The Choosy Beggar

Through Wednesday, get to Diesel Headquarters for $30 denim, $60 leather, $10 tees, and $5 accessories. Cash only, fellas.

**Update: Just stopped by the sale. Not worth the effort. We’ll posts a few picks later, but we can assure that all you’ll find are the label’s completely over-designed dregs.**

If you’re not in the hood, you can still find up to 70% off F/W ’08 online.

Diesel HQ – 220 W 19th St between 7th & 8th – 7th fl – 10am-5pm daily – 646-613-8457 – Map

Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls

At 12 noon, get to Gilt.com for serious markdowns on some very cool frames from the optical specialists at Morgenthal Frederics. HERE‘s your invite to the members-only site.

Yes, layaway — the seemingly antiquated business of reserving a product by paying it off in installments — is apparently making a comeback. Along with “boychick” and “décontracté,” it even made T Magazine’s Men’s Spring Fashion issue as a “word of the season.”

Here’s another word: Bollocks — of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning “testicles,” but often used figuratively as a noun to mean “nonsense.” That’s what we call leaving your hard-earned cash — appreciating at exactly ZERO percent — with some retailer (which might not even exist two months from now) — in the hopes that you’ll some day walk away with some thing that you most likely didn’t need in the first place.

Every season, it’s entirely acceptable to splurge ever so slightly on one key piece that’s going to lend credibility to the rest of your wardrobe, and help set it off. All the better when that piece is half-off, from Woolrich Woolen Mills, and guaranteed to become a foul-weather standby for years to come. And, for about $400, this field coat has particular relevance during a season dedicated to Americana, earnest preppyism, and egalitarian values. Anyway, the coat’s just one among countless other items on sale right now at etailer Context.