Would you buy clothes from GAP?

[Sir Belchalot]

I bought a gap tshirt from a charity shop the other week. Should I be attacked for wearing it?

No because you're not creating a demand for new Gap products but if you shop or steal from them direct you are.

 

[TeeJay]

what about the redwoods? Have you people no social concience?

The Gap sucks

I don't know about the Redwoods issue, but that link is slagging off the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), despite the fact that the FSC is supported by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Soil Association in the UK, along with many other environmental organisations around the world. From my own research into the FSC (as part of my MSc) I found them to be one of the best sustainable forestry organisations around.

see here: FSC membership list
(nb. pdf document!)

 

[moose]

I seem to remember their clothes are dull and nastily made. I would have posted something to illustrate my point, but they're so shoddy, their website only works with certain browsers

 

[Lost Zoot]

http://www.nosweatapparel.com/

Meh

 

[Cloo]

I never have - in part cos of the manufacturing ethical thing, although God knows I'm sure I shop at loads of places that are just as bad. And partly because I just associate it with being the kind of shop used by people who don't like clothes. You know, the kind of person who has 5 pairs of black trousers from Gap, wears one pair out and then buys another pair from Gap more or less the same.

But... I've seen quite a lot of nice, less boring stuff in there in recent years, so I may falter.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

what about the redwoods? Have you people no social concience?

The Gap sucks

Where are the pictures of evil trappers skinning baby raccoons?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

In my wardrobe:

 

[pseudonarcissus]

In my wardrobe:

Raccoon skin shorts. Johnny?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Raccoon skin shorts. Johnny?

Shaved squirrelskin.

 

[Hellsbells]

The velvet jacket I bought was size 0

What's that all about then? Is my body so small it doesn't even exist?!

 

[rennie]

The velvet jacket I bought was size 0

What's that all about then? Is my body so small it doesn't even exist?!

they're US sizes... size zero is size 4 british.

 

[IntoStella]

I never wear clothes that have got things written on them.

 

[Orang Utan]

Me neither

 

[WasGeri]

they're US sizes... size zero is size 4 british.

How can a full grown woman be a size 4, FFS?

 

[Hellsbells]

How can a full grown woman be a size 4, FFS?

er, yeah tell me about it!! I know I'm small, but I'm not that bloody small!

Do they have minus sizes in the US then? How can anyone be size -1, that's just riddiculous

 

[dormouse]

er, yeah tell me about it!! I know I'm small, but I'm not that bloody small!

Do they have minus sizes in the US then? How can anyone be size -1, that's just riddiculous

You're not alone... I'm a Gap size 0 too (for trousers, anyway). I can't believe it really equates to UK size 4, otherwise I'd never be able to buy anything anywhere else!

 

[rennie]

How can a full grown woman be a size 4, FFS?

i'm not sure but they're out there.. apparently posh spice is size 4.

and NO they don't do minus sizes in the US... If u're smaller than zero, i guess u go to the Kids section. or the Petite section.

 

[Orang Utan]

My sis fits into sizes 4 and 5 - she's 5'1" and no waif

 

[Hellsbells]

i'm not sure but they're out there.. apparently posh spice is size 4.

No way am I as skinny as Posh Spice. Gap sizing is just totally screwed up.
I'm size 8 to 10 in most other shops!

 

[rennie]

No way am I as skinny as Posh Spice. Gap sizing is just totally screwed up.
I'm size 8 to 10 in most other shops!

i agree... a size 8 in Gap on me is HUGE but seems ok in other places,

 

[cathal marcs]

There boxer shorts are a really nice fit

But wouldnt wear anything with the logo my dad bought me a hoody with GAP on it for Christmas only where it while doing the washing up sadly.

 

[zcat]

definitly not the ones with GAP on the front.

would you wear a second hand/free GAP top which had GAP embalzened on it?

no neither

I would but id write fuck in front of the gap

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It's a shame, I remember them doing some perfectly decent unbranded clothing when they started. "GAP" on the label and that was it.

 

[Wolfie]

bland, boring and not nearly expensive enough - let alone the ethical considerations ..

 

[Hollis]

It's a shame, I remember them doing some perfectly decent unbranded clothing when they started. "GAP" on the label and that was it.

Alot of the stuff in there doesn't have GAP plastered about on it.. I don't buy anything with a brand name on it.. just don't like it.