Dating Confessions by You "I'm wearing sexy underwear while talking to you online so that I feel confident enough to tell you that I'm into you."
Scanner by Emily Farris Today on Nerve's culture blog: We bring you more Dita Von Teese from the German Playboy.
Screengrab by Various Today in Nerve's film blog: Holiday special - 35 people, places and movies we're thankful for.
The Remote Island by Bryan Christian Michael Phelps indulges Anderson Cooper in some watersports and Dexter makes a 'bitch move.' Plus: the secret of Tina Fey's scar, revealed!
Year in which David T. Abercrombie Co. was founded in New York City by trapper, prospector, topographer and railroad surveyor David Abercrombie: 1892
Year in which lawyer and devoted customer Ezra Fitch persuaded Abercrombie to take him on as a partner: 1900
Year in which the first Abercrombie & Fitch catalog was sent out: 1909
Number of catalogs distributed: 50,000
Number of pages in the first issue (hereafter: A&F 1909): 456
Circulation of the summer, 2002 issue of A&F Quarterly (hereafter: A&F 2002): 200,000
Number of pages in A&F 2002: 280
Cost to consumer for A&F 1909: $0
Cost for A&F 2002: $6
Number of nude or partially nude models pictured in 456 pages of A&F 1909: 0
Approximate number of nude or partially nude models pictured in the first 119 pages of A&F 2002 (including cover): 49
Approximate number of exposed breasts pictured in A&F 2002: 54
Cost to consumer, per exposed breast, for A&F 2002: $0.11
Age of college students at which A&F 2002 is targeted, according to A&F spokesman Hampton Carney: 18-22
Number of textbooks featured in A&F 2002: 1 (Accounting Concepts and Applications)
Number of exposed breasts on the model who is ostensibly studying said textbook: 2
Number of columns in A&F 1909 offering advice on what to do when lost in the woods: 1
Number of columns in A&F 2002 offering advice on how to get "this chick I banged last summer" to return phone calls: 1
Approximate number of copies sold of LFO's 1999 hit single, "Summer Girls," featuring the
refrain "I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch": 1,000,000
Approximate number of girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch in A&F 2002: 65
Approximate number of girls who do not wear anything at all: 40
Number of pages in A&F 2002 which feature, inexplicably, a pirate theme: 20
Number of those pages which do not appear to feature any Abercrombie & Fitch products at all, unless Abercrombie & Fitch is selling tri-corner pirate hats this year, which God knows they just might be: 12
Year in which the American Decency Association ("Encouraging Christians to Guard Their Hearts") first called for a boycott of Abercrombie & Fitch because of "campaigns that celebrate the pulchritude and pleasures of youth": 2001
Words in the ADA's press release calling for said boycott: 1,015
Number of appearances in said press release of variations on the phrases "nude,""bare breasts,""rear nudity,""seductive pose,""groin," and "sexual intercourse": 90
Number of references to lesbianism in the ADA's press release: 2
Number of references to group sex: 1
Number of references to bondage: 1
Number of references to bestiality: 1
Number of donkeys featured in A&F 2002: 7
Number of pigs: 1
Number of gorillas: 3
Number of sea monsters: 3
Approximate number of exposed asses, either male or female, in the first 119 pages of A&F 2002: 21
Approximate number if you include the donkeys: 28
Year in which Abercrombie & Fitch began publishing A&F Quarterly as a publication separate from its traditional catalog: 1997
Approximate net sales for Abercrombie & Fitch in 1997: $513 million
Approximate net sales for Abercrombie & Fitch in 2001: $1.365 billion
Percent increase: 166
Number of pages in A&F 2002 which feature actual Abercrombie & Fitch products, with descriptions, sizes and prices: 104
Number of pages in A&F 2002 which do not:176
Number of pages in which the only identifiable merchandise is a large-frond palm tree, as modeled by an otherwise naked blonde woman: 1
Number of palm trees offered for sale in A&F 2002: 0
, featuring curious yet marvelous infusions of cucumber and rose petal.
