If you can't make it to their sale they will deliver items via their mail-order service
If you can't make it to their sale, they will deliver items via their mail-order service.Starts: 10am today.Ends: Sat 17 July.Where: 28 Howe St, Edinburgh (enquiries & mail order: 0131-225 2888); 24-26 Wilson St, Glasgow (0141-552 5902).17WHISTLESDiscounts on Whistles clothes start at 25 per cent, but they will increase as time elapses. So, if you can hold on to your nerve - and your credit card - until the tail-end of their sale, you may pick up some spectacular bargains. (Unless, of course, others have cracked and got there before you.) The best things to look for here are those classic garments that form the backbone of many wardrobes - black trousers and polo necks, tailored skirts - though their most up-to-the minute designs tend not to be included in the sale.Started: Wed 23 June.Ends: four to five weeks' time.Where: 24 stores & concessions nationwide; for your nearest, call 0171-487 4484.18DOLCE & GABBANADescend to the basement for menswear in their Sloane Street store. They won't be putting a sign in the window, but don't let their low-key approach to sales deter you. Slightly wacky and strangely seductive clothes, predominantly in black, navy and grey, will be discounted by 40-50 per cent. Look out for half-price leather jackets, which, unusually, will be included in the sale, along with combat trousers and stylish leather or nylon satchels.Starts: end of June.Ends: around mid-August.Where: 175 Sloane St, London (0171-235 0335), plus outlets in Harvey Nichols (Leeds & London, see No 4) & in Wade-Smith, Liverpool (0151-255 1077).19DICKINS AND JONESTheir flagship store on London's Regent Street is still struggling to develop any character after its revamp But it does know how to put on a good sale.
In particular, look into their homeware departments - they've been given a dramatic overhaul this year to fall in line with the glamorous stock at their sister store, Barkers of Kensington. There's 25 per cent off Le Creuset cookware (Le Creuset griddle pans will be half-price at pounds 20); and many other ranges of saucepans are reduced by 40-50 per cent.Starts: Thur 1 July.Ends: Sat 31 July.Where: 224-244 Regent St, London W1; The Ashley Centre, Epsom; George St, Richmond - for your nearest store, call 0171-734 7070.20COLOGNE AND COTTONTo walk into one of Cologne and Cotton's five shops is to steal into a freshly laundered linen cupboard: touch the beautifully presented Egyptian- cotton sheets (nothing is prewrapped); smell the scent of its popular range of linen sprays. Several of the high-quality pure-cotton bedlinen lines will feature in the sale: a white embroidered double duvet cover will be reduced to pounds 45 from pounds 59.95, while its matching Oxford pillow case is down pounds 2 to pounds 8.50.Started: last Thur.Ends: around mid-August.Where: three stores in London, one in Cheltenham & another in Leamington Spa - for details, call 01926 33257321LLOYD DAVIESThis chic store has two clear divisions - upstairs and downstairs - and so, conveniently, has the sale. On the lower-ground floor you can get 10 per cent off any furniture ordered in the sale. At street level, in the bathshop, bedshop and kitchenshop, there'll be up to 50 per cent off selected goods. The furniture ranges are mainly sourced from Italian designers, while the eclectic assortment of homewares includes many of the leading names from across Europe and the States.Started: yesterday.Ends: Sat 31 July.Where: 14 John Dalton St, Manchester (0161-832 3700).22CAMPERIrreverent footwear as well as some more feet-on-the-ground boots and shoes. Their core stock, which sells year in, year out, is unlikely to be in the sale, but the great news for foot fetishists is that Camper's seasonal shoes will be discounted by 10-30 per cent.
Look out for their "Chicken" flip-flops, as well as other styles in the Twins range of non- matching pairs of shoes.Starts: first week in July, at 10.30am at the Covent Garden branch (39 Floral St, London WC2), 10am all other stores.Ends: mid-August.Where: three stores in London & one at Bluewater, Unit LO53B; call 0171- 409 3114 for details. 23MARKS & SPENCERSThrow out all those holey socks, grey jockey shorts and threadbare boxers, and indulge yourself at the only shop to go to for new underwear. You don't need to be told that they're good for shirts and jumpers, too. Think about it: your mum will be thrilled.Starts: end of June.Ends: when sale stock sells out.Where: 294 stores nationwide; for your nearest, call 0171-935 4422.24FRASERSClaiming to stock a wider range of international fashion brands than either John Lewis or Debenhams, Frasers' sale should be a happy hunting ground for your summer wardrobe. They will be slashing the prices of electrical goods and bedlinen, and reducing selected goods by up to 50 per cent.Starts: 9.30am, Thur 1 July.Ends: Sat 31 July.Where: Buchanan St, Glasgow (0141-221 3880), & 49 stores nationwide - for your nearest, call 0171-963 2236.25DIVERTIMENTIThis beautifully practical cookshop kicked off its summer sale through its mail-order catalogue in mid-May, with limited stock available until the end of July. Visitors to their stores will have to wait longer for bargains, but there will still be many to be had such as: Vienna hand- made wine glasses and cream-coloured Provencale tableware reduced by 30 per cent; Italian stainless-steel oil cans are 40 per cent off; Manufacture d'Lauriers at 30 per cent off, and Italian wood-and-metal salt and pepper mills at 25 per cent off.Starts: today.Ends: Sun 13 July.Where: 139-141 Fulham Rd, London SW3 (0171-581 8065); 35-47 Wigmore St, London W1 (0171 935 0689); for the mail-order catalogue, call 0181-246 4300.26ROBERT MASONA one-stop shop for classic 20th-century furniture. They specialise in British and Italian designs, and have a comprehensive reference library of brochures.
If it's not in stock, they will order it for you, or even arrange a one-off commission. All new orders placed during the sale will receive a 10 per cent discount. There'll also be up to 35 per cent off ex-showroom stock, plus 10 per cent off newly launched products.Starts: 10am today.Ends: mid-July.Where: Crispin House, New York Road, Leeds (0113-242 2434).27N PEAL CASHMEREAlthough prices at this posh Burlington Arcade shop are normally a bit too steep to make N Peal Cashmere an unqualified recommendation, its sale is well worth marking in your diary. Selected lines will be reduced by up to 50 per cent; stunningly soft twinsets in spring colours will be pounds 169 (reduced from pounds 310), and cropped cardigans will be pounds 99 (usual price pounds 170). And if you're feeling generous towards the man in your life, the sale of men's cashmere is but a few doors away, at No 71.Starts: 9.30am, Thur 1 July.Ends: about three weeks later.Where: 37 Burlington Arcade, London W1 (0171-493 9220).28DAVID CLULOWThis is your chance to break away from the British stereotype of wearing unfashionable and unflattering glasses - and it won't make a serious hole in your bank balance. Designer frames - including Gucci, Chloe, agnes b, Philippe Starck, Paul Smith, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani and D&G - will be reduced by up to 50 per cent.