Club Monaco: Adventures in decent clothing and horrible marketing

[ryewo[i dmfsOZI490w]



^Going to check Toronto Eaton Center

Did you check?! I literally work across the road from there, but I've been too busy to go check.

 

[James_M]



Is this the casual one in a kind of canvas fabric? that one has been marked down to $129 for a little while now.

I think that is the one. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[irbe]



Did you check?! I literally work across the road from there, but I've been too busy to go check.

Not yet, going after work. Also busy at work lol

 

[7_rocket]



Did you check?! I literally work across the road from there, but I've been too busy to go check.

Same here. Where do you work? I"m at 1 Queen st east. But I'm off today. I"ll be back on Monday

 

[James_M]

I popped on after work and there are a couple of blazers marked down and a couple new butt downs as well as the usual grab-bag in the back. Mostly button downs from last season and maybe even the season before as well as some heavier jackets. I didn't look too closely though because the place was a goddamn zoo. They did have some really nice new shorts out that I'll be back to check out. I wish there were more spring jackets. It's such a short season though, here in Toronto, that it's not worth dropping any serious money on spring outerwear. We can tough it out for a few weeks then it's too hot.

 

[tv2177]

for those of you who are in NYC

This could be interesting. Club Monaco — which has kinda been making a run at “quality brand” status (on par with J. Crew, anyway) — is throwing a bona fide sample sale (courtesy of Clothingline) starting Monday, 3/19. Through Thursday, 3/22, expect deep discounts — we’re talkin’ $1 to $35 on samples from Fall 2011, Holiday 2011, and even Spring 2012.

Club Monaco Sample Sale –Clothingline – 261W. 36th St btw 7th & 8th Aves – 2nd fl – 11am-7pm Daily – Map

wish i can go....courtesy of the choosy baggar

 

[Essential]

^ Does anyone have a lot of experience with Club Monaco sample sales? I've never been to sample sales in general but I hear that you might need to wait hours to even get in; I can probably be there at 4 but it closes 3 hours later, yikes.

 

[ryewo[i dmfsOZI490w]



Same here. Where do you work? I"m at 1 Queen st east. But I'm off today. I"ll be back on Monday

I used to work in 2 Queen, now I'm a couple more blocks up the road.

 

[Dr Huh?]



^ Does anyone have a lot of experience with Club Monaco sample sales?

I believe this would be the first.

 

[Essential]

There was one previous one it seems: http://ny.racked.com/tags/club-monaco-sample-sale

From reading about other people's experiences, it seems that it's super packed. Guess I won't be making it.

 

[Master Milano]

Nah theres been samples sales prior, but theres a line and most of the tuff is sized M (needed xs and s, i went on the third day, so either there just wasnt much or it got picked outpAnd suiting were pretty big. Some nice ties and shirts , but most of the stuff is miscelaneous shirts/pants that never went into production or didnt sell recently. That said, i got a nice pair of white pants in an interesting cut lmao

 

[gettoasty]

CM is another store derived from RL so that will give you an idea of quality and pricing

 

[7_rocket]



I used to work in 2 Queen, now I'm a couple more blocks up the road.

Ok.. Where at? PM if you don't want to say the company name.

 

[Raindrop]

CM is another store derived from RL so that will give you an idea of quality and pricing

CM quality is not bad..when the stuff is slashed twice combined with a student discount.

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Picked up a nice olive nylon down vest which originally sold for $168 for a measly $19 bucks yesterday. With my student discount, it came out to around $17. Pretty crazy.