Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch will stop selling some of its T-shirts after a national boycott by teenage girls who objected to slogans on the apparel such as "Who needs brains when you have these?".

The teen-oriented company, often criticized for its suggestive advertising featuring scantily-clad young models, did not specify which T-shirts it would pull.

It says in a brief statement that "We recognize that the shirts in question, while meant to be humorous, might be troubling to some."

Earlier this week, the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania staged a "girl-cott" of the store in protest over the T-shirts, launching an e-mail campaign and appearing on NBC's "Today" show to air their concerns.

Other T-shirts featured the slogans, "Blondes are adored, brunettes are ignored," and "I make you look fat."

The latest controversy is not the first for the retailer. Two years ago, Abercrombie and Fitch pulled its glossy catalogs featuring nude men and women, and after protests it discontinued a line of T-shirts that Asian-Americans claimed was racially insensitive.

Abercrombie and Fitch on reported a 31-percent jump in its October same-store sales, a key measure of retail performance.