It’s hard to find Christmas presents for fashion-forward friends in Columbia, but if any store fits the receipt, it’s Swank, downtown’s top spot for of-the-moment dresses, baubles, tops and coats by Seven for All Mankind, French Connection and Kenzie, among others.

Can’t afford $200 dresses and $150 jeans?  Lucky for your waning checkbook (we know, too many trips to Abigail’s and pit stops for cheap drink specials), its already-reduced clearance items are an extra 50 percent off.  That means you can cross that prima donna friend off of your shopping list (and pocket a top or two for yourself along the way).