My First Job Was at Anthropologie—Here's What I'm Buying There as a 30-Year-Old

Having a summer mall job was a rite of passage for anyone who came of age in the early 2000s—bonus points if it was at a millennial-loved store like Anthropologie, which was the location of my very first job in high school. (I followed it up with a job at yet another classic millennial obsession, Bath & Body Works, but I digress.) The long days on my feet gave me so much respect for retail workers, and to this day, I can't look at a rack of clothes without being reminded of how we were supposed to organize the hangers with a finger's width between them.
It's been more than a decade since my first job, and Anthropologie has certainly grown up right along with us now 30-somethings. The assortment includes a much more varied mix of styles than it used to, including trendy, timeless, glitzy, minimalist, sexy, practical, and more. Below, I'm rounding up the things I'd buy from Anthropologie right this second.
Baggy trousers are arguably the most popular trend right now, with Meghan Markle being their most recent fan.
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Erin got her start as a Who What Wear intern in 2011—back when the site only published a single story per day. (We have since increased that number twentyfold.) She graduated magna cum laude from USC and lives in Los Angeles. In college, she also interned at Refinery29, where she was promoted to editorial assistant and then assistant editor. After nearly three years at R29, she came back to WWW in 2015, where she is now the Associate Director of Fashion News. From the Oscars to the Met Gala, she leads the site's entire red carpet coverage strategy. She specializes in celebrity and fashion news but also enjoys writing travel features and runway reports. She frequently contributes to WWW's social accounts and has a sizable following on her personal TikTok.
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