LF Warehouse Sale

I was waiting months to first attend the infamous LF Warehouse Sale. I even work up at the ungodly hour of 7am on a Saturday morning to trek over to the Playa Vista area where it was. I found parking, and made my way to enter the (not so long) line into the warehouse to see my dreams come alive in the form of trendy clothes.
They let me in, after having to ditch my much needed iced coffee by the door, to find a huge selection. I was elated, until I began scouring through the piles of clothes and boxes.
The clothes were rejects. I don’t think I ever saw any of the clothes in the LF store, and it’s not hard to wonder why. They were heinously ugly, and more likely than not, never in style to begin with. These rejects of clothing were from 2005 to 2010, and mind you it’s 2012. Things have changed people, things have changed! I cringe as I remember what were in the piles. Flared oddly-​pocketed jeans, sequined throws, plaid blouses with plastic buttons… I digress.
All in all, I did end up buying clothes, for the sake that I made it down there on a Saturday morning and was on a mission for an hour and a half to find something that was actually worth buying. It was a difficult feat. After waiting in an hour line to the register, I successfully made my first — but last — trip to the LF Warehouse Sale.

I’m a die hard LF fan, but I mostly only buy their clothes when it’s on sale at the store or the warehouse sale. I’ve gone to three of them and come back with a few things each time.
Don’t expect to find everything in order. There are just tables and tables of clothes with no sort of organization besides the sizes so get ready to dig. The prices are dirt cheap compared to the regular prices at the LF stores but don’t expect to anything that’s from the past season. Clothing is usually at least two or three seasons old. I always buy the undergarments there because LF’s nude and black tube slips are $ 88 at the store, but are about $ 18 at the warehouse sale.
Shoes are limited because the most popular sizes are taken within the first hour. ‘m also pretty sure that a third of the stuff that’s at the warehouse sale were also not actually sold at an LF store.
Overall, it’s good to go. I’ve come back with a couple of amazing deals: DV pumps, sequin Millau jacket, floral Millau dresses Carmar jeans. You definitely have to spend at least two or three hours there to go through the piles and then try everything on (no dressing rooms but one large room with a few mirrors) but definitely an experience!
Prices are usu:
TOPS: $ 12 – 18
DRESSES: $ 18 – 24
SHOES: $ 25 – 45
UNDERGARMENTS: $ 5 – 10
JACKETS (EXCEPT LEATHER): $ 18
JEANS: $ 12
BOTTOMS: $ 12 – 18
SWEATSHIRTS: $ 8
JEWELRY: $ 7
BAGS: $ 15 – 25
UNDERWEAR: $ 5

Been to this sale numerous times and I agree it’s AWESOME! I got $ 250.00 boots for $ 20.00. The only problem is they stoppped sending the Warehouse Sale dates and Im no longer in the loop. Does anyone know how to find out the dates? I would love to attend the next opening.

After stopping by this sale briefly (and during the last hour of the last day to boot), I can not imagine ever ever ever ever EVER purchasing a single thing at an LF store for full retail price. Check the pricing and you’ll see for yourself that it’s an absurd markup. It’s so handy that you can find price lists floating around the warehouse too so you know exactly how deep of a hole you’re about to burn in your wallet (although is it just me, or does it always end up being significantly more than what I optimistically calculate in my head?)
Plenty of inventory remained even at the tail end of the sale. PLENTY. Like mounds upon mounds of clothes. The only sections that showed obvious depletion were the shoes and accessories and maybe the skirts/​shorts. Oh, and the $ 500 leather pants selling for $ 35 (wtf?)…not a pair could be found bigger than a size 26 and those suckers run about 2 sizes small in the waist though the legs fit true to size and felt like a buttery soft dream. Sigh. Wasn’t meant to be. I still scored like crazy and walked out with:
1pr J (heart)CO multicolor slip-​ons ($ 15)
2 knit beanies ($ 7 each)
1 Millau black/​plaid vest ($ 18)
1 Millau cropped lace blazer ($ 24 — original price $ 168)
5 LF tees ($ 6 each — original price $ 54 – 84 each)
1 Car Mar corduroy skirt ($ 12 — original price: $ 108)
1pr leggings ($ 7)
1pr Era of Chaos denim ($ 12 — original price $ 238)
2prs Furst Premium denim ($ 12 — approx original price $ 216 each)
A lot of the «original retail price» tabs are missing from the clothing tags on items but being LF you know those original prices are sky high.
Next time I am definitely down to be one of those eager beavers who gets to the sale an hour or more before it officially starts and queues up at the closed doors waiting patiently. You might want to consider doing it too. I think it would be SO worth a few less hours of sleep to score some RIDIC deals.

No lines. Big Warehouse. There’s a small lot for you to park in for free. The shoppers are not too crazy.
The prices are pretty good… but the clothes seem kind of cheap. And, they look okay.
My group left empty handed.

Ditto to everything Erin M. said.
I arrived around 6am and was 5^th in line. Just before the doors opened, everyone in line was handed a clear garbage bag in which to stuff all of the items you possibly can to try on later. And then, the doors open and it’s off to the races.
The items were roughly divided into sections — jewelry and accessories in the front, shoes to the right, jeans and pants on the shelves to the left, etc. I think the game plan was definitely heading straight for the leather jackets and purses, as those seemed to be the first to go. After about an hour of table hopping, I wound up with massive garbage bag filled to the brim with things to try on.
The dressing room, an open space with a few mirrors, was a little chaotic, but manageable. Word to the wise — keep your eyes on your bag at all times as items left unattended become fair game. From the mountain of clothes I had gathered, I left with only a few items. I’m a size 10 girl with curves. As a lot of the other girls in the fitting room commented, the clothes appear to be European cut, so for those of us with curves, much of the clothing just didn’t fit quite right. It was still a successful day, however. My $ 150.00 bag that I purchased for $ 35 and my expensive leather jacket snagged for $ 50 made waking up before dawn and tussling through a mob of bargain hungry women (myself being one of them) well worth it.

This sale offers mind-​blowing bargains, but it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. Put on your shopping armor and get ready for some elbowing action, ’cause this is an all-​out free-​for-​all of neurotic, deal-​hungry women. May God be with you.
Twice annually, this nationwide chain opens up their warehouse by LMU for three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) of shopping mania. Friday is friends and family day — so I suggest you «befriend» an employee or discover a long lost sister at your local store. The warehouse opens at 7am on Saturday, and I kid you not, there is a line the size of a football field by 6:45. People are let in one-​by-​one and handed a clear garbage bag — of which you proceed to fill with things you don’t even like/​need, just so other chicks don’t get their grimey hands on them.
About 200 women (as well as tortured husbands and soon-​to-​be emotionally scarred children) are let in initially. Once they reach capacity, it becomes a one-​in-​one-​out type deal. Clothes and shoes are on tables in huge heaps by size (in theory). You grab anything and everything that appeals to you, and ponder later.
It’s work — you really have to sift through clothes, shoes, belts, jewelry, etc (while also bobbing, weaving and fighting off savage school teachers). And what’s a killer warehouse sale without horrid dressing room conditions? 15×10 foot sweat box with 50 women, 6 rinky-​dink munchkin mirrors and bodies that make you wanna wash your eyes out with acid… good times.
The deals are worth the trouble — for those who aren’t easily traumatized. Designer jeans for $ 18, $ 500 leather jackets for $ 50 and $ 200 shoes for $ 10.
Why would anyone pay retail when it will be at this sale in a few months? And the answer, my friends, is… time, organization of the merchandise and blood pressure levels.