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Lindsay Byron's avatar

The text response: “No.” 🤣🤣🤣

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

people think anything they say could ever hurt my feelings - jokes on them I grew up with 3 sisters!

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Laggy's avatar

It’s like prison Gen Pop but for competing females. What a horrible place.

Aritzia looks like it’s just another place for people that look like they need a sandwich.

Good piece regardless. Takes balls to split your inner dialogue wide open like this.

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AB1977's avatar

I don't understand a business model that has you walking away without a purchase. I'm a man, though, so not paraded through this ring of Dante's retail inferno.

That being said, I'm adding "Jessica, that lying bitch" to the growing list of catch phrases for the Sudana Krasniqi merch line. Maybe you print this one on a line of jeans? Sorry, too soon?

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

She looked me in the eyes and said they looked good! More than once! Girl bye.

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AB1977's avatar

Always be closing.

Also, there should be a law that a grown adult should not need to share a mirror with teenagers when trying on clothes. Especially those teenagers who are wearing acid wash jeans on purpose...

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Holly Starley's avatar

And forget to return the sizes that don’t fit. Like an adult. 😆 fantastic.

Holy damn, fitting rooms suck without the communal mirror. Yikes thanks for the warning. . 💕💕💕

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

haha, thank you Holly 🤍

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kiks's avatar

I once walked out into Aritzia communal mirror hell wearing a pair of wide-leg pants made of some sort of viscose shit that I immediately realized showed every lump & bump on my ass and thighs. As I choked back vomit, the salesgirl appeared right on cue: “They look SO GOOD!!!”

I was close to 30 years old by now and as a Canadian, well accustomed to this dance. I just looked at her and said “…They really don’t.”

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Omfg. Who do they think this is helping? Who!

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C.S. Mee's avatar

That’s some good writing

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

I was triggered

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Nicole Lise Feingold's avatar

Brilliant! Equal parts hysterical and painfully relatable. Good luck out there!

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

Thanks Nicole, I’ll need it lol

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maja roglić's avatar

HAHA I HAD THIS EXACT EXPERIENCE LAST WEEK oh my goddddd the absolute worst. i hate when the associates pretend we are best friends

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

IF I WANTED A BEST FRIEND I WOULD HAVE JOINED A SORORITY!

I WANT TO SHOP FOR JEANS IN PEACE!

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maja roglić's avatar

i put on my best Balkan glare when i go in these days

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

I need to channel my mother. She would have none of this.

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Space Egg's avatar

How truly loathsome and customer unfriendly.

Steal the clothes and try them on at home

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Susanne McMillan's avatar

I am NOT a clothes shopper.

On one of my visits back to Germany, many years ago, my mother decided my wardrobe needed an upgrade.

We went to a store with a sales assistant.

Between her and my mother, they found a boatload of clothes totally fetching on me.

Once back home, I wore each piece exactly once.

None were ME.

Never again have I gone shopping where someone talks at me.

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

It rarely, if ever, works. Thank you for reading Susanne.

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BC's avatar

Good article. There r other stores.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Dont forget I SAID THE JEANS LOOK GOOD AND IM RIGHT ❤️❤️❤️

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

And this is why you’re getting a Mother’s Day gift and my sister is not :)

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Jeff K's avatar

I had never heard of Aritzia until today but it sounds like hell.

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Kevin Maher's avatar

Your sister was right. The denim Gods were having a day off.

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Sudana Krasniqi's avatar

lol thanks

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Gina CM's avatar

This reminds me of the open Daffy’s dressing room!!! Remember those mosh pits of torture?! No stalls, just a big ass communal room with many mirrors. As a girl, dragged there with older relatives, i was scared of adolescence because of all the old ladies with knee-knocker titties in the Daffy’s dressing room lol.

They closed maybe a decade ago. Sounds like Aritzia picked up the very ball that they dropped!

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Jasna ✷ Soft Chaos Dispatch's avatar

I had a good laugh at “Tittier.” My best shopping experience at aritzia after having a few drinks. I hope that helps 💗

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