The Rachel Comey Sample Sale Returns To New York! BE PREPARED!

Practice your pushups so you're in proper 'bow-throwing shape, because the Rachel Comey sample sale is returning to New York. Go with God!

WHEN: Thursday, June 28, 11 - 8 and Friday June 29, 11- 6

WHERE: St. Patrick's Youth Center Gymnasium

268 Mulberry Street

NY NY 10012

American Apparel New York Sample Sale

American Apparel's New York City sample sale is ON. So stock up on basic tees, lace croptops, copper lamé underwear or hoodies for your baby or dog. I gotta say, I'm way into the fact that this sample sale is several days long, as opposed to the usual sample sale, which is usually approximately the duration of one lunch break.

766 Avenue of the Americas/ 6 Ave between 25th and 26th
Friday, Dec. 16 - Friday Dec. 23, 9am to 9pm
Saturday, Dec. 24, 9am to 6pm
Monday, Dec. 26 & Tuesday, Dec. 27, 9am to 9pm

Feel free to RSVP on Facebook.

Bing Bang Sample Sale: New York, Monday 12/19 - Wednesday 12/21

Guys, file under: TOTALLY UNMISSABLE!
Bing Bang's New York City sample sale starts Monday, Dec. 19 - Wednesday, Dec. 21
12 - 8pm

153 Lafayette 4th floor Between Howard and Grand

Can't make it to the Bing Bang sample sale? Shop Bing Bang with promo code xmas20 for 20% off, through Sunday, Dec. 18.

$68, Bing Bang

$85, Bing Bang

If you should go and see either of these bracelets, you should feel more than emboldened to pick one up for me! Kay? Excellent!

Gryson / Olivia Harris New York Sample Sale: YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!

WATCH yourself. There's a Gryson/ Olivia Harris sample sale, and that's a good thing and a potential financial pitfall as well. Her handbags are LEGIT. (Background: Gryson is designer Joy Gryson's line, and Olivia Harris is named after her daughter. It's her edgier line, which is probably why I EFFING LOVE IT!)

I bought my Olivia Harris black Patch tote at Bloomingdale's last year, and it's one of the soundest investments I've made since I started my effing 401K. I've barely looked at enough bag since. Okay, lie, but it's such a perfect everyday bag -- roomy, well-made, and gorgeous -- that I've barely been tempted by other bags. I call it my motorcycle bag, since it's basically a motorcycle jacket that morphed into a bag.

($545, Olivia Harris, Shopoliviaharris.com)

WHEN: 
Wednesday, June 22  +  Thursday, June 23
11 am - 6pm

WHERE:
180 Varick Street
Suite 916

Welcome To New York City, Dr. Martens!

 

New York City just got a little '90s-er, because Dr. Martens, which just turned 50 years young (really, he looks AMAZING for 50) FINALLY opened a Doc shop in Soho. It's not only the first in New York, but it's the first on the East Coast. Can you even? I was invited to check out the store the other week, and let me tell you, 1992 me was FREAKING OUT. And so was 2010 me.

The brand-new Dr. Martens shop is cozy and inviting and smartly adorned in the signature black and yellow of the very first pair of Docs I ever owned 18 years ago (shudder) and wore to a Violent Femmes show PRAYING they'd get all scuffed up and even-cooler looking.


Check out some of my favorite Dr. Martens from the Spring/ Summer 2011 collection and some photos I snapped of my favorite Docs. The animal print Docs are musts, and the patent leather teal floral embossed Darcies need to find their way into my closet IMMEDIATELY.

($130, DMUSAStore.com)

Dr. Martens New York

148 Spring Street
10012  

Shen Opens On Court Street: Brooklyn Gets More Beautiful

Beautiful news for Brooklyn! Shen, a new beauty boutique, just opened on Court Street, in the former Ola Baby space. Now no disrespect to the hardworking, always-shlepping (strollers, grocery bags, babies) moms of Brooklyn, but we needed another kids and baby store like Manhattan needs another Starbucks: to say we needed a cosmetics shop is a pretty little understatement.

I stopped by today and learned that Shen is owned by a former Vogue staffer and a former beauty editor, and clearly they know what they're doing, because the bright, airy, welcoming shop stocks hard-to-find beauty products like Melange solid perfumes, Lipstick Queen, Roullier White's Mrs. White's products (Mrs White's Classic Cold Cream is on my must-try list), Becca Cosmetics, Kate Logan skincare, and Lafco Candles.

Shen also has a cute little kid-beauty section in the back, and they'll soon have makeup applications.

Follow Shen on Twitter at @ShenBeauty, and, most importantly, welcome Shen to Brooklyn!

I ALMOST Bought These Serfontaine Jeans (And Still Might)

I stopped by the perfectly lovely Kaight boutique in the Lower East Side. It's an eco-friendly boutique, but I'd call it more eco-forward, since it's got really cute stuff that isn't all hemp-y/ Hare Krishna looking, you know? Like eco-friendly stuff -- Melissa troupe + Alexander Herchoivch Oxford wedges and the like -- that doesn't look like it was stitched together from corn husks found on the ground at a farmer's market. (Look, I get HIGH off of recycling and energy efficient light bulbs and reusing stuff. I have ABSOLUTELY nothing against preserving the planet. I just don't wanna dress like it.)

Anyway, the shop is sweet, as are the employees, and I fell in love with a great pair of Serfontaine jeans.

($152, Serfontaine, CoutureCandy.com)

They were. SO. EFFING. COMFORTABLE. It was like sitting in a perfectly worn catcher's mitt made of denim. In a good way. They felt absolutely custom-made for my ass and mine alone. And I LOVED the slightly dusty, semi-'70s medium rinse. And they were soft as a kitten's ear. I rolled them down since I'm 5'2" and certainly can't do the denim capri look without look like a dwarf (side note: I'm NOT into the denim capri look at all anyway). Remarkably, I left without buying them, only because I wasn't in love with the cut of the ankle, which was a little too wide.

Kaight had them on sale for $132. Looks like Kaight doesn't offer Serfontaine online, but if you're into Serfontaine jeans -- and you should be! -- CoutureCandy.com has a ton.