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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income of the Operating Partnership (Tables) (Tanger Properties Limited Partnership [Member]) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Tanger Properties Limited Partnership [Member] |
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items] |
Schedule of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) | The following table summarizes the changes in accumulated balances of other comprehensive income for the three months ended March 31, 2013 (in thousands):
|  | Gain on cash flow hedges (1) |  | Foreign currency items |  | Total
Balance, December 31, 2012 |  | $ | 1,112 |  |  | $ | (5 | ) |  | $ | 1,107 |
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications |  | — |  |  | 68 |  |  | 68 |
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income |  | (90 | ) |  | — |  |  | (90 | )
Net increase (decrease) in other comprehensive income |  | (90 | ) |  | 68 |  |  | (22 | )
Balance, March 31, 2013 |  | $ | 1,022 |  |  | $ | 63 |  |  | $ | 1,085 |
(1) | Represents remaining amount of gain recorded to other comprehensive income in 2005 as a result of the settlement of a US Treasury index rate lock agreement. This agreement was unwound in the fourth quarter of 2005. The gain was recorded in other comprehensive income and is being amortized into earnings through interest expense using the effective interest method over a 10 year period that coincides with the interest payments associated with the 6.15% senior unsecured notes due in 2015.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the components of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 14A -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=20435746&loc=SL7669686-108580 + Details
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