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lets bash urban outfitters.
i'll start. i hate the stoopid fuckign employees who work there who think they're the fucking shit, but they're just lame losers who read too much nme and vice and wish they could shake their emo past.
also. their clothes are overpriced and shit.

― social value (kissmyfist), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

GAY GAY GAY

― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yah.
and they have stoopid sonic youth shirts there.

― ssd (kissmyfist), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of pretty girls there though

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

and cheapish cords that are nicer than other cheapish cords

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always found the employees pleasant as well

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

and they sell yoshitomo nara stuff, which bothered me for about ten minutes but then made me happy.

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the title is urban outfitters SUCK, dan. not urban outfitters GOOD
sheesh

― des (kissmyfist), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Like a sickly anti-chrysalis wherein the butterflies of "hip" unknowingly fly in, only to be transformed into the rancid larvae that is "dated" and "no-longer-hip". If you bought it at Urban Outfitters, it's time has already come and gone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

yes! alex is correct!

― des (kissmyfist), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

and if you're worried about whether or not something's time has come and gone, then you're a what?

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

shut up dan.
its a stoopid store for stoopid people and yuppies

― des (kissmyfist), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

how come you know so much about it then?

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, i figured it out.

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

go to Wholesale Liquidators right next door ("Turban Outfitters"), their stuff is timeless

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

cos i know bout lotsa stuff.
dont mean i like it

― rrr (kissmyfist), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also they sell the
racist game "Ghettopoly"
and those candle-things

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: what's worse, urban outfitters or this thread?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway, their clothes are shittily made and apparently to shop there you have to be purging or have a serious speed habit.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it's great to steal stuff from, all that small stuff next to the door is soooooo easy

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

is that where your nickname, or rather "nick"-name comes from. *chuckle*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Is "Ghettopoly" emo?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

*purges*

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

*binges*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

*pinches*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

U O in the uk is quite a different propostion, its like an extremely expensive boutique type set up with loads of designer labels - Mark Jacobs, Paul Smith etc. Bizarre.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that also sucks tho, but it sucks cos i can't afford it more than anything else.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

In Dublin it seems to be like the American one, or perhaps a mix of both. It's really good at times, relative to what else we have here. Expensive yeah but some of the t-shirts are the best, klaus samsoe's art print ones are cool. I don't really like the "who the fuck is prada" one though, not clever.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah - complete crap, someone was talking to me in a club lat week with one of those t shorts on and really, he could have been a nice guy but i couldnt take my mind off his vile appaling t shirt.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a really cheap slogan yeah! very top shop or something. also it's kind of conservative isn't it, most people would take it as an attack from the right rather than from a position of superiority.

My friend has this great t-shirt he got in Urban Outfitters which basically has a massive spider graph of bands all linked together at various points, it's all the Slits, Soul Sonic Force, The Normal, etc etc trendy 70s and 80s bands. Really cool.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I was a bit confused last week when the UO opened in Covent Garden and Time OUt said something about it's designer pedegree because it's largely junk in the US, although not bad junk. I was just remarking to someone else that years ago UO used to be like a low-rent Z GAllerie or Pier One even, then got "hip" but was always behind the curve, and everyone sneered at it, but now, there is a certain generation of kids in their early 20s who don't sneer at it and seem to proudly use it as their main shopping source, so it's lost that "wannabe" label (in the bay area anyway, of course California is always about a year behind in fashio anyway so this is probably not the case in NY).

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It is incredibly expensive sadly.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

UO does kinda suck but there are none in my state (I think) so I go check it out when I see one. Invariably I really like a couple of things and loathe everything else.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Invariably I really like a couple of things and loathe everything else.

oh man, I just realized this also applies to politics, people, going outside, staying inside, television, books, etc etc.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry I'm feeling incredibly dull today.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i have no idea where samsoe is coming from with that t shirt - i mean everyone knows prada, right? everyone knows its a bit of a rip off, but not at much of a rip off as a t shirt with "who the fuck is prada?" on it. I mean is it supposed to appeal to cool kids? cos they dont really give a shit about prada, but they don't give a shit about not giving a shit about it either... ok thats confusing, but the T is terrible... and mainline prada is - well - often pretty good in fact. I thought fcuk made some bad t shirts but this one takes the biscuit.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never even seen an Urban Outfitters!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

oh it can't be as bad as fcuk ones, christ they're awful. some streamlined corporate glasscase idea of "moody" at work there. I can't help but think "thick" when I see one.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

...i think in fact what's pathetic about it is the fact that its supposed to look like a kinda punky slogan, home made looking, blah blah - and what he chooses to vilify in his sloganeering is, em, a succesful fashion house. who gives a shit? (i do clearly!)

fcuk t-shirts are helpful -as soon as you see someone with one on you know that theres no point talking to them cos they're gonna be dull fuckers (sorry fcuckers, jeez)

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

corporate glasscase

haha!

