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Sunshinegirl · Kate Spade

Anthro top review

smash · Dooney & Bourke

oh no - i'm so sorry to hear that the top didn't work out!

i have to say i am relieved to hear that you have the same problem as i do with anthro - i love everything in the catalog and online but then when i go see it in the store and try it on i end up getting frustrated and angry because *every* top (besides the super-tight knit tops) or jacket i have tried on that they sell has been really boxy on me. and i understand - i'm little on the top - but so are the models/manequins they use to display their clothes! clearly they are pinning and clipping stuff to remove the boxyness. it is total misrepresentation and it makes me so mad!

anyway, didn't mean to turn this into a personal rant, but i wanted to let you know that i'm with you!

Kincali · Dooney & Bourke

I alway hate ordering from the site. I normally make a wish list of what I think I like, then go to the store to try them on. 75% of the items I'm disappointed in when I see them in the store. It kinda goes both ways though for me. Things I think I would never like on the website I love in the store

Cortney1982 · Chanel

Know what you mean! I saw this on the Old Navy website and thought how adorable the bow was. I go to the store and they don't have bows on them. They are all like the black one. It is impossible to make a bow like that since the ties aren't long enough.

member · Hermes

Bummer! I was hoping you would love that top, because I thought it was so cute and wanted it for myself. I agree though, I try to always go to the store to try things on, because I often find that something I find on the website, I don't like once I try on in the store and vice versa.

NCshopper · Hermes

I totally agree with you all too about Anthro. Sucks too cuz the closest store is 3 hours from here. But I'm like fairlight--I'll make a list first and see how things are in the store, as much as possible. Some stuff is disappointing, but I always find stuff that I didn't think would be cute based on the picture from the site. And the sale section!!! Oh, that's a dangerous place to be.

dc · Dooney & Bourke

Their sizing is weird. I have to get tiny sizes there, and they carry all different designers. I have this in an XS and it is big! (But I just wrap the ties around my waist twice, which looks cool, and tie it in front to accentuate the waist).

I just got this top in XS - I do love it, but it seems to expect one's boobs to be about 2 inches higher up - the seam hits me on the boob instead of beneath it and I have to keep pulling it down (and then I am showing tons of cleavage). This is the same in both the S and XS, but the S was just too roomy in the waist/too much fabric so I got the XS. So the seam thing doesn't seem to have anything to do with size, just seems made for oddly highly-placed boobs (mine really could not be perkier post-surg., either!)

I love their handbags. I got one recently on sale for $44! Always wait for the sales at Anthro - like someone said before, it's dangerous!

relrel · Marc Jacobs

dc: how was the material on that green shirt? ive been looking at that shirt for months now and am willing to risk the wierd boob seam if the material is nice.

thanks!

dc · Dooney & Bourke

relrel wrote:

dc: how was the material on that green shirt? ive been looking at that shirt for months now and am willing to risk the wierd boob seam if the material is nice.
thanks!

relrel,

The material is very thin and soft. I like it, but it does seem to stretch out a lot after each wearing. I just carefully wash it.

I am wondering if the boob seam issue has to do with my square shoulders. They might pull it up more, you know? I have this issue with another surplice top I have.

I think it's worth buying - I actually went through the trouble of buying the small in the store, finding it too big, ordering the XS online and marching the S back to the store, and I consider it all worth it. Oh - the colors are less bright than they look in the pic. The purple is burgundier/browner and the green more army. It's a good casual "going out" top, to go see a band or whatever. I wear it with brown seychelles suede wedges, dark jeans, and a burgundy bag.

eta: Sorry for the thread hijack!

-- Edited by dc at 21:14, 2006-02-21

luckylily · Gucci

What a bummer. I really like that top.

I love Anthro, but I only buy stuff online if I've already tried it on in the store. Their shipping is too expensive and the return policy is a pain, IMO, so I don't like to take the chance.

JoceyBaby23 · Gucci

I haven't had good luck there in a while. I have been using their website to re-create my own looks with stuff from the gap and other random stores.

I just can't justify the prices and the quality is so speratic.

NCshopper · Hermes

luckylily wrote:

Their shipping is too expensive and the return policy is a pain, IMO, so I don't like to take the chance.

Agreed! I always forget how expensive their shipping is and their return policy is awful!!! When I recently returned a shirt, I had to wait FOUR FRIGGIN' WEEKS to have it credited to my account. And I never got an email or anything from them so after a week I had to call to make sure that I was going to get refunded.

Yet, I continue to order from them.