Back in 2010, I was sooo excited for Anthropologie to come to town. I was enchanted by Anthropologie's clothes and fragrance lines when I visited the incomparable San Francisco location in Union Square.
Little did I know, I would be playing this game on Regretsy a few months later: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/01/31/etsy-or-anthropologie/
It is kind of irritating when something is factory made to look vintage or handmade. I find the prices are very hit or miss for this kind of stuff at Anthro, and if I am after an item that looks like I could find a DIY on pinterest, or the same thing on Etsy, I will usually just go for that route instead of purchasing from this store.
I do like picking up perfumes and little accessories there, though. They carry some lines of perfume which have confirmed with me are cruelty free. I also almost always find a cute piece of clothing in the sales rack in the back, even amongst all the weird abstract uglies and the usually swarm of other savvy ladies who scour the sales wrack-because no one wants to pay 300 for a boxy striped sweater. We wait until it is on sale.