Guessing the Barneys Warehouse Sale Dates; Hatters Gonna Hat

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CHELSEA—The Shophound points out that dates for the Barneys Warehouse Sale in Los Angeles have emerged online. Since the LA sale always comes before the one in New York, he uses this information to estimate when we'll get the sale out here: maybe on February 24th, "or possibly on March 1st or 2nd." [The Shophound]

NEW YORK CITY—What happens when Teen Vogue's Jane Keltner de Valle test-drives some fascinators from England's Philip Treacy, the most famous milliner in the most hat-crazed country in all of Europe? Well, at Schiller's on the Lower East Side, the waiter is so impressed by her headgear that he pulls out her chair as if she was at Le Bernardin. But on Lower Fifth Avenue, she's only able to cause a stir for a few moments before she's upstaged by a topless woman. [Teen Vogue]