Latest update May 30th, 2019 12:49 PM
OH NO THEY DIDN'T: "NIGGER" BROWN PANTS
DO YOU WANT TO BUY SOME ‘NIGGER’ BROWN PANTS FROM ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH?!?!?
On Thursday, the retailer and plenty of Internet users endured a brief freakout when a screenshot of “Abercrombie & Fitch Nigger Brown Pants” appeared on the web, ostensibly being sold on Abercrombie.com.
It seemed to ridiculous to be true, and it was. Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that the site selling the racist pants was abercrombie-and-fitchoutlet.com, one of several impostor sites that sells preppy, Abercrombie-like clothes. The fake website, reports Styleite, was registered to a Hong Kong email address, and as Gawker notes, the use of the N-word was likely due to a poor Chinese-English translation program (something that’s happened in the past).
Regardless, the real Abercrombie & Fitch has quickly stood up and denied the product originated from them. The company tells TMZ, “We do not condone racist language. This is a counterfeit website and we have initiated legal proceedings to shut it down.”
And it seems they achieved their goal rather quickly: attempt to find abercrombie-and-fitchoutlet.com now and you’ll come up empty. Yet the racist pants frenzy stirred enough curiosity to bring attention to the strange problem of fake Abercrombie websites, which can be found all across the web (something we found out when we stumbled across this unlikely “Jersey Shore”-themed tee from Abercrombie, only to discover it was from the fake abercrombie-fitch-mens.com).
