IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PHILLIP LIM SAMPLE SALE IS HERE! This sale started on Monday, May 19th and will end Friday, May 22, 2015. This is a sale that I had no plans on missing. Last year, I completely missed it. How you may ask? I rather not say. The fact was I missed it and it was not going to happen to me again this year!
That morning I woke up early like I usually do (around 6:30 and laid in bed for about a half an hour longer.) I was truly perky that morning. It wasn't because I was excited about going to work. It was because I knew that I would be adding more wonderful bags to my ever growing collection of handbags.
Once dressed, I immediately drove from Brooklyn to lower Manhattan. There was traffic going into the city but because I am so familiar traveling back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan; I took local streets and got into the city in about a half an hour.
When I got to 151 Wooster Street (the Soho location of 260 Sample Sale who was hosting the 3.1 Phillip Lim sample sale) there was hardly a line. I got there at 9:30am and there was only 8 people on line. Yes! I said to myself. I am number 9. The sample sale was scheduled to open to the public at 12pm. However, the sample sale was open early to family and friends of Phillip Lim employees. Their expedited entry gave them a big advantage on the goodies that awaited many hopefuls waiting in line. I spent my two and a half hour wait communicating with my sister (who planned on meeting me) and scrolling through instagram.
Why not take a morning selfie? I only had a two and a half hour wait!
About ten minutes before the official public opening, we were all told that we were to take only our wallets and check all personal items including our phones. Once my sister and I made it through the check in, we immediately bolted and got on the line for the handbag section. This section was tiny in space and roped off. About ten people at a time were allowed to shop. There were wall length shelves with medium and larger ryder satchels, 31 hour zip around backpacks, 31 hour bags and other Phillip Lim bags. There was also two portable tables of bags put together in a L formation. One table had clear containers with pashli mini messenger, ryder satchels, soleil mini chain shoulder bags, wendesday flat shoulder bags and many more in it. I had to dig through the bins in order to find the handbag of my heart's desire. I really wanted the pashli totes but they didnt have any when I was there. Those bins contained small bags priced at $200 and medium bags priced at $300. The second table had many large 31 hour bags price at $450, clutches priced at $150 and small and large wallets ranging from $75 to $100.
While there I was not finding any of the handbags that I really wanted until I spotted a shopper with a pashli mini messenger bag. I immediately asked a worker if they had any more of that bag. Unfortunately they informed me that there wasn't anymore of those bags and that many of the better bags were sold during the family and friends shopping hours. I lingered around the small and medium bins searching for anything that would catch my eye. When the same sample sale worker I had spoken to before about the pashli mini messenger bag, handed me it in metallic blue . It was in a replenishment bin that had been brought to them, I was truly grateful for her kindess and many people looked at me with envy.
Here are some of the bags that we purchased that day.
If you havent gone to this sample sale yet, you should. It day three today and I bet there are plenty of clothes and shoes left. However, bags maybe not so much. Thank for reading.
Have a wonderful day!
Xoxo,
Monique