Mandee

I like this store and their items although the place has become too pricey for the quality of the fabrics they use. I wish the place was more organized, spacious and the staff were more friendly, helpful and did their job well — hate their attitude!

Poor customer service. I entered the store, and heard one of the employees shout «Can you get these damn customers out of here! Its closing time and I’ve been here since this morning!!» Did she have to vocalize her frustrations? There’s a wide selection of clothes here, but don’t expect good customer service from these people. Yikes!

This is a nice store with great clothes. But it’s gotten pricey over the years. It’s extremely cluttered and you can barely walk around the store comfortably. The employees attitude sucks. They give off an «I’m better than the customers that shop here» attitude

Worst shopping place ever! Employees don’t care about customers and have very rude attitude.

First off, it’s way too tiny. Second, the employees allow ghetto trash to touch & threaten people. Had this piece of ghetto trash show a wonderful example to her child (who she claims was there) by trying to start a fight with me b/​c she couldn’t be bothered to have her kid or maybe herself not get in the way of someone with a bunch of bags on their shoulders trying to shop there. No employee interference, no security guard, no one interrupts this woman’s screaming scene where she proceeds to tap my forehead. Had she done more or wasn’t some inconsequential piece of ghetto trash sure to win Mother of the Year, maybe it’d have been worth my time to engage this lowlife but I opted out. Furthermore, they have no clothes for super thin people AND it seems they let this bitch serve as sheriff of this place. I’ll be making a call to the corporate headquarters & alerting the franchise owner of this; I also wonder if this piece of ghetto trash would have done this to a black or Latino woman.
Free tip: if you want this area of Brooklyn to not be seen as a ghetto piece of trash that respectable people don’t want to go to, maybe you shouldn’t be having store management & personnel allowing garbage like this to harass people and attempt to engage in fights. Real class there.

Great store! Everything is very affordable and the workers so nice and helpful. Definately would be going back soon !

Great store overall. Even when i think the merchandise there is a little too pricey for what its worth. The staff is friendly but they always seem to be busy doing something and cannot be found easily. They do have some nice items but for some reason i have been shopping less often at this location. I prefer the one on 5^th ave and 13^th street.

Mandee’s is freaking awesome. I was lured in by the sequins, stayed for the shoes.
Every single store and seemingly every catalog (well, not Lands’ End; when that happens, we know the apocalypse is truly upon us) has been pushing that whole sequin look. Sequined tank tops! Sequined tank tops! Sequins!!! J. Crew almost has me convinced that it’s normal to wear sequins and sweat pants. There’s only so much advertising pressure a girl can take before she caves. And right now (Holiday 2010), Mandee’s is chock full of some pretty awesome sequined stuff. And, unlike the $ 98 sequin tank tops or $ 200 sequined skirts at J. Crew (and, unrelated, seriously, J. Crew? What the hell is up with your prices anymore? None of your stuff warrants those prices; on sale, maybe, but geeesh. But I digress). Anyway… yes, Mandee’s has awesome sequins for an awesome price. $ 30 sequined dresses! $ 20 tops! Whoo hoo!
And, you know what, they are surprisingly decent looking. I am not Mandee’s target demographic (I’m probably old enough to be the target demographic’s mother), but I found myself thinking, hmmm, not bad.
One of the best parts was the label of one of the sequined dresses said «Tramp.» Because if you pulled a Back to the Future in this dress, that’s what people in 1952 would think your name was. I’m now regretting not having bought that dress (it was $ 30).
They’ve also got a great selection of cheap shoes. I can go either way when it comes to shoes: I have spectacular expensive (most courteous of profoundly awesome luck at the Barney’s Warehouse Sale), and shoes from Wal-​Mart (don’t judge; they were $ 1 and cute). I got a great pair of nifty little flats for $ 22. The whole reason I was even near this Mandee’s was because I was planning on going to DSW to buy some other cheap flats I had seen (that were $ 39); thanks to Mandee’s I saved $ 15, which, in my world, is a good bottle of wine.
In other words, Mandee’s can dress me up like a Tramp (in a good way, I really realized I made a mistake not buying that dress), make me feet look super cute, and get me drunk. Which is more than most of my boyfriends ever accomplish, frankly.
Now, this particular branch of Mandee’s isn’t so bad. Not as large as the one on 14^th St., but then you’re not duking it out with NYU undergrads. No, I don’t actually spend a lot of time in any Mandee’s, but I have been to the one on 14^th St., once. Anyway, this one is fine. It’s a cheap clothing store in New York City, so customer service is going to be sketchy at best, but whatever. It’s fine. Not really a 5* experience (it is too crowded, a bit messy, and with crappy dressing rooms, in the mode of Old Navy), but for the price, damn good for what it is.
Basically, Mandee’s is what I always thought Top Shop should be: actually cheap, trendy, throw-​away clothes. And if you want to realize your dreams of looking like a disco ball this season, for cheap, get thee to Mandees!

This store in particular packs a lot of trendy clothes and accessories into one space. I like the selection, but the aisles are a little small. Furthermore, they were out of a lot of shoe sizes, especially in boots. However, with a bit more patience, you can find a lot of good stuff here.