Anonymous
12/17/2020 11:56
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Lucky Brand
Does this exist anymore? I remember it was all the rage like 15 years ago and I wore their jeans but then the company went out of business?
Anonymous
12/17/2020 11:52
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:JJill
You were so thrilled when J.Jill opened in Friendship Heights a few years ago. You always felt a little insecure about J.Jill. It seemed like the cheaper, midwestern version of Eileen Fisher, right next door. But now that it had a store in FH, you felt validated. It belonged there, right alongside Eileen, Talbots, Cole Haan, and Bloomies! To be honest, even if you could afford the occasional Eileen Fisher piece, you always felt so guilty spending $250 for a grey piece of shapeless wool. How do those models look so chic and artsy? Must be the shoes.
HA! I was like, How DO you describe a j Jill shopper? But this is totally it!
J Jill shopper here. I don't live near Friendship Heights, but also tend to favor Talbots. I have eyed some Eillen Fisher items in the Garnet Hill catalog I continue to get, but have been turned off by the prices. To that extent, this is accurate.
For me, I shop there because their clothes are comfortable while still looking pulled togther and professional. A a middle aged mom who works full time, I'm no longer interested in trying to squeeze myself into corporate structured clothing as I no longer feel the need to impress with a formal work wardrobe - my work speaks for itself. Their clothing is also very forgiving for the extra 10-15 lbs of baby weight I never lost.
Anonymous
12/17/2020 08:49
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Marimekko
Anonymous
12/17/2020 08:45
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:TAHARI
Anonymous
12/17/2020 07:11
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Lucky Brand
Anonymous
12/17/2020 05:08
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OK, this thread is great!
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.
No way. Larla has never been to the UK. She vacations in Outer Banks or Rehoboth, and dreams of someday owning her own vacation home (or condo?) in one of those places. She's an "active mom" who works part time mainly because she doesn't respect SAHMs (although she secretly envies them) and runs the occasional 5k. If she posts, it's on Facebook and is probably some kind of transparent humble-brag about her kids or her latest athletic endeavor. She's been buying clothes from catalogs way before it was mainstream, and can't understand why anyone would waste time shopping in a store when they could be out on the trails with a jogging stroller.
This.
Boden is as British as Haagen-Daaz is Dutch.Or whatever people think of when they hear the name.
? Boden is a British company.
Signed,
A Brit
Anonymous
12/17/2020 02:49
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Faherty
Anonymous
12/16/2020 23:01
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Eddie Bauer
You grew up in the age of Ivory girls and always admired that fresh-faced look (it dried your skin out and caused horrible flaking, which you always assumed was due to the hard water from the well on your family farm). These days you're more into Mary Kay, which seems kind of exclusive because you can only buy it if you *know* someone. You don't dye your hair and like to tell people you're "rockin' the gray" but actually you just can't stomach the thought of plunking down $250 for a stinky toxic hair process that only lasts a few months and doesn't make you look any more fresh and natural than those old bars of Ivory soap did. So you're, you know, *leaning in* to the whole aging thing, staring down the barrel of 50 with the same fierceness with which you used to wrangle ornery milk cows. You don't wear makeup and take pried in that fact that dammit, you look like real woman and not some barbie doll, and anyway you're focused on more important things than looking pretty, like raising a family and chopping wood for the fireplace and making homemade Christmas cookies (you live in a townhouse in Reston and have a gas fireplace, but *inside* you're a badass wood chopping frontier woman and that's what counts).
Anonymous
12/16/2020 21:23
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Costco
You just can't believe how expensive childcare has become for you and DH after have DC 1 and DC2. You sprung for a house in Kensington, and while you love the cozy neighborhood, it feels small and expensive, and was a stretch and couldn't have been possible if your DH's parents hadn't helped with the down payment. Your parents couldn't have helped at all- you're first generation American, and you went to college at University of Maryland on a combination of loans and jobs. You now work in at a federal contractor and try your best to stick to 40 hours a week, but its getting untenable and you're thinking of quitting your job.
In college, you used to be able to swing cute outfits with a combination of Forever 21, H&M, and Zara, but between work and kids you don't have time for that anymore, so now it feels smarter to swing through the center of the costco store to grab things for you, DH, and the kids. Especially love Costco's underwear (ugh, I know, not sexy but who cares), shoes (puma's for $20!) and the Carters sets for the kiddos. You can't wait for the Costco winter jackets to come out for you all. After your excursion, you debate going to Target, but Larla is getting cranky, so you load up your Rav4 with all the Costco goodies, the absolute high of getting a good deal and feeding and clothing you family washes over you. You drive off into the sunset excited to eat lime chicken street tacos for dinner, and hoping Larla doesn't throw ALL the cheerios from her high chair onto the floor.
