SOBBING ON FIFTH: Sample Sales This Week

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Sample Sales This Week

(Image via SampleSally.com)

When you're as constantly in need of a shopping score as I am, you get to be quite the stalker of sample sale schedules. Sample sales, the Olympics of shopping. The thrill of the hunt, the adrenaline of pushing people out of your path, the madness of it all. So. Worth. It.

Here are some good ones this week in New York:

Manolo Blahnik started Tuesday and goes until Thursday, 10:30am to 6pm. According to ~~my bible~~ Racked NY , prices go like this: "The lowest you'll pay is $195 (blue dot), with prices ranging up through $295 (orange dot), $395 (green dot), and $495 (red dot)." I want to go to there. - 31 West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

Not so much a sample sale, but an exciting annual sale nonetheless and for a good cause to boot: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Thrift Shop starts Wednesday, August 8th and runs until Sunday, August 12th. Score Bottega Veneta, Gucci and more (people know how to donate at this place) for lower - not crazy lower - prices and the proceeds go to the center. - 1440 Third Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets

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Our Story

We are Sutton and Astor Van Brigsby. We were born and raised on Park Avenue, a mere hop, skip and 30-second ride with our driver, Morton, from Fifth Avenue. Oh, yes, there was a time when our daily shopping trips were what chick-flick montages were made of – sales assistants scurried at our beck and call, we did lots of twirling in front of fitting room mirrors without spilling our glasses of champagne, and doormen helped Morton help us into the car with stacks of hatboxes – which had shopping bags of clothing and shoes inside of them, because we’re not really into hats. But our designer RTW-filled reality came crashing to a traumatizing end when our father went ballistic one day – WHY we do not know – and cut up our credit cards. Apparently, it bothered him that we had spent his secretary’s annual salary in one trip to Bergdorf. He completely cut us off, I mean stone cold. With the exception of health insurance, cell phone bills, cable and electricity, we are COMPLETELY on our own. Left to our own devices to stay as well dressed as before but on a salary that doesn’t even compare to our past allowance. So, I, Astor, took a job in fashion and Sutton took a job in beauty. It is all we know and love, after all, and we figured that way we would have our bases covered with discounts – what else is a girl to do? If you’re like us, trying to keep a closet stocked with the kind of stuff Bill Cunningham will notice you in on a less-than-desirable salary, join us, won’t you? We’ll support each other, we’ll have cry fests over things we can’t have – and we’ll come up with ways to make the number of those things less and less by hunting sample sales, scouring the internet for discounts and even DIYing up our own versions. We WILL get through this together.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Sample Sales This Week

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