Welcome to The Great Try-On. We’re gearing up for spring, and that includes freshening up our wardrobes with some new pieces. We got to try on some of the best spring pieces from some of your favorite brands and documented it all from our at-home dressing rooms so that you can see how they actually look IRL. We hope that our photos and candid reviews will help you shop for spring wardrobe builders and trend-forward pieces that you’ll wear over and over this season and beyond.
Growing up, I was always fascinated by J.Crew, as the brand’s cable-knit sweaters, freshwater pearls, and preppy aesthetic dominated the mid-aughts. My older sister was really into it at the time, and given our seven-year age gap and my incessant, annoying need to be just like her when I was younger, I loved it too. Now that the brand has been injected with a much-needed zap of cool-girl energy thanks to Olympia Gayot, head of womenswear design, my love has only grown stronger over the years.
If I’m being honest, my personal aesthetic isn’t always aligned with real clothes. I prefer to sit at home in a comfortable pair of sweatpants, but after scrolling through all of J.Crew’s new spring arrivals, I’ve got to say I’ve been fully converted into the real-pants tribe. Gayot has spoken to Who What Wear about her undeniably chic touch on the new-and-improved J.Crew, pulling out archival ’90s styles and silhouettes that would make any fashion lover throw their money out of the metaphorical window to buy everything on the site. I fully understand why—everything just works so well together.
Far too often as a plus-size editor, I spend hours online looking through retailers and brands only to discover that as much as I love them, they don’t love me back. In today’s fashion ecosystem of dwindling plus-size representation and lack of equal sizing across all aesthetic spectrums, J.Crew proves—once again—that chic clothing isn’t just something that’s promised to the few people who happen to be sample-sized. It’s for everyone.
Out of everything I’ve tried on from J.Crew’s newest arrivals, there isn’t a single thing I know I’ll only wear once, with the majority of pieces blending seamlessly into my comically massive closet. If that isn’t a testament to how versatile everything is, I don’t know what is. If I haven’t convinced you enough to run to see all of J.Crew’s spring clothing items, maybe these nine incredible finds will.
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