I love my Anthro Society Picnic fat sack skirt!

Hello out there! I love, love, love the Picnic Society Skirt. I can see the “Picnic” in it, but I haven’t figured out whose “Society” it is yet. The size 2’s of the world? Generation Z with $11,000 in AnthroDebt?

Oh, who cares. Let’s talk about what’s really important. This skirt is adorable; it’s made of bright and vibrant faux vintage style hankies in reds and blues and flowers. It is everything a flirty and fun Anthro skirt should be: it has style; it has color; it has that unique vintagey feel that Anthro has, and it is really not that flattering. Cutest skirt ever, and I look like a fat sack in it. To be more accurate, I look like a really cute fat sack, but the elastic waist is an oopsy daisy. (See below for definitions,)


Have you ever noticed that while Anthro has the cutest clothes, all too often they are not that flattering.

Don't make me prove it. Because I can.

Puttin' the UGH in ugly. The mini-maxi caftan.

Mrs. Roper, your new Anthro catalogue is here!. Thanks Chrissy!

Yep, in the bewildering decline of AnthroTaste, they have now sunk to a new low: the mini-maxi caftan. It's a maxi; it's a mini' it's a caftan all rolled into one. And, it is not just ugly girls, it is expensive! Each one clocks in at $310. Yikes.

Poor things aren't even named, and there is minimal AnthroBlather about them and not one review. Why no reviews? They are only available online!! Crazy man. The mini-maxi, which sounds like a serious feminine product, is not generally a lock for the fashion forward unless AnthroLand is attempting a fashion foray into a line called The Emperor Has No Clothes.

This drapey, deep-v dress is cut from a vintage pattern and crafted from vintage material; it's a limited edition find for true retrophiles. An Anthropologie exclusive from SOR Select by Some Odd Rubies.

Now, I looove vintage as much as anyone (anyone who loves vintage). It is one of the reasons I was drawn to Anthropologie in the first place, vintage inspirations with a quirky quaintness. But Mrs. Ropers wardrobe(that's a Three's Company reference for the young and/or clueless) is generally not desirable vintage for, no not retrophiles, vinties. Get the cutsie little terms right, please!

If you are going to retrophit and steal from different eras, then let's go back to the oldies and goodies. But, that sounds like fodder for another post. Here is the visual evidence of Anthro run amuck.