You just can't believe how expensive childcare has become for you and DH after have DC 1 and DC2. You sprung for a house in Kensington, and while you love the cozy neighborhood, it feels small and expensive, and was a stretch and couldn't have been possible if your DH's parents hadn't helped with the down payment. Your parents couldn't have helped at all- you're first generation American, and you went to college at University of Maryland on a combination of loans and jobs. You now work in at a federal contractor and try your best to stick to 40 hours a week, but its getting untenable and you're thinking of quitting your job.
In college, you used to be able to swing cute outfits with a combination of Forever 21, H&M, and Zara, but between work and kids you don't have time for that anymore, so now it feels smarter to swing through the center of the costco store to grab things for you, DH, and the kids. Especially love Costco's underwear (ugh, I know, not sexy but who cares), shoes (puma's for $20!) and the Carters sets for the kiddos. You can't wait for the Costco winter jackets to come out for you all. After your excursion, you debate going to Target, but Larla is getting cranky, so you load up your Rav4 with all the Costco goodies, the absolute high of getting a good deal and feeding and clothing you family washes over you. You drive off into the sunset excited to eat lime chicken street tacos for dinner, and hoping Larla doesn't throw ALL the cheerios from her high chair onto the floor.
Anonymous
12/16/2020 18:45
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Eddie Bauer
Anonymous
12/16/2020 18:39
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Flax
Anonymous
12/16/2020 18:25
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:JJill
You were so thrilled when J.Jill opened in Friendship Heights a few years ago. You always felt a little insecure about J.Jill. It seemed like the cheaper, midwestern version of Eileen Fisher, right next door. But now that it had a store in FH, you felt validated. It belonged there, right alongside Eileen, Talbots, Cole Haan, and Bloomies! To be honest, even if you could afford the occasional Eileen Fisher piece, you always felt so guilty spending $250 for a grey piece of shapeless wool. How do those models look so chic and artsy? Must be the shoes.
HA! I was like, How DO you describe a j Jill shopper? But this is totally it!
Anonymous
12/16/2020 17:43
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:JJill
You were so thrilled when J.Jill opened in Friendship Heights a few years ago. You always felt a little insecure about J.Jill. It seemed like the cheaper, midwestern version of Eileen Fisher, right next door. But now that it had a store in FH, you felt validated. It belonged there, right alongside Eileen, Talbots, Cole Haan, and Bloomies! To be honest, even if you could afford the occasional Eileen Fisher piece, you always felt so guilty spending $250 for a grey piece of shapeless wool. How do those models look so chic and artsy? Must be the shoes.
Anonymous
12/16/2020 17:39
Subject: Re:Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:LL BEAN
You bought your first pair of LL duck boots when you were a first year at that progressive liberal arts college out east. Ever since then, you've been receiving their catalogs in the mail. From the duck boots, you went on to acquire a collection of fleeces and the occasional down puffer that gives off that casual, outdoor, preppy vibe that you've always adored but never quite flew growing up in LA. You were so excited when you bought your first boat bag - with navy straps, of course - and had your initials monogrammed at the outlet store on a road trip to see the leaves change color with your law school boyfriend. He's gone, but you still have your trusty boat bag, a bit tattered but none the worse for the wear. After law school, you parted ways. (He ended up at a white shoe firm in NYC, but you occasionally keep in touch via FB and noticed that he takes an annual trek up north with his family - does he still think of you? Hmmm....) You took a job at a boutique firm in DC, met DH at an alumni event, and now have three kids and live in Wesley Heights. The kids all went to Mann, and you loved how they looked carrying their LL Bean book bags in three different colors all with their initials monogrammed. You kept their junior size backpacks (even though they're all now at St. Albans and NCS) because they remind you of their childhood. Your kids don't like LL Bean at all anymore ("So basic, Mom"), but you still have a half-dozen boat bags for the beach house in Rehoboth. Also, their flannel bedsheets are the best! You have a golden retriever, sweet old Buddy, in part because those puppies were unbelievably adorable in the hundreds of catalogs you've been receiving over the last three decades. On Saturday afternoons pre-Covid when you headed up to Millie's in your 15-year-old Mercedes station wagon for your weekly frosé with your mom friends, you could often be seen wearing your Bean fleece (in cream, or navy), pearl studs, and skinny jeans. You are secretly pleased that you've retained your slim figure because you don't look frumpy in fleece (besides, you get cold so easily and wonder how those women in sleeveless Lily Pulitzer shifts stay warm!) and achieved that fresh-faced look into middle age.
Anonymous
12/16/2020 17:39
Subject: Post a store or brand, and we’ll guess who shops there!
Anonymous wrote:Omg - Eileen Fisher PP just perfectly described my relative. Down to the kids school status. Bravo! And yes, she ONLY wears EF..
Thanks! That’s my only contribution so far.