The Daily team share their advice for surviving the MR PORTER sale.

Quiiiick! It’s sale time. No time to think. Just act. Now! Start scrolling through everything on MR PORTER with a red number attached to it, blindly click things into your “bag”, and “check out”. Don’t worry what you have in there, or how much it costs, just go for it. It’s the sale! HURRY!

This is the reaction many people have when, much like today, we announce a sale on MR PORTER. Discounted MR PORTER goods can send even the most level-headed of men into a psychotic frenzy. But there is another way. You can do this in a calm, methodical fashion. How do we know? Because we’ve been in this game a long time. And below, we’ve revealed our secrets for sale success. Now, take a deep breath, take on the tips, and begin shopping.

MR CHRIS ELVIDGE Associate Editor

Embrace the oversized fit. Medium sells out fast, but even two, three weeks into the sale you’re still likely to find a lot of great stuff in XL or even XXL. Here are a few things that look good oversized: sweatshirts, Oxford shirts (properly ironed), cardigans, bomber jackets, raglan-sleeved coats. A tip for pulling off the oversized look is to stick to one item and keep the rest of your outfit well-proportioned.

MR SAM MUSTON Deputy Editor

Shopping, like driving a tractor, is an activity best done sober. If you indulge in sale shopping while under the influence of half a dozen sherries, things will not end well. In fact, they will end very not well. I look back across a lifetime of drunken purchases (gold baseball cap, anyone? Bike gloves for my bikeless self…) and lament that credit cards don’t come with a built-in breathaliser.

MR JIM MERRETT Chief Sub-Editor

Judge me by the contents of my wardrobe and you’d have me down as someone who plays it safe. The sale, then, is an opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and throw caution to the wind – in part because bold pieces aren’t as risky as they once were (financially, at least), but also I’m banking on many of the wider male population being much like myself and there being more items with “character” to pick from.

MR JONATHAN DANN Editorial Assistant

Don’t buy something you wouldn’t at least consider paying full price for. A more affordable price is not a justification in itself for buying anything new, and doesn’t mean you will wear it. I try to clear out my wardrobe a couple of times a year, and each time the charity shop fills up with items I wish I had never bought during the sale.

**MR OLIE ARNOLD **Style Director

Have a precise idea of what you want to get so you can be direct. Better still, put a selection in your Wish List and press buy, buy, buy as soon as you can.