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Urban Outfitters Effect

1) When an item or product that once was or can/could be found for a nominal/low/affordable price. Is unreasonably marked up to sell it as "cool", "indie" or "hip".

2) The commercialization of a "retro", underground, or "ghetto" style, product, clothing for capital gain.

3) Things that used to be stupid, unpopular, childish, uncool, dorky, lame, underground or otherwise socially awkward that are now marketed as mainstream hipster, "cool" or indie- usually to the teenage audience (in a socially positive light).
a) paying $88 for a jacket that looks like you picked it up at the Salvation Army for $5, just so you can be cool.
i.e.
Dude 1- Check out this sick new jacket I got.
Dude 2- Cool man, yea, I was at Salvation Army last week, I was thinking about getting that one.
Dude 1- Nah man, just got back from Urban!
Dude 2- oooooo.... you know they had like that same jacket at Salvo's for like $7 bucks right?
Dude 1- But this one's from Urban Outfitters.
Dude 2- Damn son, you just got fucked by the Urban Outfitters Effect.

b) Selling the Everyone loves a... or image of Little Miss Sunshine, a Technics turntable or "90s" looking tiger on a T-Shirt for $28

Half Italian Female- Like OMFG! They're so right everyone DOES love a little Italian girl!
Male- No.

c) This Urban Outfitters Effect thins is bullshit, they expect me to shell out $28 for a shitty, warn look Lucky Charms shirt? Dude, I saw that same shirt at Wal-Mart for $5.99.
by dex110 February 19, 2008
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Urban Outfitters

A fashionable store with (i'll admit) slightly over-priced clothing. But, hey if somone has the money to buy a certain pair of jeans or a couple shirts they like, then they should be able to buy them without being ridiculed like some of you low-lifes here who love to lable people into certain groups. I like going to Urban Outfitters because it offers clothing and styles not seen at 'all-american' clothing stores such as American eagle or Abercrombie and Fitch. (Nothing wrong with those stores btw, they're just going for a different look.) Urban Outfitters also has clothing that is affordable.
Hey i went to Urban Outfitters to get a unique belt and nice looking jacket!
by Alex235235 June 20, 2007
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outside

Outside is a place where there's insects and the sun which burns you awfully bad, and there's also grass and trees and butteflys..all poisonous to you, its a horrible, horrible horrible , vile place that you never want to go to
Billy: Wanna go outside Theo?

Theo: NO! Don't make me go outside, you can't make me not even at gunpoint, for I should wish my own life away on a whim rather than
venture to the outside.

Billy: jeez, just asking..
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