The cardigan, however, wasn't enough to satisfy the Abercrombie team. As Riam recalls:

"A worker from what they call the "visual team", people who are employed to go round making sure the shop and its staff look up to scratch, came up to me and demanded I take the cardigan off. I told her, yet again, that I had been given special permission to wear it. A few minutes later my manager came over to me and said: "I can't have you on the shop floor as you are breaking the Look Policy. Go to the stockroom immediately and I'll get someone to replace you. I pride myself on being quite a confident girl but I had never experienced prejudice like that before and it made me feel utterly worthless. Afterwards I telephoned the company's head office where a member of staff asked whether I was willing to work in the stockroom until the winter uniform arrived. That was the final straw. I just couldn't go back."

She is now suing the company, which, by the way, already paid 2.2 million dollars

What a crappy company to work for. If I could afford to shop there I wouldn't do it.

A&F is pandering to snobs who think anything that does not fit their self-righteous, shallow, elitist, Stepford existence is beneath them.

OK, that's it. When I'm eventually rich (a favorite delusion), I will continue not to shop at Abercrombie & Fitch. They should start feeling sorry right now. Repent, running-dog A&F!