My daughter is the ultimate prepster. She even has a battered copy of The Official Preppy Handbook. Therefore, it should be no surprise that the J. Crew catalogue comes to my house. Since I am an old prepster myself, I like to thumb through the catalogue whenever it arrives at our home.

     I didn’t know until this morning (thank you, Google & Wikipedia) that J. Crew has only been around since 1983.  My impression had always been that it was a venerable old line New England clothier who specialized in the classic prep look, which was rolled out nationally due to the mail order success of LL Bean. Wrong.

     Please correct me if I am mistaken, but didn’t J. Crew once have a tailored Brooks Brothers like look? For some reason, I have always associated Nantucket red pants and cotton sweaters with J. Crew. There is no question that the predominant material of J. Crew products is still cotton, it’s just cotton that has never met an iron.

    I don’t get it. The J. Crew catalogue is page after page of crumbled rumbled goods. The models look like they’re wearing the dirty clothes found on my son’s bedroom floor. J., I occasionally see items in your catalogue that interest me, but buddy they need to be ironed.