Sample Sale Bonanza Day 3 – Marc Jacobs

So after downloading our new favourite iPhone App “5800+ Cocktail Recipes”, and a night of experimenting exotic takes on Vodka, we woke up kinda late for Marc Jacobs the next day. In fact, rumor had it folks were standing outside the 146 Mercer store from as early as 7am, with the queue bending around the Mercer hotel by 8:30am. With the doors opening at 10am, famished fashionistas feasted on grogeous MJ bags. And with prices hovering only from $50-$300 for high end leather bags, even the street counterfeit sellers had to go into the store and snag what they could.

Corner of Houston and 6th

As our Twitter feed shows, we got there by 5pm and queued up as far as back of the Mercer hotel. We made good conversation with the ladies on line, who were all but nervous that there wouldn’t be anything left by the time they got in. From a peek through the store window, we spotted piles of bags along the middle aisle when we walked by and knew there would be more than enough to go around. After a 1 hour wait, our toes were colder than Stylistas TV ratings, but that happily changed upon walking through the boutique’s brick lined doors.

Marc Jacobs Mercer Street Queue

But what greeted us inside was everything save magical – in fact, it was like a retake on the Le SportSac madness, except the girls were a lot taller and they came prepared for a fight. With cluttered boxes of mismatched shoes everywhere, bags piled on top of bags spilling out onto the floor, the MJ boutique looked like another poorly planned FEMA project. The staff valiantly tried to meet the enormous queue of buyers, swiping credit cards in a flurry, just to get as many buyers out as more came in.

Fistfight for anything MJ

We took a deep breathe, turned our rings around, took off our earrings, hiked up our skirts and dove into the pandemonium elbow first. Immediately, we knew we were leaving MJ with at least two things: bags and shoes. To that, we immediately snagged a couple lovely Silver ruby-eyed frog pochette purses in every colour under the Fall rainbow: navy blue, black, and ivory.

Mountain of discounted MJ bags

Mismatched MJ shoe boxes

Next we snatched up the same pochette but in clutch format, sans strap and in black. Whilst looking for shoes, we were torn between a black laced ballerina and a smooth lavender satin bow flat. The latter won, since it seemed to go best with our Alexander Wang cashmere knit.

With these savings, we even felt compelled to get something for the special guys in our life. A last pair of 90% discounted brown suede sneakers in 9.5′s meant we couldn’t pass them up.

The damage: $100 pochette (x3 @$300), $50 clutch, $60 flats, $26 men’s sneakers.

Grand total: $476, tax included!

After quickly checking our receipts to make sure there wasn’t some catch to this sale, we still buzzed from the shockingly awesome deals we were able to come away with. Every other store we visited afterwards was just the after-shopping orgasm to our MJ climax. We especially took pleasure in having sales reps in other stores ask us if we went to the MJ sample sale. To that, I simply swiveled around to show my huge white Marc Jacobs shopping bag and smiled.

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