The Loehmann's in Atlanta had communal mirrors, and I was never bothered by other people trying on clothes around me. I'm fine with that. The fitting room attendant was courteous and pleasant and kept her distance unless specifically asked. Loehmann's understood the niceties of the communal mirrors area.

What I'm not fine with is trying to really look at myself and assess, and immediately some sales associate is chirping at me and asking me if everything is okay, and do I want any other sizes, and blahblahblahblahblah. All I want is a moment of quiet to look at what I've tried on, and decide whether this is something that I'm excited about, and whether it will work with what I already have.

That, in a nutshell, is what drives me crazy about Aritzia. You have one foot out of the dressing room, and a sales associate apparates in front of you like freakin' Harry Potter, jabbering a mile a minute about other sizes.

Got a newsflash for ya, Dobby the Elf... there's never another size. I'm willing to wait here awkwardly, half undressed, while you go check, but I already know. There are no other sizes. Size up, size down... there have never been other sizes in anything I've tried on, that fit me. I just want to put all of my clothes back on, and slink on out of this chaos.

There. My mini-rant is complete. Carry on.

LOL Mary Beth!

My favorite local boutique is a favorite partly for this very reason. There are generously sized mirrors in the dressing stalls, but also an even better mirror outside of the stalls. The SAs there are so good, they know to step away and give some time and space, but they’re nearby enough that I can call out if I need a different size or want advice. They’ll check in but not hover. They’ll suggest but not push. And they know my style enough that one of them went to the back to fetch a pair of Mother wide-leg dark-wash jeans that had just come in but not hit the sales floor yet, which she strongly suspected would be great on me (spoiler alert: I bought them). It reminds me of what Nordstrom’s service used to be like.

I haven't notice this before! But like Suz that's probably because I don't shop there on the weekends when it would be busy ... but agree with the sentiment; this is super-annoying - I hope they change it!

I recently shopped in Aritzia for the first time (we don't have one in our town) and was shocked at how young the clientele was - I had no idea it was popular with the twenty-somethings. I got out pretty fast and didn't go near the dressing rooms. Thank goodness.