And if you're okay with your goodies having traveled a little, Mabel & Zora's cute stock of dresses will be on sale at 15% off both Friday and Saturday Nov 27 & 28.

I have nothing to say but "oh my GOD" and "WOW" to this Hermés orange John Galanos dress. You wear this, and you steal the show. You win. Done.

Friday, 10am-12pm: Buy 1 Get 1 Half Off
12pm-8pm: 20% off store-wide

Saturday 11am-7pm: 15% off store-wide w/Passport

Sunday 12-6pm: 15% off store-wide w/Passport

Okay and I've saved the best for last—these are the stores on the East Side: Frank James, Lille Boutique, Redux, Rock 'n' Rose, and Second Nature. On the West Side: Covet, Flora, Frances May, Narcisse, and Radish Underground. Unfortunately I will be out of town while all of this is going on, so if you need some gift ideas, these are all on my wish list...

There is so much more where that came from... check it out.

After months of murmurs and negotiations, the Flurry pop-up project is finally on, and officially announced! An effort spearheaded Portland Fashion Synergy, the concept behind Flurry is to revitalize some of the dead retail space downtown (401 SW Morrison, to be precise) and fill it during the holiday shopping season with the work of local designers. Ideally, the temporary shop, which will be open from this Thursday, November 12 through December 30, will sidetrack some of those downtown shoppers on their way to Saks or Nordy's with their fistfuls of platinum cards and inject some cash into the local economy instead. Fourteen local designers will make up the store's inventory: Betty Jean Couture, Christa Taylor, DefYance, Isaac Hers, Janeane Marie, La Merde, Looptworks, Luminita, MAYTEE, O'Pearl Jewelry, RYZ, Sahlia Michelle, Varnish, and WeMa.

The store's hours will be Mon-Sat 10 am-7 pm and Sun noon-5 pm. I'm crossing my fingers that this goes off well—if it does it might just become a local institution. Be among the first to check it out at the opening celebration this Friday at 5 pm!

and pottery by Pigeon Toe Ceramics:

For extra warm-fuzzy points, bring in non-perishable food items for the Oregon Food Bank—the first 200 people to do so will receive "goodie boxes," (and for further reading on how wack economic times impact OFB check out Patrick's article on the subject from last year). In addition, all of the vendors are donating 10 percent of their profits from the sale, and if you visit Burgerville (the MLK, Ivanhoe, or Hawthorne locations), Echo, Goldrush Coffee Bar (2601 NE MLK), Mint, Miss Delta, Union Rose, or the Secret Society Lounge on the 29th, 10 percent of their proceeds will go to OFB too.

Thursday, November 5 5 p.m. — 9 p.m. (35 percent markup on all items)
Friday, November 6 10 a.m. — 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 7 10 a.m. — 8 p.m. (25 percent discount all day)
Sunday, November 8 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. (50 percent discount and bag sales all day)

There will also be a joint trunk shpw between habitual collaborators Gretchen Jones of MothLove and Anna Korte of AK Vintage, fresh off their success at Content '09. Jones is creating holiday exclusives of her pieces in rose and black bamboo jersey (yum):

My favorite AK Vintage pieces are those that employ leather salvaged from vintage gloves. I'm especially feeling leather for necklaces:

Come to the shop from 6-9 pm and meet all these lovelies yourself.

Solid investment!

You can buy the shirt here, but only 'til Nov 1st, so if you've got any, say, Gay Deceivers fans on your list, you could have this totally handled long before Christmas.

25% off 10/1 - 10/4
30% off 10/5 - 10/11
50% off 10/12 - 10/18
75% off 10/19 -10/24

This applies to everything in the store. I actually prefer the term "gambler's sale." Do go you now? Later, in the 75% off zone? I say both, just to be safe.

• Burton DJ Backpack

And this extremely green messenger:

• Gravis Hobo Laptop Messenger

And this rollerball pen:

• Retro 51 Tornado Pen

You'll have so many bags and pens, you won't know what to do with them! Check out the sale before it ends on September 30th.

The Back to School deals include 20% off all regular priced denim and 20% off regular priced clothing (it seems "jeans" are not included in the category of "clothing"-fair enough.). Head to 1605 NE Broadway to catch the sale, going on now through Saturday, September 19th.

Sale is on through the 13th!