California Dreamer
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I went down to my favourite outlet shop today. They are a twinned operation. One side sells Italian clothes like Zileri, Cerutti 1881, Valentino, Ungaro. The other sells a vast array of shoes.
They were having their winter sale. I had a look at the clothes, but wasn't very impressed. Saw a Zileri Gruppo for about $900, which didn't really excite me. So I wandered over to the shoe warehouse.
Right. First off, these guys know nothing about shoes. They generally just stack boxes on the floor. So they have mixed up Santoni, Santoni orange FAM and Santoni tan FAM and charged similar prices for all of them. On top of that, they had 40% off their outlet price. So there were quite a few new Santoni tan socks for around $300-$400. For example, the black monks I have were $350. I tried on a pair of black chelsea boots which fitted very well, but I couldn't quite afford them at $410. There were some terrific chukka boots, but not in my size.
As well as the Santonis they have Moreschis, Prada, Tod's, D&G, Costume National, Allen Edmonds, Church's, Trickers and a bunch of others for 40-50% off outlet prices. Range is a bit limited, so you had to be lucky. Sadly I wasn't. (There was a gorgeous light brown tan sock wholecut I would have killed for but they only had it in 8.5).
Upstairs they have the ***-ends. These are shoes they have only one or two of, and you have to get really lucky here. If you do, you are REALLY lucky. 60% off outlet price, plus another 10% off that price now. These are generally in unusual sizes but I again saw Santoni FAM, Grenson, Church, Tricker, CN, Tod's and others. At these prices, there were FAMs at around $250. Sadly I didn't find anything for my elephant feet, although a pair of Trickers St James brogues for $225 almost fit.
I walked away rather disappointed. My wallet had a narrow escape, but I'm still dreaming of those tan-sock chelsea boots. Maybe if some money falls from the sky ...
They were having their winter sale. I had a look at the clothes, but wasn't very impressed. Saw a Zileri Gruppo for about $900, which didn't really excite me. So I wandered over to the shoe warehouse.
Right. First off, these guys know nothing about shoes. They generally just stack boxes on the floor. So they have mixed up Santoni, Santoni orange FAM and Santoni tan FAM and charged similar prices for all of them. On top of that, they had 40% off their outlet price. So there were quite a few new Santoni tan socks for around $300-$400. For example, the black monks I have were $350. I tried on a pair of black chelsea boots which fitted very well, but I couldn't quite afford them at $410. There were some terrific chukka boots, but not in my size.
As well as the Santonis they have Moreschis, Prada, Tod's, D&G, Costume National, Allen Edmonds, Church's, Trickers and a bunch of others for 40-50% off outlet prices. Range is a bit limited, so you had to be lucky. Sadly I wasn't. (There was a gorgeous light brown tan sock wholecut I would have killed for but they only had it in 8.5).
Upstairs they have the ***-ends. These are shoes they have only one or two of, and you have to get really lucky here. If you do, you are REALLY lucky. 60% off outlet price, plus another 10% off that price now. These are generally in unusual sizes but I again saw Santoni FAM, Grenson, Church, Tricker, CN, Tod's and others. At these prices, there were FAMs at around $250. Sadly I didn't find anything for my elephant feet, although a pair of Trickers St James brogues for $225 almost fit.
I walked away rather disappointed. My wallet had a narrow escape, but I'm still dreaming of those tan-sock chelsea boots. Maybe if some money falls from the sky ...
