Down on Bond Street, everyone’s favorite Best New American Menswear Designer, Billy Reid, is now taking 75% off select S/S ’10. Yep, that’s the final markdown before remaining stock is packed up and shipped off to God knows where early next week. For all you non-New Yorkers, final similar deals online.
Billy Reid – 54 Bond St Bowery & Lafayette – 12pm-9pm daily – 212-598-9355 – Map
Are vintage shops doomed? Likely within city limits, reports Crain’s New York. The obvious culprits? The recession, soaring rents, and continued rise of vintage ecommerce. “The prices on Etsy kill me,” says Eva Weiss, one of many NYC business owners recently forced to pack it in. According to the business journal, Etsy now carries about 750,000 vintage pieces, which represents more than 12% of the site’s total stock. Meanwhile, eBay’s vintage apparel and accessories listings now number close to 460,000. As Crain’s notes, some brick & mortar operations are holding their own by expanding online — a strategy we hope our favorite haunts will follow in lieu of other more brilliant survival strategies.
Online or street level, what vintage proprietors do you recommend?
Earlier this year, GQ named the 25 top vintage destinations in America. The hometown winners included:
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About the Groupe Seize sur Vingt Sample Sale going through next Sunday, 8/8. You’ll be happy to know that S.s.V. didn’t host a private pre-sale event for “friends & family” to pick all the cherries. As a rep told us, however, this is the smallest sale they’ve ever hosted. Virtually no suits; most of the jackets are Troglodyte Homunculus ($200); and there are four — count ’em, four — pairs of shoes available. Lots of dress shirts, however, and likely the finest dress shirts you’ll ever have the privilege to manhandle.
Don’t forget! Drop “The Beggar” name at checkout for 20% off any and all full-price stock.
Groupe Seize sur Vingt Sample Sale – Groupe 16sur20 – 78 Greene St Spring & Broome – 212-625-1620 – Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 12pm-6pm – Map
today’s poll was inspired by this Ivy Style post
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