Oh! The Horror: Paul Smith Sample Sale

Usually we look forward to the Paul Smith sample sale. This season, we really felt that The Shophound's closets were bloated enough, and yet we couldn't resist, and found ourselves making some lame excuse to go down to Greene Street. The potential for piling up goods was high, as the prices were low as usual, however, the scene, as you can see, was chaotic to put it mildly.
In the past few seasons, the sale has been held at the Chelsea Market, and moving the sale to the smaller open space at 76 Greene Street (formerly Bagutta, UNIQLO temporary store and countless other short term and pop-up stores) has ramped up the frenzy and created the worst sort of sample sale havoc. Moving the sale to busier SoHo has naturally increased traffic. We saw all sorts of things to buy, Including things we had our eye on form the boutique, but actually getting to them and taking the time to rummage for sizes hit way above our 'I can't be bothered-get me out of here' threshold. It was with some relief that we skipped out without a purchase.
See, we can exercise restraint.
Of course, there is that slim possibility that we may have to stop by on Saturday to check out the last-day-price-slash.
Paul Smith Sample Sale, 76 Greene Street through Saturday March 13, SoHo

Comments

[Deme]

For the women the sale was pretty lame compared to previous years. Not nearly as much merchandise as before. I'm thinking it was actually about 1/10 the usual inventory.

The good thing is, I don't ,know if its because there wasn't much home stuff or women's wear but there was no line to pay the second day. I'd never seen that at a Paul Smith sale.