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Clothingline
This savvy company is like having a stylish best friend who knows when and where all the best sales are. And luckily, you needn’t haul ass around town since Clothingline hosts its markdown fests (usually 50 to 80 percent off) in one location, unloading goods directly from voguish labels including Helmut Lang and Theory. What’s currently on tap? On Thu 10 you can score on deals from Kooba, the superhip handbag line (see Bulletin Board for more details).
Pros: Clothingline.com is instantly gratifying since the merchandise is usually from the current season.
Cons: The warehouse can get pretty mobbed during lunch hours and after 5pm, so we recommend hitting it during off hours to avoid the throngs. 261 W 36th St between Seventh and Eighth Aves, second floor (212-947-8748)
New and Almost New
Germophobes, you won’t have to deal with strangers’ cooties, as 40 percent of the merchandise at this resale shop is brand new. Owner Maggie Chan handpicks every piece hanging on the two color-coded racks serving up Prada, Chanel and Hermès garb ($15 and up).
Pros: Fresh goods come in every week, and prices cap at around $600. Every month selected items are chopped an additional 20 to 50 percent off.
Cons: Most of the clothes are sizes small and medium because they come from samples, magazines or skinny celebs. 166 Elizabeth St between Kenmare and Spring Sts (212-226-6677)
Outlet 7
Chained to your desk all day? Fortunately, this secret spot—a retail addendum to designer haven Showroom Seven—serves up goodies directly off the racks of more than 40 labels, seven days a week. Look for 40 to 70 percent off insidery brands including Benjamin Cho, Orla Kiely and Erickson Beamon, whose python bangles are currently halved to $90.
Pros: Outlet 7 offers discounts on emerging designers as well as covetable established ones, and the list of lines being offered is always expanding.
Cons: The clothes can run on the waify side (most were once showroom samples, after all). 117 E 7th St between First Ave and Ave A (212-529-0766)
Samples for (eco)mpassion
Instead of a photo of a model who chooses to forgo food, an oversized pic of an impoverished girl drinking from a spigot greets customers at this charity-focused shop. Five percent of the proceeds are donated to a different nonprofit each month, such as kiva.org, which lends money to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Ike Rodriguez says the shop is a marriage of his defunct discounter Find Outlet and his earth-conscious e-tailer, greenfinds.com. Currently up for grabs are Lauren Moffat dresses (chopped from $400 to $150) and Linda Loudermilk tops (snipped from $150 to $50).
Pros: The store just opened in March, and in just one weekend, it planted 19,000 trees through donations to the nonprofit Trees for the Future.
Cons: At such a charitable store you might feel guilty just browsing. 2 Great Jones St between Broadway and Lafayette St (212-777-0707)
