  Counterpoint: Do Buy a Skirt on Sale With all due respect, Panda, your first mistake was shopping for clothing at Anthropologie. Sure, they are a great place to find a $50 knick-knack, but let's be realistic about their clothes. I think you said it all with your reference to a $90 piece of cotton with straps. Do I really need to point out that this item was probably made in a Taiwanese sweatshop from scraps that the Urban Outfitters people didn't want, at a cost of $0.13? Give me the right sales price to justify this - 50% off? 75? Sorry. While I feel for you and your frustration, I think you're a smarter shopper than that. You can do better. I think you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as it were. One cannot stop purchasing skirts on sale simply because her friend bought a piece-of-crap burlap sack at Anthropologie. Sorry, friend. 
