Fred Deal

December 2009

English 393

The following instructions are for the correct folding of Abercrombie & Fitch Men’s Jeans.

This process is useful for all employees of any Abercrombie & Fitch store in the world. It can help those employees who may be confused on how to fold the jeans properly and it allows for the correct folding to be done every time.

This process should be completed anytime a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch Men’s IF jeans are being put back onto the sales floor closets.

The materials that are needed in order to fold the jeans properly are a pair of Men’s IF jeans, (Baxter, Kilburn, or Horton), a flat surface, and size stickers.

1.) Locate the style of jeans that you will be folding. The style can be found inside the pair of jeans near the button fly.

Figure 1. Located the style of jeans

2.) Go to the bottom shelf of the jean closet and locate the jean closet write-up/size chart under the bottom most pair of jeans.

Figure 2. Location of write-up Figure 3. Men’s IF Jeans write-up/size chart

3.) Locate the SKU tag on the pair of jeans and Identify style and color numbers (last 7 digits) and size of the jeans.

Figure 4. SKU tag.

3339: Style Number

029: Color Number

30x32: Size

4.) On the write-up/size chart locate the placement of that particular style/size jeans in the closet for after completing folding.

Figure 5. Write-up/Size Chart style numbers and size location

Note:

The jeans being folded in this process are Baxter Dark Destroyed,

Style:3339

Size: 30x32

5.) Begin folding jeans by buttoning the bottom two (2) buttons of the fly, leaving the top two (2) open.

Figure 6. Buttons Open

6.) Place jeans face down on flat surface and fold back, in half, exposing the front pocket, with crotch of the jeans to the right.

Figure 7. Jeans folded in half

Exposed front pocket.

Crotch to the right.

7.) Fold jeans in half length wise, so that the bottoms of the legs are even with the font waist line.

Figure 8. Jeans folded in half, length wise

8.) Fold the bottom (the knees) to just beneath top of the crotch line of the jeans.

Figure 9. knees folded to crotch line

Crotch lineKnees of jeans

9.) Fold the bottoms of the legs of the jeans down to meet the bottom of the edge of what had been folded.

Figure 10. Bottoms of legs folded to bottom

10.) Flip jeans over to the reverse side, (side that was lying on surface, now faces you).

Figure 11. Jeans flipped

11.) Place jeans in correct position in closet according the write-up/size chart

Figure 12. Position on chart Figure 13. Position in closet

12.) Once jean is in the closet, place the correct size sticker approx. 2” from right corner of jeans so it is in line with the rest of the pile.

30 x 32

Figure 14. Size sticker on jeans

Note: Not actual color of numbers

30 x 32

30 x 32

Figure 15. Size stickers in line

13.) If you are still unsure, reference the write-up/size chart for more demonstration of how to fold, or ask a co-worker.

Figure 15. folding help on write-up

The jeans folded in this exercise were destroyed and therefore have a different fold than non-destroyed jeans.

Abercrombie & Fitch also folds women’s jeans differently.