Through Thursday, 1/28, Rothman’s is taking up to 40% off suits, sportswear, shoes, and outerwear. We’re talking $1,500-$1,800 Canali suits down to $1,000; Theory suits down from $900 to $500; Calvin Klein and DKNY suits down from $500 to $300; …
Saturday through Wednesday, 1/23-1/27, get to Soiffer Haskin showroom for its annual Cole Haan sample sale. Expect 75% off shoes. Not Cole Haan brand clothes. Not Cole Rood & Haan. Cole Haan brand shoes.
Cole Haan sample sale – Soiffer Haskin – 317 W 33rd between 8th & 9th – 9am-6:30pm daily – Map
Saturday through the end of the month, 1/23-1/31, get to the Unis sample sale for 50% off F/W ’09, along with what a rep tells us will be “a ton of items for men and women ranging between $10 and $200.” He added: “We know that people were a little upset about last seasons sample sale but we have marked the prices down to sell!!“
Unis – 226 Elizabeth St nr Prince – 212-431-5533 – 11am-7pm daily expect 12pm-7pm on Sunday – Map
Saturday, 1/23, is officially your last chance to pick up F/W ’09 sale items at Barneys and Barneys Co-Op’s around town. Racked recently found tons of quality menswear at the Co-Op’s 18th Street locale. We’re talking up to 75% off retail. Next stop for this stuff is Barneys Warehouse sale, where, as insiders will tell you, prices are actually bumped back up.
Barneys – 660 Madison Ave at 61st – 212-826-8900 – Map
Co-Op – 2151 Broadway
between 75th & 76th – 646-335-0978 – Map
Co-Op – 236 West 18th St between 7th & 8th – 212-593-7800 – Map
Having a little fun with “heritage-heads” — i.e., guys who fetishize and sentimentalize classic American workwear — new New York Times “Critical Shopper” Jon Caramanica visits Dave’s New York, a modest Modells-esque Sixth Avenue shop that has serviced the city’s blue-collar workers for nearly half a century.
“Never before in men’s style has looking rugged been such an expensive proposition: art directors and architecture students jaunt around the city in jackets from Woolrich Woolen Mills or Pendleton Meets Opening Ceremony and skinny black jeans scrunched up at the bottom over bulky boots from the Nom de Guerre-Red Wing collaboration,” Caramanica writes.
“But what of the thousands more struggling somewhat further down the economic ladder?” Caramanica asks — to which I’d add those of us unwilling to spend $500 for a flannel. “For them, there’s Dave’s…” — to which I’d add sales, vintage shops, eBay, StyleForum, …
Bigger picture, Fashionista is suggesting that “Americana” — a term Dave’s itself uses to describe its gear — has peaked as a trend. ACL‘s Michael Williams, arguably the movement’s official spokesman, agrees. “I think Americana is a trend most likely at its peak or near the height of its popularity,” he told the blog. “But, while the bubble may soon burst and many will go back to their drop-crotch Rick Owens, it is my feeling that a substantial appreciation for Americana will persist.”
When that time comes, I’ll be mourning the loss of Americana’s chic status because it is so easy to acquire — relative to, say, Russian Oligarch-chic — and, as I’ve said before, if guys are overpaying for anything, it might as well be truly classic gear that’s built to last a really long time.
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