Oxxford for Abercrombie & Fitch

[VMan]

This is quite an interesting item.

 

[amerikajinda]

It looks pretty dirty and worn... from the number inside - is it from 1986? 21 years old?

 

[rnoldh]

Good deal for anyone that size.

The price is certainly right, but I would worry about condition given the coats age, and the lack of decent pictures.

Do any of you NY people remember when A & F was a retailer of high end brands like this? How old would you guess the coat is, and when did A & F cease to exist as a high end retailer?

 

[odoreater]

What's next, Alden for Kenneth Cole?

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Originally Posted by odoreater

What's next, Alden for Kenneth Cole?

didn't EG make a few models for Cole Haan back in the day?

 

[AlanC]

I came across a lovely solid grey A&F Oxxford recently. I would have grabbed it but for the predictable moth damage to the trousers. A&F was once a grand and venerable firm. The current incarnation only uses the name.

 

[mack11211]

I think the venerable A&F croaked in the 80s. There was some kind of attempted revival in the early 90s before the current regime came in.

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by rnoldh

How old would you guess the coat is, and when did A & F cease to exist as a high end retailer?

The much storied A&F closed in 1977. Oshman's bought the name and opened a couple of dozen stores that paled in comparison to the original. I don't recall if Oshman's carried on A&F's long standing relationship with Oxxford, though I doubt it. The limited acquired A&F from Oshman's in 1989. So the jacket is definitely twenty and possibly thirty years plus old.

 

[Tarmac]

the name Abercrombie & Fitch is so saville row. like Hilditch & Key, Loake Brothers, Crockett & Jones, Turnbull & Asser.


then again so is Hillerich & Bradsby

 

[zjpj83]

Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

didn't EG make a few models for Cole Haan back in the day?

yes. Also for Nordstrom's.

 

[Artisan Fan]

the name Abercrombie & Fitch is so saville row. like Hilditch & Key, Loake Brothers, Crockett & Jones, Turnbull & Asser.

Like Thomas Pink?

 

[VMan]

I knew that A&F was once a highly regarded outfitter/clothier, but I did not know that they carried other branded labels than their own.

 

[calvin1663]

from the tome of all knowledge (wikipedia)

In 1928, Ezra Fitch retired from the company. Despite the change in ownership, Abercrombie & Fitch continued to expand. The company rarely sold product with a name brand during this period, preferring to label nearly everything with their own logo. A notable example is a line of watches made by Heuer, but that prestigious maker's mark was only visible on the internal movement with "Abercrombie and Fitch" on the dial. Similar situations occurred across the product line. In 1939, it adopted the slogan, "The Greatest Sporting Goods Store in the World." By 1962, the company operated stores in Chicago (formerly Von Lengerke & Antoine, an associated sporting goods retailer since 1928), San Francisco, California, San malls in Short Hills, New Jersey (1963), Bal Harbour, Florida (1966), Troy, Michigan (1969) and Oak Brook, Illinois (1972). Despite the chain's apparent success, the company began to falter financially in the late 1960s and went bankrupt in 1977. Oshman's, a sporting goods retailer, acquired Abercrombie soon thereafter, but the company continued to struggle.
[edit]1990-2000 - Revival of Abercrombie & Fitch
During 1988, The Limited Inc. (now called Limited Brands) acquired Abercrombie & Fitch,[5] determined to reinvigorate the ailing brand. The Limited had been successful in rolling out new concept stores, such as Express (women's clothing), and Victoria's Secret (lingerie and beauty products). Over the next decade, Abercrombie & Fitch was carefully rebuilt as a teen apparel merchandiser by CEO Mike Jeffries.[6]
The company began opening stores in upscale malls across America in the early 1990s, targeting teenagers and college students aged 18-22.[7] The clothing consists of: woven shirts, denim, miniskirts, cargo shorts, wool sweaters, polo shirts, and t-shirts. The clothing produced in the 1990s was fairly consistent with the brand's "preppy" image and tended to be less trend-driven than today's offerings, which bear significantly less resemblance to traditional preppy apparel. The store quickly became successful, and by the mid-1990s, there were dozens of Abercrombie & Fitch stores in the United States.[8] Careful marketing made the brand synonymous with understated, sexy, classic casualwear.[9] In 1996, The Limited took Abercrombie & Fitch public on the New York Stock Exchange and gradually phased out its ownership of the company.

 

[Moss]

Originally Posted by rnoldh

Good deal for anyone that size.

The price is certainly right, but I would worry about condition given the coats age, and the lack of decent pictures.

Do any of you NY people remember when A & F was a retailer of high end brands like this? How old would you guess the coat is, and when did A & F cease to exist as a high end retailer?

Not since the 70s. It was like Brooks Brothers with fly fishing waders and tennis sweaters.

 

[texas_jack]

They're taking offers so if this is your size I would take a gamble.