The Choosy Beggar

At 12 noon today, the new school and the older school — Spurr and Michael Kors — go on sale at Gilt.com. HERE‘s your invite to the members only site.

Courtesy of The Onion

In need of some highly presentable baggage? We suggest holding off for a week or so until Lambertson Truex — the luxury brand that just filed for bankruptcy — announces plans for its requisite liquidation sales. [Reuters via Timely Demise via Racked]

You’ve had well over a month now to pick up your staple Barbour jackets at over 50% off, but, come Tuesday, the party’s when unsold F/W merch is sent back to Barbour HQ in some English coastal town at the mouth of the River Tyne. (We’re just guessing about that last part.)

Barbour by Peter Elliot – 1047 Madison Ave at 80th – 212-570-2600 – Map

We’re all for artistic license, and we’d hate to be called style Nazis, but there are three little words that have kept men stylistically in line since the days of Beau Brummel: LESS IS MORE.