Urban Outfitters "Washed Pink Ruffle Duvet Set" — UK Double, Discontinued
Urban Outfitters' own name for this is the Washed Pink Ruffle Duvet Set, style number 0541914390039, from their UO Home line. It is sold out and no longer available from them, which is why you are reading this rather than buying it new.
The word "washed" is doing real work in that name. This isn't a crisp percale — it is a cotton that has been washed to soften it, so the surface has a gently crumpled, lived-in quality and a matte, dry handle rather than a sheen. There is a subtle self-coloured texture running through the weave as well, which you only really see up close and which is what stops the plain pink from looking flat.
The colour is a soft washed pink — dusty rather than bright, closer to blush than to candy.
Every edge is finished with a densely gathered ruffle: the duvet cover on all sides, and both pillowcases to match. It is a proper generous frill rather than a narrow flange, which is the whole point of the design.
This is a UK DOUBLE. It is not a king.
Urban Outfitters' own size chart for this set runs:
The label also gives the dimensions in inches as 79" × 79", which is the same measurement — a square European-style duvet rather than the rectangular American kind. Pillowcases are 50cm × 76cm, which is standard UK housewife size.
I am setting this out at length because it is the one thing that would genuinely spoil the purchase, and I would rather over-explain it than have it arrive on the wrong bed.
The tote is a nice thing in its own right and it is included — it also means the set travels to you neatly rather than stuffed in a mailing bag.
Urban Outfitters' stated dimensions are above. These are my own, taken flat, since cotton bedding shrinks a little in the wash and I would rather you had the real figures:
100% cotton throughout, per the sewn label. Made in India. Machine wash cold. Urban Outfitters style number 0541914390039, photographed on the label along with the UO Home mark. Please buy on that basis.
Unused. The set has never been on a bed — it is exactly as supplied, folded in its original Urban Outfitters cotton tote. There are no tags, so I am listing it as new without tags rather than new with.
All three pieces are present and accounted for. The ruffles are full and evenly gathered with no crushing, the overlocking around the frills is sound with no loose or pulled threads, and all seams are intact. The tote is clean and undamaged.
Sold as seen — please study all photographs, which form part of the description.
Machine wash cold with similar colours, as the label says. Wash it on its own the first couple of times — pink cotton gives up a little dye at first, and you do not want that finding your white sheets.
Two things specific to this set, both about the ruffles and the washed finish:
Do not iron it flat. The softly crumpled surface is the whole character of a washed cotton, and pressing it out gives you an ordinary pink duvet cover instead. If you want it neater, tumble it on low for ten minutes and shake it out while it is still slightly warm — that relaxes the creases without killing the texture.
Shake the ruffles out while damp and let them dry loose rather than folded over themselves. A frill that dries crushed stays crushed until the next wash, and on a set like this the ruffles are what you are paying for.