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The outlets are mostly boring lately, but the true “wins” at the outlets are when you’ve got one located near a primary RL mansion.
Only know of the one near me, but I’m sure this exists elsewhere….
Ralph Lauren has a big mansion store on Michigan Ave in Chicago.
They don’t like to discount the purple label stuff too outwardly in the store. They’ll do it, but they hide it a bit…
When they’d have stuff left that needs to be clearances out, they’ll put it on a rack in the polo section…. But primarily they end up sending it to the Rosemont outlet.
The best deals at outlets are when they get these deliveries…
As the purple label stuff will already be heavily marked down, and the store discounts apply to the purple label stuff as well.
My best but ever was getting one of these pieces at an outlet….
Got a Purple Label overcoat, full length, 100% cashmere, cream colored. MSRP would be $4-5K these days, but back then… it was tagged $2500.
Was marked down to $500.
The outlet had 50% off everything in store.
Walked out with one for $250!
I was so dumb… I only bought 1. Someone made a killing buying out the 6 remaining… they had just come in that day.
Edit:
Anyone been to polo in rosemont, aurora, gurnee lately and seen any Purple Label?
Yep. Love the Rosemont outlet, I get in trouble there. Stl premium outlet also gets PL sometime.