Urban Outfitters

urban outfitters can be ok but most of the time, its all kind of blah.
they carry well known brands which are totally fine (and a great deal when they have sales) but its the rest of the stuff that are not worth it. quality is bad. sure, its disposable fashion but it is worse than that and charging you a premium price to boot. the winter scarf i bought ended up looking quite sad after barely a month of light wear.
the store is separated in 2 different stores: one for womens and a smaller for mens. service is courteous enough.
i do love their awesome novelty socks though. a pair of mr sparkle and mickey mouse socks, how can one resist?
novelty gifts? yes, worth stopping by
daily wear? i’d look elsewhere unless there’s a sale going on

So I wanted to get my facts straight before reviewing Urban Outfitters since I remember the kerfuffle on the interwebs over their CEO financially supporting Republicans including Rick Santorum a few years back. Urban Outfitters is the parent company for Anthropologie and Free People, so they make sort of cute clothes, and have some history of dubious labour practices, and of selling products that get various groups upset. If you want to read more about the Santorum connection and all of the above Snopes is a good place to start —
All that good crazy corporate America stuff aside, I generally find Urban over priced for what you get, given you’re not supporting a local designer, and the store itself overwhelming with the hordes of forever twenty somethings trying to be next and new. For novelty gifts for the teen in your life it’s a go, and the sales rack has some gems, and they do make a certain cut of jeans that my friend swears are sex magic. This location on St Denis is smaller than the monster on St Catherines, has a separate men’s section, and has a fake hippy smell that gives me a migraine.