"J. Crew is also a different thing because it weirdly feels more legit than Anthropologie. It’s an affordable version of an actual lifestyle. The J.Crew lifestyle is an actual thing—preppy people, living in maine, drinking martinis. It feels all of a piece, but just a little cheaper. Whereas Anthro is like, clothes for no one. A hobo living in the bahamas? A fancy forty-year-old woman who’s had too much white wine and is on vacation in the tropics? Someone who only rides bicycles while wearing espadrilles?"