Sailing through the sales takes some doing. The new season, while only just starting in ‘scattered showers’ and ‘sunny intervals’ as usual, is already ‘last season’. The wellspring of items reduced to make way for new stock is already almost over. This is the irony of the Fashion Week showings too, always apparently out of synch with the weather and your brain. Designers work so many seasons and years ahead, with the Spring-Summer 2016 menswear shows already done and dusted before the middle of 2015 has even hit. In terms of sale offerings it’s the savvy shopper who hangs onto their dreams, dignity and cash by holding out for the final reductions and the best of the dregs. The advantage of
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