The Gap probably doesn’t need free advertising from tiny little us, but we thought you might want to know that they’re having a $19.99 deal on jeans until Thursday, in stores only. We called the three Brooklyn outposts to see what was on sale and each has a variety of styles at that price, which normally go for $49.50 to $69.50. Two questions: What’s wrong with a Gap in say, Atlantic Center Mall? And what happened to the one on Montague Street?
Marine Park/Mill Basin Gap, 5100 Kings Plaza, 718-253-1125; Bay Ridge Gap, 423 86th St., 718-833-6621; Bensonhurst Gap, 2101 86th St., 718-372-3170.
When it came time to do some recon at the Fulton Mall, we turned to our fashiony friend Subira, who has an internal GPS that zeroes in on the groovy hippie-chick stuff no matter how many dayglo patent-leather gladiator sandals and ham-handed poly prints stand in her way. “I go to Fulton Street for bargains with personality—statement earrings, print skirts, delicate summer dresses, ruffled peasant tops and chic shades,” she says. “You want to go for good basics in a place like this and stay away from the over-embellished stuff.” Off we went. 
We’re all about the little shops here in Brooklyn, but when there’s another place somewhere with really good deals, our readers should know about it—even if it’s in Mumbai. So a few months ago, for an article in one of 
