I used to buy a ton of JCrew and honestly, I'm done! A lot of their prices have gone up, and while the clothes are cute, I haven't had such an incredibly awesome experience with their quality or fit to justify it.
IMO, this stuff is a rather transparent ploy to elevate their image in advance of raising their prices on their regular clothes EVEN MORE. For example, if they're a company that charges $2800 for a cardigan, who cares if they raise the price of a regular sweater from $199 to $249? Even if it's the exact same sweater, made at the exact same cost? As a consumer, I don't like a company that treats me like an idiot, and that's what JCrew is doing.