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Who likes these American Apparel ads? I do.

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7/17/2010 Kent "Pat Bateman" P. says:

They're totally 30 seconds away from softcore porn. It's pretty sweet. I like the direction the ad-sales @ yelp Toronto are going. Keep up the good work.

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    7/17/2010 Aaron B. says:

    So, Pat, this is your kind of thing, eh? http://i.americanappar...

    Thanks to the original poster for bringing this fashion atrocity to light.

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    7/17/2010 Aaron B. says:

    touche, Jon...touche.

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    7/17/2010 Kent "Pat Bateman" P. says:

    Wow. Yeah Dudes shouldn't wear this stuff.

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    7/17/2010 Aaron B. says:

    There might be practical reasons to convert what's left of a mosquito net into a shirt, but it's clearly a few sizes too big for this guy and he just looks kinda creepy anyway...maybe it's the 'stache.  This take (http://www.thedeviants...) looks much more appropriate for the wearer.  I'm not sporting anything like that, but some people can probably pull it off in the right contexts.

    So those semi-transparent lace shirt ads from American Apparel can take a nasty turn any minute now.  Brace yourself.

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    7/17/2010 Vivek "When I wake up imma be yelping" S. says:

    I love those ads.  They combine my two loves: scantily-clad women and swiss typeface.

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    7/17/2010 she "squirrels are little people with a hairy overbite" s. says:

    I am surprised in this day and age where everybody gets their knickers in a knot about everything under the sun that AA has not been called on their suggestive ads but then the sitcom Two & a Half Men which I love is totally sexist and anti women go figure

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    7/17/2010 she "squirrels are little people with a hairy overbite" s. says:

    also there is this old dude who is really tall and skinny who must shop there because he is always wearing neon coloured leggings with a hot pink thong showing sometimes the guy has to be in his late 60s or 70s ... I always see him in the yonge wellesley bloor area

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    7/17/2010 Peter "Bulletproof Soul" M. says:

    I'm surprised no one has posted this yet:

    http://www.theonion.co...

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    7/19/2010 Karl "Kid Don Cornelius" R. says:

    Not sure which ads the OP is referring to but the subway ads I see look quite horrid. It almost seems they grabbed street people and put them in ads. Remember the CK ads from about 10 years ago that looked like screen tests for twink porn?

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    7/29/2010 David "Yay! I'm a fan" M. says:

    Do you mean the AA ads on this site?  I noticed them for the first time today.  Don't like any ads on Yelp, but I guess it was just a matter of time.

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    7/30/2010 Ben "Meister" W. says:

    Yay helvetica & nice labour practices! Use of sexuality to market a product-not so much.

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    7/30/2010 Kat "don't get me started!" F. says:

    Just saw one for the first time - where the hell is her belly button?

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    7/30/2010 from Yelp for iPhone zahir "Zap" p. says:

    Her belly button was not my foremost thought...but now that you mention it...

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    7/30/2010 she "squirrels are little people with a hairy overbite" s. says:

    looks like they pay Yelp lots of $$$ for advertising
    actually when it first opened I thought the clothing looked Paris Hilton inspired

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    7/30/2010 Renata "nyanyanyan" R. says:

    Actually, they almost grab people in the streets for their photoshoots. Anyone can apply (there's a link on their website) and I've heard they sometimes their sales people. It's the "girl next-door" feeling.

    I usually think their ads suck.

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    7/30/2010 Dejan M. says:

    I saw an interesting take on this in "Canadian Business":

    http://www.canadianbus...

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    7/31/2010 Thom H. says:

    Wow, I can't believe that you asked this question.  I was just wondering the same thing.  The one with the woman wearing shorts heading up a some steps towards a door just plain does it for me like nothing else.  Her in those shorts kills me.  And there's another one  of a woman looking towards camera with no background that I remember.  I saw it recently on a subway wall.  I had entered the station with the intention of walking to the extreme other end of the platform, but when I was passing one of those ads I simply stopped in my tracks.  Weirder still, I didn't even really look at the ad.  I was reading at the time, and I guess I wanted to read in close proximity to that photography.

    I don't think I've ever been quite so enslaved by any pictures of women before.  They are astoundingly beguiling.

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