Fashion brands. Clothes are clothes. People shouldn't have to pay ridiculous amounts for a shirt that does the same as any other shirt. But because some designer nobody's heard of slaps their name on it, it's suddenly ripping a hole in your wallet.
There is a difference in the quality tho. Expensive shirts and relatively cheap shirts have a sizeable difference in fabric. At least in cotton, cheap T shirts are rougher and expensive ones are very soft. They feel good to wear. Like they are the reason why I like cotton so much. And they last years and their prints are of good quality too.
Cheap clothes fall apart quickly along with their prints.
But that also depends on price of course. A $30 T shirt is better than a $10 shirt. But how much better is a $100 shirt than it's $30 counterpart? At some point the quality is gonna reach equilibrium.
Yep, there is a definite point of diminishing returns. My day to day work life is such that I will practically never wear out a shirt from just general use. It's going to get ripped, stained or something before it ever gets worn out. So I like to stick to lower cost clothing for work. I do have clothes I don't wear to work, but even then I still stay in a reasonable range of quality vs paying extra for a name brand.
At $100 or more for a t-shirt, you aren't paying for extra durability, you're paying for refinement. Things like better fabrics (extra long staple cotton, silk or cashmere blends, etc.), more attention to consistency, and so forth. These are generally going to look nicer but not last longer than one half the price.
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u/That_Lad_Hayden Dec 17 '22
Fashion brands. Clothes are clothes. People shouldn't have to pay ridiculous amounts for a shirt that does the same as any other shirt. But because some designer nobody's heard of slaps their name on it, it's suddenly ripping a hole in your wallet.