Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!

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Anonymous wrote:COS

Super thin, very chic late 20s-mid 30s European woman (Italian or French come to mind) who relocated to DC for work. Probably lives in Dupont or in the vicinity of the 14/U corridor. Likes to buy the bulk of her clothes back home when visiting family, but COS will do for a quick thing when she's stateside. Always gets compliments for her outfits when out and about.

Ha! This is exactly me in every respect, but I'm British

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Free People

30-somethings finally making money but trying to recapture the glory of their 20s anyway. Wish they lived in SoCal. Attend at least one music festival a year. Have a record collection. SigO has a prominent facial hair. Parents are norm-core AF.

Haha I’m from SoCal and have a huge record collection and used to go to every farm aid concert. Good income, 30 something... I do love my free people.

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M.M. La Fleur

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Anonymous wrote:^ Oh, and my prompt is:

Talbots.

Middle-aged women who are tired of hunting around for appropriate clothing of decent quality, especially if they have out on a few pounds and/or don’t want their bra straps hanging out and their thighs not out there. Not trying to be hot, just respectably attired. Guilty as charged - has replaced Lord and Taylor as my go-to store of choice if I have an occasion where I must get something that will do today without going to a million stores.

Neiman Marcus

Woman who likes to shop and has good taste, but hates going into each store individually and looking at things. She knows exactly what she wants and it's all right there. Secretly shops the winter sale to get really good items she's been eyeing for a while. Gets her make-up and hair products there, too. It's her one-stop-shop. Definitely has a Virgo placement somewhere in her chart. Very well-spoken and articulate, can come off as serious but has a very relaxed personal style.

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Shopbop

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Anonymous wrote:Everlane

Over-stressed, prestige-obsessed insecure overachiever who left their heart in San Francisco. Going to business school or praying daily for an acceptance from HBS, Wharton, or GSB on the daily. Has read every business book known to man and wears Allbirds unironically. Hates the dating apps but feels pressure to be booed up simply to say they did it. Has a Biden/Harris sign in their window and posts all the “right” woke pictures and hashtags on their carefully curated social media while only motivated by money and prestige in real life. Will talk a HUGE game about “doing good and doing well” and “making a difference” but never take meaningful action.

Free People

I think the bolded is going to be my new descriptor for a certain type of person. You could have just written that

Free People...hmmm, I didn't know people still wore this brand. Here's a guess:
Younger set - BoHo chic high schoolers and college kids signaling that they weren't raised by Tiger Moms or that they are rebelling against their Tiger Moms.
Older set - People who haven't bothered to update their style since the late-90s/aughts. Fairly wide range of demographics, though primarily UMC.

Now do: St. Johns.

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Anonymous wrote:GAP

Born the middle child in a middle class family from middle America, Larla is too frugal to shop at Banana Republic but thinks the clothes at Old Navy are for the poors. She wouldn't be caught dead buying Safeway Select food, but rarely sets foot in a Whole Foods. Larla shops at the GAP but has been known to purchase her children's clothing from Gymboree - the sticker shock she experienced at Janie and Jack was too much for her. She drives a certified pre-owned Honda Civic and lives in Alexandria, the part in Fairfax County.

I actually shop a diversity of stores and brands, but this post describes the facet of myself that's in the forefront when I shop at Gap to a tee. (Well, I guess I grew up UMC as the middle child in the midwest, and we have a used Toyota mini-van. Also, when I lived in DMV, I lived in Arlington/Clarendon.)

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Anonymous wrote:Stitchfix

Larla has been involved in at least 3 MLMs (Younique, ItWORKS! and DoTerra essential oils). She heard about Stitchfix from one of her Y-sisters (pink status, whoohoo!) and just had to give it a try. She once experienced a passing pang of sadness when she walked past a dress in TJMaxx listed at 1/4 the price she paid for it in her Stitchfix box, but the rollerball of corpseflower oil in her purse calmed her right down.

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Anonymous wrote:Stitchfix

Larla has been involved in at least 3 MLMs (Younique, ItWORKS! and DoTerra essential oils). She heard about Stitchfix from one of her Y-sisters (pink status, whoohoo!) and just had to give it a try. She once experienced a passing pang of sadness when she walked past a dress in TJMaxx listed at 1/4 the price she paid for it in her Stitchfix box, but the rollerball of corpseflower oil in her purse calmed her right down.

This one made me laugh in real life -- great writing, PP!

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OK, this thread is great!

Boden

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Boden

Larla is the consummate Anglophile - she has visited the UK not once but TWICE and loves Downton Abbey and The Crown. She even drinks tea! She is also quirky - lovably quirky, not annoyingly quirky. Larla wants everyone to know she wears imported European clothes and posts photos on Instagram of herself and her "littles", George and Caroline, sporting their Boden. Larla has gotten in several internet rumbles with moms stanning Hanna Andersson.

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J.McLaughlin

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Rachel Comey

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:COS

Super thin, very chic late 20s-mid 30s European woman (Italian or French come to mind) who relocated to DC for work. Probably lives in Dupont or in the vicinity of the 14/U corridor. Likes to buy the bulk of her clothes back home when visiting family, but COS will do for a quick thing when she's stateside. Always gets compliments for her outfits when out and about.

Ha! This is exactly me in every respect, but I'm British

This makes me giggle. I work in a museum and COS is the uniform of every curator in the joint who's not executive level. Size two, size fourteen; American or Belgian; whatever. EVERYBODY MUST WEAR COS.

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Anonymous wrote:J.McLaughlin

Larla has known ever since her days in the Delta Sigma Theta Upsilon Gamma house that she would land an Executive Husband and no longer have to slum it in the J. Crew clothing purchased on her dad's credit card. The minute she strolled through the front door of the Reston Town Center J. McLaughlin store, Panera sandwich in hand, she knew she was home.