By: stavrosthewonderchicken
The fact that I've never been inside a Gap shop, or worn a piece of their sweatshop-sewn gear is an symptom of the fact that : a) I'm cooler than tits on a hovercraft. b) I'm a big butthead with the...
View ArticleBy: dong_resin
Yeesh..... yer right..... there's a freudian slip. I just nerded into sheer hypernerd. God, I need a woman.
View ArticleBy: JDC8
Will Farrell lost my respect by acquiescing to Lorne Greene's command to cease making fun of Dubya. War or no, the man is still a jackass. [Battlestar Galactica]...by your command... And what...
View ArticleBy: mcsweetie
mostly all I wear is hand-me-downs. the rest are random thrift shop scavenges or hand-made. name brand clothing always struck me as a kind of a silly prospect. for the price one might pay for a shirt...
View ArticleBy: Down10
Actual link to Gap TV ads. Gee, I've been growing up with the Gap all my life, near the one on the corner of Haight/Ashbury, so I've never really had that big a problem with the place. I've bought...
View ArticleBy: blackholebrain
THOUGHT: right or wrong, GAP ads are exactly the kind of mindless materialism celebrated here in the USA that makes Osama & friends only want to kill more Americans.
View ArticleBy: lotsofno
gap commercials damn-near ruined my love for laura prepon (the red-head from that 70s show.). thank God i've seen it only once. it wasn't so much that it was a Gap commercial, it was the silly goose...
View ArticleBy: dong_resin
I like my tee-shirts (black, size M) to come out of a little plastic baggie, so I know they're fresh. Wal-Mart, Fruit of the Loom, 6.99. I can't begin to imagine what sort of ego deficiency drives one...
View ArticleBy: edlundart
I'll be half-watching TV when all of a sudden I see a Gap commercial with Will Ferrell in it and think it's an SNL commercial. But the punch line never comes. Kind of like SNL.
View ArticleBy: melissa
Old Navy just started opening up stores in the Toronto area, and while their prices are pretty good, I like that they actually have colourful clothes! They are multiplying like mad so I guess other...
View ArticleBy: holgate
A black cotton T-shirt at old navy costs $10, the same shirt costs $13 at the Gap, and the 3rd identical shirt at Banana Republic costs $18...Old Navy, Gap, and Banana do (often) sell similarly-styled...
View ArticleBy: Laugh_track
Ugh, the Gap ad that I hate the most is that one with Will Ferrell. I'll be half-watching TV when all of a sudden I see a Gap commercial with Will Ferrell in it and think it's an SNL commercial. But...
View ArticleBy: estopped
. . . can someone please explain to me how a politically aware, no-shit turntablist like DJ Spooky can on the one hand criticise consumer culture and then lend his name to The Gap, as per my previous...
View ArticleBy: Hackworth
On Gap ads: Eh. All ads are pretty much annoying. Frankly I'm amazed it's generated a thread with this many posts. On their clothes: I used to poo-poo the Gap Inc brands while secretly shopping there,...
View ArticleBy: pudders
The only difference between those two stores is my paycheck gets more than one article of clothing at the gap. The difference for me is that A&F's clothes actually fit me. (plus if I wear a&e I...
View ArticleBy: allaboutgeorge
soundslikequiet: You say "blatantly homoerotic images" as if it's a bad thing. ;/) diss A&F for lots of things (sweatshop labor; conformist clothing), but please consider that some folks might not...
View ArticleBy: sansenrisco
Their ads kind of strike me as funny, when they imply that shopping at the Gap makes you different and cool, when in the ad you have about 87 people all wearing the exact same orange vest and blue...
View ArticleBy: asok
xochie and moz - support the economy by buying music from new york! i am listening to 'cex' live in new york right now, it is pretty noisy so-called 'intelligent dance'. next i shall listen to 'an...
View ArticleBy: soundslikequiet
that will ferrel gap ad cracks me up, that man has the funny. i honestly have to say that the gap ads don't bother me much, i'm always looking forward to what they're going to do in terms of...
View ArticleBy: justgary
which is why now most of my wardrobe needs are met at Abercrombie & Fitch. The only difference between those two stores is my paycheck gets more than one article of clothing at the gap. (plus if I...
View ArticleBy: fishfucker
actually, I have to disagree about the fitting -- i like GAP because it is one of the few places that understands what it means to wear size small. i've grown to hate shopping for shirts as most...
View ArticleBy: n9
the GAP billboard at 34th and 5th in NYC seems to have the most disturbing image on it: Tricky. WTF is Tricky (of all people) doing in a GAP ad? What was on his mind the day they took his picture. grrr.
