Adam, I love you.  Really, there’s no one quite like you for just-right fabulously slouchy sweaters and gorgeously tailored skirts.  But neither I nor my bank account can handle the ongoing torture of seeing the kinds of sales you keep posting on all my favorite items.  Have a heart.  It’s after Christmas, and I am still reeling from the madness.

As any fashionista could hardly have failed to notice, the pre-Christmas sales this year were completely insane.  The massive hordes that descended on Saks and carried away half its inventory like locusts were entirely justified by the preposterous 70% off deals they were offering on a huge range of designer merchandise.  Online retailers like Shopbop and Revolve appeared to be engaging in scorched-earth financial warfare with sales sometimes providing massive reductions on their entire sites.  Despite my best efforts to remain detached, I was drawn in until my bank account lay in ruins on the field of battle.

I am experiencing major sale fatigue.  At this point, I have so damn many cute silk tops that even Gilt’s daily intrusions into my e-mail inbox merely make me tired.  I am looking at the Adam website only for aesthetic satisfaction.  At full price, I can resist.   My bank account really does not need any $350 tops at this time of year.  But no sooner do I see and fall in love from afar with some full-price item than it suddenly reappears on sale.  You have removed the Fall 2008 collection from the website.  This is probably a kindness, as those items were starting to reach Banana Republic prices that were breaking my will.  I know all too soon, however, that the Resort collection, already significantly on sale, will reach near-irresistible reduction levels.

This sweater, for example?

At full price I clearly couldn’t justify it so soon after the Christmas shopping bloodbath.  But 30% off?  And this skirt, now over 40% off?

Oh, Adam.

Ladies, beware.  He is a dangerous man.  And if you are on a strict budget, don’t click on the links.  It’s like trying on the Chanel.  No good can come of it.

Tags: Adam, Adam Lippes, Fashion, sale

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