Urban Outfitters (Urban Outfitters)

Member Name: sugarcultsweetie

Product:	Urban Outfitters
Date:	06/06/09 (47 review reads)
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Advantages: Unique, cool fashion, good stores and website

Disadvantages: Price

Urban Outfitters is the store I gaze longingly at in passing, request birthday gifts from, and promise myself I shall shop at all the time once I become a millionaire (still waiting...)

Urban Outfitters offer homeware and gifts, all adorable and many fairly useless - however, there are gems to be found in the case of unique picture frames, mugs and jewellery stands, and this section always excites me when my local store announces a sale. Perfect to buy snazzy presents from, but often rather expensive for what you may regard as staple household items.

The male and female fashion sections offer a boutique collection alongside the main shop designs, boasting items from Fred Perry to Vivienne Westwood. To be perfectly honest, I more or less ignore that section. The women's clothing and accessories are consistently at the height of fashion, yet items are quirky and different from the Topshop brigade's offerings. Dresses, tops and jewellery are my personal top fashion items from this shop, regularly unique from other highstreet fashion and displayed in well-linked collections.

Urban Outfitters window displays sell a lifestyle over the fashion items themselves, and the stores appear as a giant kooky boutique. It's easy to get absorbed in the atmosphere of the shop, and staff members are generally friendly and unquestionably hip.

You are drawn into this shop by appearance, and shooed out again by the connected price tags, men's printed t-shirts often asking £20-35 each. Yes, Urban Outfitters is an expensive shop, and much of the third-party pieces can be found elsewhere for less. However, the stores themselves are a joy to browse round, and I believe on the odd expensive occasion, it is money well-spent.

Summary: Beautiful items great on the odd occasion