(To avoid confusion between the overall company, Urban Outfitters, Inc., and Urban Outfitters the brand, I’ll use “URBN” to mean the company - URBN being its stock-ticker symbol and also the four giant black letters blazoned on the side of its recently completed distribution center for online orders that sprawls across 1.1 million square feet in the town of Gap, in Pennsylvania Dutch country.) The brand known as Anthropologie offers a mix of fashion and housewares to adventurous women ages 28 to 45.
There’s the eponymous Urban Outfitters, which markets clothes and vinyl and rebellion to men and women ages 18 to 28. The Navy Yard has been transformed by one of Philadelphia’s largest and most iconic companies, Urban Outfitters, Inc., the retailer that started here in 1970 with a single store and is now a $3.4 billion global empire, a family of lifestyle brands that ring the world.
Dogs snooze on pillows beneath the desks of women - more women than men now.Ī dog lounges next to a Free People employee | Photograph by Christopher Leaman A stone Buddha keeps watch over the fish. But the pits where crews once bent steam pipes have been converted to koi ponds. The old buildings still stand today, and there are still thousands of workers inside. Wrote one supervisor in 1943, “The dirt blackens their faces and eats into their pores the fumes choke their throats and smart their eyes, but the girls can take it and they do.” Sixteen percent of the employees were women, including hundreds of “girl welders” who climbed the towering scaffolds of the skeletal ships and manipulated steel with hacksaws and torches.
Navy, toiling in a waterfront cluster of hot, noisy, cavernous brick buildings, some of which were painted dull gray and shielded to prevent leaking light from revealing their location to enemy bombers. At the yard’s peak during the Second World War, nearly 60,000 craftspeople and laborers jammed together each day to make cruisers, destroyers, battleships and aircraft carriers for the U.S. Even after construction crews filled the back channel to glue the dot to the mainland, the Navy Yard remained an island in spirit and function, a city unto itself. Organized with steep discounts on coveted street wear.The main corridor in Building 18, Anthropologie’s headquarters | Photograph by Christopher LeamanĪmerica’s original naval shipyard is in Philadelphia, at the southern tip of the city, where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware - 900 acres that were once a literal island, a teardrop of land floating at the bottom of the city like a dot on an exclamation point. This is a Urban Clothing Warehouse Outlet. They are following all Covid-19 parameters, so wear your mask. Open 4-10 days a month, they announce on their Instagram page when they will open. But the word is out and die hard urban brands skate fans line up to shop here. Hidden at the back of a business park, there are no street signs for this warehouse, just a small door with a sign that says Warehouse #2. A Primitive Jacket was $40 instead of $89. Broken Promises Tees were $15 instead of $25-$32. Brixton jean jacket was $30 instead of $89.
Crooks N Castles zip up hoodie was $40 instead of $80-90. Highlights include mens swim trunks that retailed at $48 for $10. Family run, everyone here was friendly & happy to be helpful. Many items are hung on hangers or you have to ask for styles on the walls but they also have lots of organized, labeled bins you can dig through. Hoodie sweat shirts, sweat pants, joggers, shorts $25-$35 Tees, tank tops, hats, beanies, belts, underwear, $10įanny packs, sling bags, slides/ sandals $20 Packed with tees, tops, sweats, hoodies, jackets and shirts for guys and gals, you’ll save 40-80% here. Only open 4-10 days a month, they announce their openings on their Instagram page. Warehouse #2 liquidates cutting edge street / skate / urban fashion brands like adidas, Brickline, Brixton, Broken Promises, Girl, Huf, Daimond, Chocolate, American Baller, No Hours, Champion, Crooks & Castles, Grizzley, Grand Derby, Honey, Nike, Primitive, Trasher, Carrots, Affliction and more. I was quickly greeted and given a basic run down on how this Urban Skate Clothing Warehouse Outlet worked. My enthusiasm must have shown as I walked into Warehouse #2 in Santa Clarita. Now, having been cooped up for months, it was positively awesome! Getting out discovering and researching a new Urban Clothing Warehouse Outlet is always delight.