Ann Taylor would be completely saved from its bad financial straights if I had the money to shop there to the degree I want to. Walking by their factory store (still too expensive) in a mall the other day I loved EVERYTHING I saw.
@DangerMouse: I'm pretty sure I wore a tube top. In my defense, I was 18, and I thought London would be hot and sunny in the summer. I have since learned.
It's ok Oscar, you can come have mojitos with me. We can talk about our stodginess in things like thinking it is inappropriate to wear a cardi to meet the Queen, and about how at least you will always have Clinton to wear your pantsuits. And you can throw me come clothes if you want to. I do fancy.
And don't even get me started on the REGULAR, non-Loft actual honest-to-god Ann Taylor stores. I'm too poor to even walk into one of those. There's like a repulsor force field that does a full-on neural scan for memories of your prior years' tax return, and if your income is under a certain minimum, you can't even get into the store. True story. I tried once and I bounced right off.
Tee-hee. Awesome! My boyfriend and I walked into a Gucci store once as a joke (seriously, it was a hipster-ironic gesture. we are sooo NOT Gucci people) and the black-clad sales people bounced us out with their disapproving sidelong glances in our general direction.
@tscheese: I don't get NEAR the non-Loft stores, mostly because of the aforementioned expensive+dowdy combo. However, I've gotten some great pants at low prices at AT Loft. I can actually order them online because they make talls and give you the measurements- it's all logical and efficient and whatnot.
@tscheese: Heheh, I had a similar experience in the handbag section of Debenhams (UK Department store). I have a weakness for Radley handbags (those things last FOR.EVER.), but I can usually only wangle them out of my mother for a present, and then usually at the discount outlet near us.
I went in because they started doing leather/canvas bags that were a little cheaper but just as hard-wearing because I desperately needed a new bookbag for Uni. I was WEARING a Radley that - at full retail - was worth more than the majority they had. And the salesperson decided I was too... individual to be seen around their bags and asked me to leave.
I left laughing and called my parents, who were in the mdidle of dropping a rather large amount on new suits in the mens dept for my Dad. They left without the suits and we haven't been back.
Also, I should point out I've had nothing but positive experiences in the London Radley-owned store. I just think the store staff - who aren't directly employed by Radley - were uptight snotty bitches.
@angelina jolie-laide is a gaudy tulip: Or Rick Owens, which this collection seems to be inspired by. I would surrender my hope for universal health care and just be her content biggest fan if she rocked a Rick Owens leather jacket.
I'm sorry, Ann Taylor. I would love to shop at you more often since you are the one store that makes clothes in my size, but you are too expensive. Also, some of your special collections were really unattractive last season. Gauzy florals for winter? Really?
@Jello Mix inspired Little Chocolate Donuts, No. 5: One of our local AT stores was closing and they were having a liquidation sale. My mom and I went in because she was looking for some nice work clothes. Do you know what the biggest discount was? 20%, and most items were still too expensive. Thanks but no thanks.
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Tee-hee. Awesome! My boyfriend and I walked into a Gucci store once as a joke (seriously, it was a hipster-ironic gesture. we are sooo NOT Gucci people) and the black-clad sales people bounced us out with their disapproving sidelong glances in our general direction.
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I went in because they started doing leather/canvas bags that were a little cheaper but just as hard-wearing because I desperately needed a new bookbag for Uni. I was WEARING a Radley that - at full retail - was worth more than the majority they had. And the salesperson decided I was too... individual to be seen around their bags and asked me to leave.
I left laughing and called my parents, who were in the mdidle of dropping a rather large amount on new suits in the mens dept for my Dad. They left without the suits and we haven't been back.
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Also, I should point out I've had nothing but positive experiences in the London Radley-owned store. I just think the store staff - who aren't directly employed by Radley - were uptight snotty bitches.
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