Cheap Gear Rundown
Painfully Hip Gear: Barneys New York
100 Huntington Ave, at Dartmouth; 617.385.3300
Get 40-70% off crewneck and button-up cashmere sweaters from Vince and Shipley & Halmos, polos from Gant, button-ups from APC and Loden Dager, and tees from Friend or Foe, who peddle shirts with "iconic music imagery", which is clearly an empty claim seeing how there's not one single picture of Peabo Bryson.
Get what you need at Barneys.com
Fancy Kicks: Allen Edmonds
36 Newbury St, at Berkeley; 617.247.3363
The classed-up dress shoe purveyor is offering crazy sales (up to 80%) on selected kicks, like the handcrafted Italian leather boot Brunico featuring shearling lining and "distinctive metallic accents" (down from $300 to $99), and savings of more than 50% on the Delray, a tapered, split-toe blucher dress shoe available in Chili Burnished Calf, a style the calf probably wasn't overly psyched about.
You don't have a split-toe blucher style dress shoe?
Fresh Gear: Motley
623 Tremont St, at W Canton; 617.247.6969
50% off all Jack Spade Warren St bags/luggage, half off all winter hats and accessories, and 25% off Levi's -- savings that will truly benefit you, especially if your investment strategy remains "Buy crapload of jeans. Sell in Latvia".
Eastern Europeans still love denim!!!
Prep Gear: Vineyard Vines
800 Boylston, btw Gloucester and Fairfield; 617.927.0490
The freshly opened Pru preporium is giving you 50% off any woven shirt w/ the purchase of another, which still isn't close to enough pink attire to make a splash at The Gazebo on Figawi weekend, but it's a start.
You also need an outfit for The Chicken Box!
Street Gear: Karmaloop
160 Newbury St, btw Dartmouth and Exeter; 617.369.0100
Newbury's streetwear don is rocking a "huge denim sale", slashing 20-70% off hella denim from Artful Dodger, WeSC, Altamont, and nearly infinite styles from LRG, like the Heavy Mental Straight Fits, and the "Friction Classic", a throwback to the glory of middle school dances.
Humpin' Around was a solid dry humping song
Suited Gear: Sean
76 Dartmouth, at Appleton; 617.399.3993
Emile Lafaurie's South End suitery has 60% off selected winter season suits, coats, and sweaters, and is offering a dress shirt sale, with 30% off one, 40% off two, and 50% off three, savings reflecting the popular maxim "one's a crowd, two's a party, but three's probably too many dress shirts, you corporate drone".
JFK said that! See what you've been missing at SeanStore.com
All The Gear: Tannery
11 Brattle Circle, at JFK; Harvard Square; 617.491.0810
50% off a huge selection of denim from William Rast, Seven, and AG; 40-60% discounts on Morphine Generation tees, Montrail footwear, G-Star gear, and even Aero 90 TFS rollerblades, proving the hardest thing about rollerblading is...getting your money back.
Don't forget the wide selection of cowboy boots!
Fleece Gear: Eastern Mountain Sports
855 Boylston St, at Gloucester; 617.236.1518
Get up to 50% off selected North Face and EMS jackets and fleecewear, because this is Boston, and you wear a North Face fleece.