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

they are a horrible fit aswell! I only know because my brother had some ok. urban outfitters has loads of other dud t-shirts aswell, the boring "porn star" variety and all the variants thereof.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's an o.k. store apart from the K-LAME prefab 'vintage' t-shirts; problem is, I think they make up half the store's sales.

― Aaron A., Friday, 5 December 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

go to Wholesale Liquidators right next door ("Turban Outfitters"), their stuff is timeless

I love National Wholesale Liquidators. When I lived in NoHo we called it the Cheapo Depot. I got a very nice automatic orange juice juicer there.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

They treat their employees like shit... my ex-girlfriend used to work at the Ann Arbor store along with her friends. One friend, who was a manager, got fired for taking a smoke break when the regional manager happened to stop in. This was after she'd been working 60+ hour weeks but was only salaried for 40, so basically got 0 overtime and crap pay. Plus everyone who shopped at the Ann Arbor store at least are annoying... it's where people no style shop to try to buy something hip. Along with selling the incredibly racist Ghettopoly (which was created by some guy from Asia who's lived in the U.S. for 5 years and based it all on what he saw on TV). Crap.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, Dara has bitched multitudes about the one in Ann Arbour! It's the only one that I've spent any time in at all, (During the week I was stranded there) and I thought it was fairly weak.

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

When I met Nick Harcourt he was wearing this shirt:
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/images/p57607c.jpg

although obv his rack was not as nice.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the 50% off the lowest price table. $20 cookie cutters for a $1!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

When Urban Outfitters started selling t-shirts with the CBGB's logo (now ubiquotous) and pre-faded shirts with the Ramones logo, a little part of me died. And someday, I'm going make them all pay!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

long live national wholesale liquidators!! i think every piece of plastic in my kitchen came from that place.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, i have worse news for you - you can now buy a pre-faded Ramones Tshirt in Top Man.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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I wouldn't say "stumpy," but my thigh-width to leg-length ratio doesn't seem to be one that most manufacturers of pants consider.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

*Gratuitous joke about Sarah wearing the pants in the family*

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Dude, 'whitey' has long legs!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned yet that the owner is a republican asshole...

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=5725

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

30X36 BING!

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

Well, how many big companies aren't owned by republican assholes? :/

(although reading about that humongous donation to Rick Santorum made me squirm...)

― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

26X34.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

In that case I think you can stop needing legs more.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

This whole leg thing reminds me of Gattaca. I forget, did they do extension or shortening? I may have to get extensions to buy pants at Urge Overkill.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zoobooks.com/newFrontPage/animals/virtualZoo/animals/o/ostrich/images/ostrich.gif

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Ooh we just watched Gattaca the other night, they did extentioning. The thing about that movie is that it's completely plausible that Jude Law and Uma Thurman are genetically engineered humans; in fact if they aren't I'll eat my hat.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Haha, now I'm thinking that Ethan Hawke is a failed early experiement, and now he's deteriorating at an accelerated rate!! (I mean, have you seen the guy lately? - not pretty).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Well that's just god punishing him for actually thinking a dude like him could do better than banging Uma Thurman. I mean, seriously.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Her dad's put a Tibetan curse on him.
x-post

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Buddha is a spiteful god!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arizona-friends-of-tibet.org/cd-TIBET.jpg

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

(I'm wearing my one Urban Outfitters t-shirt right now - it's been relegated to home-only use these days, but Ally et al had the fortune to see it the day I bought it in NYC)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who has modeled for them and they are much better than other people she has worked for. They actually gave her meals on the shoot, rather than most who encourage starvation.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Which reminds me - is there a thread for the latest series of America's Next Top Model (which has only just started showing over here, so no spoilers please!)?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

They actually gave her meals on the shoot,

What kind of modeling shoot is that??? It just sounds cruel to me!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Also, I would totally wear a t-shirt that had that ostrich on it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

The thing is though, their clothes are so suck for girls these days (by these days I mean the past 3 years).

