Costco Clothing Is Cheap. WSJ Readers Love It. But Is It Actually Good Value?

ONE RECENT WEEKEND, in a Manhattan warehouse whose lighting wasn’t doing anyone any favors, I nearly knocked over a tub of M&M’s while trying on a $27 jacket. I passed a rack of Spider-Man costumes en route to fishing a pair of jeans out of a towering stack. While other fashion editors were attending runway shows in Milan, blowing air kisses and clinking Champagne coupes, I was pawing at six-packs of T-shirts beside a fridge filled with breaded chicken fingers.