fitch Wasn’t Fashion, It Was Armor

It wasn’t always about “fitting in.” For some of us, it was about disappearing.

We can skip over my grandmother screaming at salespeople to turn the music down, neither of us need to revisit that trauma today. Where we can focus instead is on a story about teenage fashion I don’t hear often enough. Fitting in seems to be the accepted motivation, succumbing to “peer pressure” and…