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The bastard child of an Anthropologie and J Crew tryst...

I love the catalogue. But dont get me started on those damn anklesocks.

I find the style rather oppressive, myself. In the first place, I feel like I'm way too young to have accumulated that much stuff.

But I have to laugh at the Hemingway. I actually do read Hemingway while wearing J. Crew, but I don't look half as glamorous as that dude! Must be the lighting.

the model in the first picture is so tall and thin that she doesn't even look like she is the same scale as the furniture. Like a bad Photo Shop job.

The model needs to lose some weight as she is very close to being a "fat chick".

LOL...that outfit in the first picture reminds me of something I used to wear back in the late 80s and early 90s...although I would usually pair the ankle socks with penny loafers rather than leopard print flats and of course my cardigan would have to have a gaudy looking pin stuck to it too.

Romantic for whom? What about us dudes? :-/

good point, davebarnes.

most of it looks like a hipster Shabby Chic.

What I find ridiculous about these ads (and about most fashion merchandizing) is that the 16 or 17 year old skinny model they plunk into these interiors looks laughably out of place; as Britomart said " like I'm way too young to have accumulated that much stuff"!

If they want to go with interiors like that, then put in models who like they may have put together a home like that.

Michelle Obama is a much better model for this stuff then these little girls... I remember the days when Patrick Dempsey modeled for JCrew (pre-Grey's), as well as Lauren Hutton (who occasionally still does).

Wish they would get real again.

Wow -- all those standing models look so tall that they are dwarfing the furniture. It's like putting Barbie and Ken inside a fancy dollhouse instead of inside of Barbie's Dreamhouse (oh... the working elevator of Barbie's Dreamhouse...)

OK folks, clue in. Antique furniture is smaller because people used to be smaller before everything on your plate was supersized. And this idea that young people can't/shouldn't be in an antique filled room with lots of stuff is just plain bananas. And another thing, the book is by Steinbeck, not Hemmingway. Steinbeck inspired this whole catalogue shoot.

J. Crew does seem to be trying to make itself over into Anthro these days....

Does the skirt in the first picture match the curtains?

anthropologie has too many clothes that contain synthetic materials...so I guess I prefer J. Crew.

i really enjoy j crew catalogs and yes the decoration has skewed more towards antique/vintage anthropologie area but i think it goes well with the styling of the clothes. and i love the pink typewriter in the last picture.

as for the model, I actually think jcrew models are not skinny at all (for models, not real people). they look relatively healthy and not gaunt-like. in fact, she looks like she actually has hips in the last photo *gasp*

take a look in french vogue or other high fashion mags for what skinny really is in the fashion world.

It's ridiculous to say young people can't own antiques. I owned antique/vintage furniture when I was 16. I was the furthest thing from looking like a J Crew model (half the height and twice the weight) but the problem is not youth tchotchkes. Who are we kidding, are we saying teenage girls are all austere minimalists? Tons of them have tons of crap - and not all modern or CB2 crap either.

I hate when people say models are fat. That's why so many young girls have an unrealistic view of their bodies now. She's not fat, she's healthy! Thinner she'd be annorexic. As for the furniture it's stinkin' ugly for a romantic representation. I've seen much better than this one.

davebarnes is obviously half-blind.

Davebarnes, seriously? A "fat chick"?