Hello ladies! I have recently discovered HL and am having a lot of fun exploring the designs. I've noticed that a lot of the ladies on here score beautiful HL dresses at reduced prices on sale, at least the reveals on here seem to be a lot of sale purchases rather than full price, and that has got me wondering...do most HL dresses eventually go on sale? With all the different sources for HL including department stores, boutique, online outlets, etc. it seems like there are many options for buying and your chances of waiting it out for your dress to go on sale would be good. Is this something you long-time fans have noticed? Or do you have to grab a dress you love before it sells out? On neimanmarcus.com and saks.com I've noticed the smaller sizes (XXS especially) seem to sell out first, but the larger sizes tend to stick around till the summer and winter designer sales.
A lot of the dresses do go on sale eventually, though there are certainly some styles in some colors that get sold out of boutiques before they get there. But you'd be surprised at what you'll find on sale -- I nabbed a deep ocean blue Ari dress on sale, and that's a very flattering, super popular style in a gorgeous color. Anyway I have around 20 dresses, and I've never purchased any of them at full price -- most are from the Outnet, around 6 or so are from boutiques (40 - 70% off -- the boutique sales are often better than the Outnet prices), and the rest are from other online stores.
I would say only buy a dress at full retail if you absolutely have to have it for some event (and you can't wait for it to go on sale), or if you love it and it's a unique style and/or unique color. In my experience, most of the classic styles can eventually be found at a discount.