Good Choice!

Although at $170 per skirt you'd also be a broke women.

I also walk by Anthropologie every day and admire their windows, but ever since I learned of their wretched politics, I would not allow myself to step inside!

Skirts designed to look great on women with no hips.

I agree that their patterns are great but the quality of their work isn't. I have had and know others that have had seams fall apart after one wear.

from Philly Weekly:

But the difference between stage-crafted storefront image and corporate reality doesn't end there. It extends all the way to the top, to the man who built the company from scratch--Richard Hayne, Urban Outfitters' president and founder.

While the typical Urban Outfitters shopper is likely to be liberal-minded--as is the province and privilege of youth--the fiftysomething Hayne is mom-and-apple-pie conservative. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Paleolithic right-wing Republican Sen. Rick Santorum and his Political Action Committee over the years.

Hayne, who would prefer this fact not appear in this story, did not always tilt hard to the right. In fact, he and the retail concern he founded came of age in the heady, longhaired lefty crucible of the '60s. Back then he was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration that perpetrated it and the big business military-industrial complex that financed it.

Interesting about Hayne, particularly since he wanted it hushed, but ironically Urban Outfitters sells Obama "Progress" tees:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/williammorris/2557343870/

I like their way to design the store (in Cleveland, isn't it different from other stores?) inside too and always make some pictures ;-)

As soon as I opened my inbox and read today's Daily Heller, I passed the "summer shout out" along to my wife, who creates the window and interior displays for Anthropologie in Chicago. It made her day!

Geese or fighter jets?

Thanks for your thoughts re: window displays at Anthropologie... there's one in our little town (Birmingham, MI), and I'd never really taken the time to look at the window displays very closely. I appreciate your insight... I'll walk a bit slower the next time I'm uptown. I'll take inspiration anywhere I can! Thanks again, Kathy