50% off is the new black.

CLOSING SALE IS STILL KICKING ASS.
MANY FINDS TO BE...FOUND.

We just brought out more stuff to satisfy your liquidation jones. And, for the first time ever, we put a rather sweet selection of jewelry on sale!

Some of the new clothes on sale include j.brand's fabulous Zazou jean, wide leg Jordaches, high rise Blank cutoffs, Bow & Arrow Blouses, Dada mod mini scooter dresses, Found denim rompers, Del Fortes organic jumpers. This is the year for a recession-friendly spring wardrobe!

Sale (including jewelry) is ONLY at 390 Metropolitan Ave.

LOST OUR LEASE.

After five amazing years we are
closing our Metropolitan location.
50-75% off the entire store starting TODAY

We will be bringing new stuff out throughout the next two months so make sure to continue checking in. Only at 390 Metropolitan Ave.

The Bedford location - jewels and all - remains unscathed!!

party dresses.

Got a party to attend? Or perhaps you're feeling a tad fancy? Check out these two sweet, new party dresses just in. (The top one has the extra bonus of being appropriate for any season.)

mink pink.

Here is just a tiny teaser taste of the new stuff from Mink Pink, our favorite new line out of Australia. (Which, by the way, looks like the most annoying movie ever, if you ask me.)

The jacket? Ziggy Stardust makes out, okay shakes hands with, a young-ish Michael Jackson. $86. The dress? Lady Chatterly makes a Very Special Appearance on Dallas. $80. And I swear - no one will ever know. Unless you tell them - which you should.

(These items, already at the MOST recession-busting prices, are still on sale thru this weekend.)

jean pool.

The jeans at the Metropolitan store, with our super duper helpful tags.

this just in.

Lorick, designed by Abigail Lorick. The line is jaw dropping. It has a timeless, elegant, sophisticated feel but with an unmistakable edge. (The line has something to do with Gossip Girl but I am not sure what, as I am over the age of 30. I think I am actually not allowed to watch it.) My favorite dress makes me think of Mad Men. Maybe something Betty Draper would wear to a cocktail party.

(The Internerd tells me this: Blair's mother's fashion line, Waldorf Designs, is in fact a real collection called Lorick designed by Abigail Lorick. So there ya go.)

Q is for Quail.

More new stuff on the way from Quail. Take a gander. Really great, interesting constructions, Easy flattering style. Cool and very affordable. (Everything falls well under $200.)

fall. oh how i lurv thee.

New fall merchandise has been streaming in and it is oh so great. (I am really resisting using lots of caps and exclamation points here.)

Our favorite new line right now is Mink Pink. It's from Australia, where apparently they know a little sumpin sumpin. Oh and you thought it was all koalas and dingos eating babies. The prices are friendly as can be (under $100) and it is just irresistible. (So irresistible, in fact, that we sold some stuff to a smart and discerning cookie before we had finished unpacking the box.)

More pics to come! Please come by and check out the new wares in person. We did all the work for you and edited like crazy. There is a really wide price range and the styles are fun, flattering, easy and exciting to wear. Set yourself apart this fall by not wearing what everyone else is lazily picking up at Urban and H&M. We just got in lots of awesome new designers that will soon get scooped up by all the Big Names - get in on the action early. You'll be happy you did.

the good, the bad and the AWESOME.

Judi Rosen jeans are at catbird right now. Do you know how great they are? Do you!? She, and everything she touches, is golden. We are the only store to carry them in the whole of the outer boroughs. Limited quantities, so do your butt a favor and come quick. (Available in black and two blue washes.)

jean shopping is hard.

It's universally acknowledged that jean shopping is hard. But we all know that having a few pairs of the right jeans is a surefire way to help you walk the earth with a sure and confident stride. They're what you wear when you don't know what to wear, or are feeling less than awesome. So, to ease your burden, we developed these tags that will be attached to each member of our insanely well-edited selection of jeans. Each tag has the brand and style, a picture and some details about the fit. Not all skinny jeans are made alike you know! (Tags coming soon - almost done!)

new stuff!

We were sooooo smart this year and the items coming in are just right for late summer/early fall. Are you ready for huge bulky coats and sweaters right now? Neither am I. But how about these amaaaaazing, sheer, thin cashmere leggings? I mean really, in this age of gilded lilies, why on earth are you not wearing cashmere leggings?

This Saja dress - and this general trend - is blogged about rather eloquently here. It is gorgeous, refined and cool - and surprisingly easy to wear. Much easier to wear than you are probably thinking right now.

Okay. Look. This dress by T Lux -in the window right now - has a modern ROOSTER print. Yeah. You heard me. Roosters. It's being worn by our lovely armless model with a great, cardigan vest by LAMade, who, lucky for us, ventured into the world of extremely affordable sweaters. Featured in the foreground is quite the jaunty fedora. Seriously, there is no reason you should not be stylin' to the max this Fall.

della! DELLAAAA!!!

Okay so it's true, we have a lot of j.brands, a lot of wide legs and a lot of high rise - but here it is kids, the trifecta. And they are AWESOME. Vintage-inspired embroidered details are perfectly done - and not at all overdone. Extremely butt-smackin' flattering. Go get 'em Tiger. (Oh, and her name is Della. Which is a really nice name.)

fall. but just a little.

Fall stuff has started coming in and we are excited! Summer, it was nice knowing ya but we're done, thanks. No offense. We try our darnedest to push it so Fall stuff comes in as late as possible (this is actually really hard as the seasons dictated by the fashion industry have little relation to the weather outside - for example, according to clothes, Spring starts in January). The Rite Aid on my corner was proudly showing candy corn - CANDY CORN!! - at the end of July! We don't roll like that.

Anyway - the stuff coming in you could easily wear right now and keep wearing into Fall. Por ejemplo:

Super sweet silk blouse by Penguin. You could wear it now or layered when it gets cooler. (When is that again?)

You'll have to trust me on this, but the print on this top is FOXES. That's right. For extra foxiness. In case anyone had any doubts.

More stuff coming in regularly. Stay tuned.

SAAAALE!

super awesome sale starts today! heavily advertised as starting tomorrow but special peeps get in a day early ... score 20-75% off hard-to-find pieces from orla. j.brand, trovata, anna sui, corey lynn calter.... and we will bringing more and more stuff out all the time...

i love this dress.

This dress is by Bow and Arrow, one of our favorite new designers. If Jackie O worked in a cafeteria, this is what she would be sporting. And it has pockets, for your extra hair net.

jean pool.

Did you know that we are JEAN-iuses? For real. We take our jeans super seriously. We do not fall prey to stupid trends (only ones that make at least a little sense), and we spend a LOT of time and effort stocking styles, sizes and washes that will make you happy.

We tend to stay away from a lot of fading, sanding, whiskering and deliberate holes and rips and veer more towards clean washes. Low rises are sort of at the bottom of the list (although hard to avoid) but we stock as many mid and high rises as we can. And - and this is important here folks - we order FULL SIZE RUNS. Meaning we always get 29s, 30s, 31s and sometimes 32s when we can. We sell out of these sizes fast but we always order them!

When we go to showrooms we don't just get what the reps tell us are their "number ones". We inspect, feel, try on and really think about YOU - coming into the store looking for the perfect jeans. The shop is small - but even if it wasn't, there is no need to overwhelm you with all the choices out there in the world. We edit it for you. Only the best. The coolest. Cuz what's better than the perfect pair of jeans?

Come in and pick our brains. We're ready.

Some denim lines we carry: found, j.brand, deener, del forte, wrangler, jordache, level99, blank, odyn, and coming soon, corpus.