You don’t often see me talk about mass brands of clothing on this blog. I might feature bits and pieces or a denim line or a specific few pieces of a collection (a la Missioni that is no longer here and I no longer want to see it or have it). But talking about an entire store — like Banana Republic, The Gap and JCrew — isn’t often on my radar. Why? Partly because I find that the last few years the trends have been so repetitive and boring both in texture, presentation and color that I couldn’t cover what was in specific stores. I could find pieces of a look, but not an entire look in one store (whether it was Saks, Nordstroms, Mango or JCrew).

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