View ArticleBy: mjane
I love the GapKids ads where the boys and girls are whirling around showing off their kung-fu moves. The sheer athleticism and energy of the ad is exciting and, dare I saw, empowering. It doesn't make...
View ArticleBy: MrMoonPie
I've been in a Gap once. Same for Old Navy. Never been to a Banana Republic. Protesting corporate homogeneity? Expressing my sense of style? No. Nothing there fits me. I searched the stores for...
View ArticleBy: monkey-mind
The black, guitar-wielding Angus Young fan in the Gap ads is Cherokee, an R&B artist. See her page at CDNOW.com. Someone also asked for the names of the people responsible for the Gap ad campaign....
View ArticleBy: asok
offtopic gap xmas carols. /offtopic adverts show clothes off well... boring clothes, eh.
View ArticleBy: glenwood
more and more like Old Navy. Too bad. Hey I resemble that comment. I am just fine with plain yet colorful cotton v-necks of every denomination. Comfy, generic looking. CHEAP. I get MOST of my clothes...
View ArticleBy: blue
...what's a good commercial? Maybe it's easier to define a good commercial by what it doesn't do: it doesn't try to sell an unattainable lifestyle, it doesn't make people look stupid or talk down to...
View ArticleBy: bragadocchio
Gap bashing aside, what's a good commercial? Apple's totalitarianistic future first seen years ago at the superbowl? Budweiser's Whassup?
View ArticleBy: zeb vance
Mind the Gap.It's not their ads per se, it's that there is no escape from them. I've given up on the Fox block of Futurama, King of the Hill and The Simpsons strictly because I can't deal with five or...
View ArticleBy: blue
Here's one positive way of looking at it: advertising is some of the only mainstream media exposure electronic music is getting these days. Thanks arielmeadow for your link, but I'm not sure that it...
View ArticleBy: moz
i will admit, however, that most of my wardrobe can be gotten in either old navy or structure. whether i'm conformist or not, i don't know; i like to think i'm not a clothes snob.
View ArticleBy: MattD
Abulafia: Old Navy, Gap, and Banana do (often) sell similarly-styled clothes, but it rarely the same merchandise. Particularly in some core products (khakis, for example) the quality gulf between Old...
View ArticleBy: arielmeadow
[Warning: self link] Article from WiredPlanet.com regarding use of electronic music in advertising: Beats For Sale.
View ArticleBy: jeb
"Everybody in sweatshops" how clever. and it looked like a GAP shirt! Oh bitter irony. I love the gap ads. They totally rule. I especially like the new ones where they have lots of small, same-size...
View ArticleBy: Modem Ovary
the Gap billboards in NYC drive me up the wall. They make me not want to run to the Gap but run to the nearest LA Diet center.
View ArticleBy: abulafia
and whoshotwho, not only are the three branches owned by the same company, but they're targeted market to sell *the same items* on a sliding scale. A black cotton T-shirt at old navy costs $10, the...
View ArticleBy: ParisParamus
I shop there from time to time, and I agree with ParisParamus, their clothing line is becoming shittier with every new line they introduce. The most annoying part of the trend is that stuff is getting...
View ArticleBy: arielmeadow
A shirt I saw this weekend? close the GAP Everybody in sweatshops. Naturally, it looked just like a GAP shirt (logo and everything), 'till you took a second look.
View ArticleBy: moz
offtopic. i think all styles of music are interesting, xochi. drum'n'bass, trance, and house. the question is how willing are you to dig around and find the really good stuff in the midst of all the...
View ArticleBy: whoshotwho
i just hope anyone who has read this far realizes that Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic are all branches of the same tree.
View ArticleBy: toddshot
Actually, Starchile, the link that emptyage posted has the info you're looking for. Her name is Cherokee. That should be enough for a Google search.
View ArticleBy: toddshot
Actually, Starchile, the link that emptyage posted has the info you're looking for. Her name is Cherokee. That should be enough for a Google search.
View ArticleBy: Starchile
Nobody has answered the right question yet. Who is the Angus Young girl?!? I've tried to look it up for weeks, but can't find anything. Anyone?
View ArticleBy: toddshot
I can't believe that no one has mentioned Will Ferrell doing Neil Diamond. I was actually just about to. That may be the best commercial on TV right now. "I wrote this song on the back of a Dixie cup."
View ArticleBy: chrismc
Gap needs to "pay off" what their advertising promises other than tshirts, jeans and the occassional leather pants. That's just it, they can't. It's like buying an attitude or a life style so you can...
View ArticleBy: emptyage
One good thing about the Gap commercials, they always let me know who I need to shun.
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