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

For guys too. I actually went in looking for jeans. The guys shoes are terrible too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

What I like at UO is that they started making their t-shirts sans designs. I always liked the fabric they used for their t-shirts but not so keen on actually walking around in public in a shirt that says "EVERYONE LOVES A LATIN GIRL" or some such. I got their CBGB shirt as a joke once, and the one that says "EVERYONE LOVES A CATHOLIC GIRL" as a joke once, like as gifts. 2 shirts worn outside of my house a grand total of one single time (not each). Actually the former was only worn once even inside the house before it got destroyed but that's, um, another story altogether. I dunno, their t-shirts are nice fabric and hold up well and do well with my habit of cutting them all apart and doing other things to them, they don't get frayed up and stuff, but they always had stupid shit all over them until very, very recently when you can now buy plain ones and my beef with the UO has been minimized somewhat.

Their clothing for men seems to be far, far superior. With the exception of pants. Oh and jackets. Oh and well pretty much everything except their boys' t-shirts aren't as ridiculously ugly and offensive.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

they sell the black sabbath box set there in the "books" section

― chakichaki, Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Everything seems to be crocheted there right now. That bothers me. And just looking at women's shoes for spring, they are hideous.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Again, I think all their shirts should have that Ostrich on them. And I am going back to buy the "I hate Books" shirt. But the guys stuff has all this crap all over it. Yellow stains, and random purple threads, and brown crosses haphazardly stitched onto butts, and like prints of frogs on lapels. I'm not a japanese teenager for god's sake!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

ha ha, I once worked in an urban outfitters part time. I got a huge discount on clothing, but better yet, they'd put out tons of bags of trash full of comforters, clothes, etc. which I would take home with me on the sly. The funniest part was the 'quiz' you had to take to work there which contained questions like 'have you ever stolen anything?' Oh, that'll work, because someone who stole something would never lie.

― UOUOUO, Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I have a pair of too-short olive-green faux-pinstriped pants from there that I actually quite appreciate. But I think that's just because I bought them in entirely the wrong size, turning them into a whole different design than they were originally meant to be.

I can't get a lock on my pant sizing because of variations in how different cuts accommodate or do-not-accommodate ass: the waist goes anywhere from 29 to 32, and the length from 30 to 32.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=33911165#/

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 15 September 2014 04:58 (eleven years ago)

What the shit

― yarn (jjjusten), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:00 (eleven years ago)

^^ What happens when edgy leaps far over the edge and lands squarely in crass brain dead stupidity.

― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 05:06 (eleven years ago)

fuck off with that

jeeeezus

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 15 September 2014 05:07 (eleven years ago)

Either they pulled it down or some motherfucker bought it.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 September 2014 06:09 (eleven years ago)

http://www.veooz.com/photos/RHUiAjy.html

http://images.urbanoutfitters.com/is/image/UrbanOutfitters/33911165_000_b

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Monday, 15 September 2014 06:17 (eleven years ago)

they do this every few years, they're just acting out

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 15 September 2014 07:10 (eleven years ago)

it's basically their whole brand strategy, "occasionally sell something undeniably offensive for controversy and then pull it and apologize and then money happens"

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 15 September 2014 07:11 (eleven years ago)

Having shit for brains is a brand strategy?

― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:38 (eleven years ago)

As far as I know, they're not closing locations on a regular basis, so business must be okay despite making people go insane with anger every few months.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:10 (eleven years ago)

"despite"

― mattresslessness, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:11 (eleven years ago)

Sold out. Were they selling the kent state sweatshirt?

― Treeship, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:28 (eleven years ago)

They were selling a one of a kind (there's a section on the site devoted to things like that). Then it appeared to be bought. Then the buyer put it up for auction on ebay and ebay took it down after someone notified them about it I'd presume.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

Are there a lot of hipsters pledging to frats these days? Because that seems to be their target demo.

― Bouffants and Other Coifs (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:43 (eleven years ago)

Hipsterbros everywhere it seems

― Evan, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)

good take:
http://bullettmedia.com/article/genius-marketers-urban-outfitters-troll-us-free-pr-bloody-kent-state-sweatshirt/

― global tetrahedron, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:08 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/10/urban-outfitters-sells-tapestry-eerily-reminiscent-of-holocaust-garb/

― how's life, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 12:57 (ten years ago)

why?

― Treeship, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)

it's a social commentary on the obama-netanyahu tension lately

they know jews love a good joke

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

new quarter new controversy

― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:04 (ten years ago)

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