I went. I spent. I enjoyed myself there. I spent too much money on jeans for Teen Spirit and shirts for me. I also bought a great pair of red sunglasses for $18.
UO is a great shop for teenage boys. It’s also a great shop for teenage girls: skinny jeans, print dresses, t-shirts, leggings, fun jewelry.
Surprisingly, I was able to find three shirts that really fit me and that I really like (I may wear one to the Sidecar cocktail party so you can see). Two of the shirts could be dresses with leggings. They’re long (see the picture below though that’s not the pattern I got).
The new Brooklyn UO is in a beautiful space. I haven’t been paying attention so what was that space before? It’s very strange to be shopping in that kind of Manhattan-y shop on Atlantic Avenue right next door to a mid-eastern grocery, a barber, and other very Atlantic Avenue establishments.
Earlier I was on Court Street at the American Apparel, which I find very generic, somewhat sleezy, and quite overpriced. Which isn’t to say that I wasn’t able to find something to buy there. Just saying.
I welcome Urban Outfitters because they’ve got those skinny jeans Teen Spirit likes and it’s a very nice, sunny, beautifully renovated old space.
“Wow, my mother never shopped for me when I was a teenager,” the sales associate in the men’s department told me. I felt kind of funny about it. But Teen Spirit needed jeans.
I technically might be out of the UO demographic, but I still shop there frequently. They’re my favorite source of socks and hoodies. I welcome their store on Atlantic, but I wonder if the location might be just one block off the foot traffic path.
the sales associate just wishes he had a wonderful mom like you who would know what he liked and buy it for him. it’s called having a good relationship. :)