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[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
The vibe I get from Ann Taylor is "I am a 2L inteviewing" followed immediately by "I am a summer associate. What's for lunch?"

Bingo.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by nononono
It's like a barely upscaled KMart.

KMart is bad?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Ah. I think this works for me.

Really? I always find that AT stuff is tight in all the wrong places -- like under the arms and up the butt and around the elbows.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
jesus christ thank you fringey that is exactly what I meant.

rereading that, I had about 4 different thoughts in one paragraph and they didn't all go together. So which part did you mean? I'm pretty sure not that ncs and MM are best qualified to comment on your clothing choices.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
rereading that, I had about 4 different thoughts in one paragraph and they didn't all go together. So which part did you mean? I'm pretty sure not that ncs and MM are best qualified to comment on your clothing choices.

That for work clothes I shop at a lot of different places. Some nicer than others but for every day work stuff Ann Taylor is not a bad place to shop. They made it sound like it was like Ames or some shit. And the irony is the one that got all hard about work clothes is the one that doesn't work. d'oh!

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Really? I always find that AT stuff is tight in all the wrong places -- like under the arms and up the butt and around the elbows.

I wear a lot of sweaters, and not jackets or fitted shirts, so the elbows/arms thing not an issue really. I generally find jackets really uncomfortable and tend not to wear them.

I don't recall issues with their pants crawling up my butt.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Fuck Macy's. That POS second-rate store replaced our beloved Marshall Fields. I wouldn't mind that much if Macy's didn't sell completely worthless, lesser-quality crap. But they do.

My ex-wife and I call it The Crap House.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Really? I always find that AT stuff is tight in all the wrong places -- like under the arms and up the butt and around the elbows.

I have difficulty with up the butt for most pants everywhere. It's why I don't wear them (except jeans). I think that it is just an issue for long-torsoed women. Maybe AT especially caters to the shorter-torsoed woman pants-wise.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I have difficulty with up the butt for most pants everywhere. It's why I don't wear them (except jeans). I think that it is just an issue for long-torsoed women. Maybe AT especially caters to the shorter-torsoed woman pants-wise.

Wow. I don't wear pants either. strictly skirts at all times. even weekends sometimes. ann taylor stretch skirts ironically enough.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Wow. I don't wear pants either. strictly skirts at all times. even weekends sometimes. ann taylor stretch skirts ironically enough.

BFF?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I shop anywhere. Including Ann Taylor, Talbots, Ann Taylor Loft, and various department stores -- not usually macy's because in both malls I shop at, bloomingdales is closest to where I enter the mall area. Standards are very low where I work. Mr. Man and ncs would be best qualified to comment whether I look like a 2L interviewing or whatever, though they rarely see me in work clothes.

I have never seen you look like a 2L interviewing, but I think you may be taking bnb's statement a bit more literally than it was intended. (Not that Ann Taylor clothes look like summer associate clothes, but that they were the clothes that she bought before being a summer associate. And now that I think about it, I shopped there quite a bit for first year associate suits, all of which have now left my closet.)

I have some work pants from Ann Taylor and I must be the person they design them for because those are among my more comfortable and better fitting work pants. I do agree that the store tends too far towards synthectic fibers, though having a bit of stretch in some of the work pants is nice. And recall that I also have been known to buy Gap work pants, so most likely my standards cannot be trusted.

The only department store I go into regularly at this point is Nordstrom and really that is only because I have one across the street from my apartment. It is almost always disappointing too because it was a test store that was made significantly smaller than most Nordstroms and so selection in all areas (including, alas, shoes) is limited*. After they opened that store, I have heard that the response was not good and they bagged the idea of smaller Nordstrom stores in the future. Lucky me.



*Though now that I think about it, the men's department does tend to have good items and the men's shoe department is almost as big as women's so maybe this was some mastermind plot by a man to limit the women's stuff while getting full selection for himself. Evil genius.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I have difficulty with up the butt for most pants everywhere. It's why I don't wear them (except jeans). I think that it is just an issue for long-torsoed women. Maybe AT especially caters to the shorter-torsoed woman pants-wise.

Not even. I am very short torsoed. It's why I can't (or won't) wear big belts. They cut into my ribcage. But I digress.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I shop anywhere. Including Ann Taylor, Talbots, Ann Taylor Loft, and various department stores -- not usually macy's because in both malls I shop at, bloomingdales is closest to where I enter the mall area. Standards are very low where I work. Mr. Man and ncs would be best qualified to comment whether I look like a 2L interviewing or whatever, though they rarely see me in work clothes.

I piss anywhere man.
Mick Jagger 1966

I shop anywhere
Fringey 2006

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I have never seen you look like a 2L interviewing, but I think you may be taking bnb's statement a bit more literally than it was intended. (Not that Ann Taylor clothes look like summer associate clothes, but that they were the clothes that she bought before being a summer associate. And now that I think about it, I shopped there quite a bit for first year associate suits, all of which have now left my closet.)

I have some work pants from Ann Taylor and I must be the person they design them for because those are among my more comfortable and better fitting work pants. I do agree that the store tends too far towards synthectic fibers, though having a bit of stretch in some of the work pants is nice. And recall that I also have been known to buy Gap work pants, so most likely my standards cannot be trusted.

The only department store I go into regularly at this point is Nordstrom and really that is only because I have one across the street from my apartment. It is almost always disappointing too because it was a test store that was made significantly smaller than most Nordstroms and so selection in all areas (including, alas, shoes) is limited*. After they opened that store, I have heard that the response was not good and they bagged the idea of smaller Nordstrom stores in the future. Lucky me.



*Though now that I think about it, the men's department does tend to have good items and the men's shoe department is almost as big as women's so maybe this was some mastermind plot by a man to limit the women's stuff while getting full selection for himself. Evil genius.

The problem with Nordstrom is that the service is so excellent that it almost makes you want to buy things you don't really like.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by nononono
F'ing Macy's is discontinuing all kinds of good lines, particularly in petites, where I get about half my things. And RP's right, the atmosphere in Macy's sucks. It's like a barely upscaled KMart. Garish, like their logo.

Assholes. What really pissed me off is when Nordstrom discontinued pretty much every petite line except for the house brand (Classiques) and the other one that uses nothing but synthetic fabrics. I miss Ralph Lauren.