Wilkes Bashford

[comrade]

Visited the store briefly today.
Haven't been there in maybe six months.
It has definitely declined under the new owners.
The salesman was pushing Partenopea as a new
brand for them. I know it has a good reputation, but
Wilkes' buyers choices are rather generic and boring
like the local Saks and Nieman Marcus. Far all its'
faults and eccentriciticies, the old Wilkes is already
being missed.

 

[rjsphd]

I just visited Louis, Boston--Wilkes East--for the first time at its new location and found the whole experience desultory. It had about 20-25% of the men's inventory of the old store. Gone are the lust-worthy shoes (They carried EG, Lattanzi, Mantellassi, Lobb in the past), gone are the three Bs-- Barbera, Borelli, Brioni, gone are the racks of outerwear and collections of accessories. The sales staff were dressed like schmoes. They were pushing Belvest. In fact Partenopea was having a trunk show, but from what I could tell it consisted of a couple of books of mediocre fabrics and a lot of uneaten food. Could have shot quail in the place.

Is BG the last great men's store?

 

[comrade]



I just visited Louis, Boston--Wilkes East--for the first time at its new location and found the whole experience desultory. It had about 20-25% of the men's inventory of the old store. Gone are the lust-worthy shoes (They carried EG, Lattanzi, Mantellassi, Lobb in the past), gone are the three Bs-- Barbera, Borelli, Brioni, gone are the racks of outerwear and collections of accessories. The sales staff were dressed like schmoes. They were pushing Belvest. In fact Partenopea was having a trunk show, but from what I could tell it consisted of a couple of books of mediocre fabrics and a lot of uneaten food. Could have shot quail in the place.
Is BG the last great men's store?

BG?
In New York. Not bad the last time I checked, two years ago.
But the Belvest cut they were then featuring didn't conform
to my "personal Belvest paradigm"-- This sounds like something
out of an up-dated Oscar Wilde. Anyway, the shoulders were too padded.

 

[tggnc]

Wilkes "East" includes Mitchells of Westport, Richards of Greenwich, and Marshs of Long Island, but it is not connected to any retailer in Boston. Wilkes Bashford's west coast stores are in San Francisco (the original) and Palo Alto, CA. Mitchells, Richards, Marshs, and the two Wilkes Bashfords are part of the same company: The Mitchells Family of Stores.

 

[ohdannyboy]

anybody know if Mitchells / Richards carries Partenopea? I'm a big fan of this jacket, and the Wilkes West seems to carry it (according to their facebook page)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...27672553.29533.153072258036300&type=1&theater