The Choosy Beggar

For his latest photo essay, The Selby features famed tailor/businessman Martin Greenfield, whose Bushwick-based plant engineers and produces over 40,000 suits a year, including those for Rag & Bone, Brooks Brothers, and other labels. Beautiful stuff. Greenfield gets plenty of media attention, and rightly so. Check out a recent story in the Times here, accompanying photos, and a New Yorker profile published in back ’94 (sub. required). [The Selby via Racked]

Martin Greenfield Clothiers – 239 Varet St, Brooklyn – 718-497-5480 – Map

Gilt Man is giving the next 150 guys who sign up here $10 towards their first purchase… which is pretty insignificant compared to all the money the private sale site saves you over time. Overnight, these guys have totally revolutionized high-end deal shopping. Plain and simple. You can’t not be a member.

Thursday, 12/17, from 6pm-8pm, Assembly will be taking 50% off all designer labels, including Assembly (pictured), 0044, Chronicles of Never, ***Fjällräven***, Hope, Rachel Comey, … Then, from 8pm-10am, it’s drinks and music by Storms. And, if you can’t make it Thursday, find up to 40% off Assembly’s full slate of labels here.

Assembly – 174 Ludlow St between Houston & Stanton – 212-253-5393 – Map

For the next week or so, our friends at the watch blog Hodinkee.com will show you how to secure a Louis Erand watch for 70% off (50% off existing markdowns of 20%). We’re talkin’ between $250-$1,000 for some serious Swiss engineering. Very nice. [Hondinkee]

It just got serious over at venerated etailer Context.com, where you’ll now find 30% off some amazing products from A.P.C., Apolis Activism, Band of Outsiders, Canada Goose, Dunderdon, Engineered Garments, Gitman Bros. Vintage, Kicking Mule Workshop, Nom de Guerre, Nudie, Post O’Alls, Wings + Horns, and Woolrich Woolen Mills. Through the Holidays and New Year, prices will continue to drop, but so will available stock and sizes. Also of note, arguably the best deals on the site don’t involve any markdowns. We’re talking, of course, about Pendleton’s Vintage American Wool shirts — Love this one.