How Durable Are Inexpensive vs. Expensive Clothes?

[Using Technology]

Originally Posted by Teger

Most people wouldn't consider A&F expensive

For a plain t-shirt with some crappy fake faded A&F logo costing like 5 times what a Hanes shirt costs.... I'd consider them pretty expensive.

 

[blackdarkeye]

Originally Posted by Using Technology

For a plain t-shirt with some crappy fake faded A&F logo costing like 5 times what a Hanes shirt costs.... I'd consider them pretty expensive.

i think they are better quality than hanes

 

[H.B.O.]

^^ I would consider A&F t-shirts expensive as well but not anything else they sell. I haven't been in one of their stores in years (I never really did get into the rave scene) so I'm not sure what their clothes go for anymore, but a button-up was, what, $60-70? Jeans for the same. Not bad at all... for sucky clothes.

 

[centrix]

cost is definitely not related to quality, also please change your undies ><

 

[JohnnyLaw]

To the OP: You must be very gentle with your clothes for them to last that long. I would cut down most of your numbers by a factor of around 5 (except for suits, because infinity divided by 5 is still infinity).

This depends largely on the size of your wardrobe, but if you're getting 3 years of wear out of a pair of socks, worn weekly or every other week, I wonder what they look like when you throw them out...

There is no hard and fast rule here, but expensive clothes are generally not more durable that cheap ones (shoes being a possible exception up to a certain point, but Edward Greens probably won't outlive Allen Edmonds, given the same amount of wear).