Yes, says my wardrobe

Wiha for me. I have their stubby bit driver and a wiha bit set. Amazing stuff.

The Hex+ Weras have yet to fail at removing a stuck bolt for me. *Frantically searches for wood to knock on

I bought one of these about six or seven years ago. Still no tears and my 75 lb dog loves to burst through it at full speed.

https://bugoffscreen.com

It's a nylon mesh but maybe a heavier one then what you got. Uses a spring tensioned rod to mount in the doorway which needs to be readjusted every so often and sometimes the dog will step on the screen and pull it down partially but no rips.

I know I am not truly giving the answer you want, but I am interested to see what Reddit comes up with. I ordered a slightly different one the first one was built more robustly and lasted 3 years. So, looked up my order history and I reordered the same screen. However, it feels cheaper and probably won’t last as long. I have had it for only 3 months but it still looks new.screen door

This is an argument I've had about all the stuff in r/rawdenim before. My Levi's from Kohl's seem to last just as many years as the $400 Japanese stuff, yet people will swear that the higher end ones are more durable. Funkier fabrics, sure, but I don't think they're any more durable.

I've also got cheap H&M polos that I've worn for years with no changes in them. For most office workers, if you take care of your clothes, they will go out of style or not fit anymore long before they actually fall apart.

Patagonia also sources organic cotton so their merchandise is less damaging to the environment. Consumers should consider extrinsic costs as well as intrinsic ones when analyzing quality.

No hard evidence like a peer reviewed study. But you can think about the things that cause clothes to wear out.

Fabric quality is one. The lint that comes out of the dryer used to be your shirt, for example. If you are buying a new shirt, better quality cotton fabric is made by spinning longer natural fibers into thread and knitting more threads per square inch. It’s tougher to yoink the long fibers out of the thread because they are spun in there over more twists, while cheaper, shorter staple cotton is more fuzzy and fragile. There’s also just more shirt left after each wash, because the thread count is higher to start with.

On the seams and hems, your high-quality shirt might have more stitches per inch, fewer stops and starts to the sewn thread, and more even stitching. Thanks to that, the sewing is not strained in spots by uneven tension. There are not dangling tufts of thread that can catch and be pulled out.

Finally, your better shirt will be cut better and will fit correctly (if you find the right one for your body, of course), which means it will not pull or rub or be subjected to as much strain.

Of course, you can mess all that up by laundering it on the most aggressive cycle every wash or eating a giant mustard sandwich without a bib, which is why it’s hard to get objective, controlled data.

smart yeah. it'll probably take a trip to the hardware store to get hands-on first. but what i'm picturing in my head is like... maybe it will slap back into place but with a wub wub wub sound instead of a graceful float back to the magnet closure.

So I bought some Eddie Bauer clothes back in 2018, pants and shirts. And a jacket in 2017. They are still in incredible condition today. Last year I went to try to buy more Eddie Bauer stuff to expand my wardrobe a little bit and the buttons on the pants came off within a month, all three pairs, and the shirts armpit seams started unraveling within two months.

My suggestion is look around and carefully examine the different parts of the clothing. You can feel and see the quality if you pay attention.

There is too much fluctuation to make it cut and dry like you have above. I have noticed the same thing with cars, houses, and many other things. There’s a name for it I just can’t remember what it’s called exactly.

Firm believer in buying American made clothes. My red wing heritage boots and socks are on year 5. That’s one pair of boots and three pairs of socks for about 350 bucks that I’ve worn almost every day except for in the summer for the most part. Jeans, Imogene and Willie. My pair is on year 3 and is finally starting to tear and that was for 150 bucks. So for 500 bucks I haven’t bought new shoes, socks or jeans in 5 years. Pretty great.

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I'm ANSI/ESD S20.20 certified and am a program manager at a company building electronics. It's part of my job to ensure compliance.

The problem with those two companies is that they use an insulative mold release during their plastic forming process. The actual plastic itself is carbon loaded and works perfectly, but the surface is insulative so a user has no access to it. Cleaning the tools with isopropanol or acetone removes the film and restores their conductivity, but they're terrible out of the box. They've been informed, but simply don't care and won't change their manufacturing process.

This is why I really companies that are transparent with their pricing. Everlane has this breakdown for their clothes (not that it’s all perfect all the time but that’s the example off the top of my head).

My friend owns the company so I’m biased but I LOVE mine. Comfortable. Durable. Worth the investment imo

I bought a couple suits a few years back, at about the same time. One was a really nice one and the other was a much cheaper version.

The really nice one is still in top shape. The leather only gets softer and more supple with age.

The cheap one let me down a long time ago. The vinyl got brittle and cracked, and the mouth zipper fell apart.

What makes you say that? Do you have a reference?

The nut slap.

r/minimalism is a circle jerk of I've ever seen one. They're almost as bad as r/onebag.

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need to define "quality". you can buy a $5000 "designer" outfit that will shred in the laundry if you dont wash it correctly. so many different kinds of clothing go for different kinds of "quality"

if you look more from the sustainability angle you can find a decent amount of work

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/21/8906 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/21/9151

I think it’s mostly true but you can also find durability in cheaply made items depending on a few different factors. (Fabric content - I pay attention to that, I’m guessing stitching plays a role though I don’t know much about it) I’ve had a few clothing items that I bought literally in high school from fast fashion places that I still wear and that look fine. And I wash pretty much everything on a high heat sanitization cycle.

I just can’t imagine much quality research would have been done on this because what kind of scholarly breakthrough is that going to lead to? Who do you imagine is paying to do this research? Best case scenario would be a clothing company pays to do the research, but 1. That increases the chance that they are aiming to get a specific answer from the study (bad research) and 2. Quality of clothing as it relates to price has endless relevant factors and permutations, how do you truly study that even if there was someone who cared to?

We all know anecdotally that generally speaking things made better will last longer, and that there is often a relationship associated with cost and how well things are made. But it’s so case by case, there are exceptions, this just seems impossible to get a definitive answer on. You may be able to find actual data about the durability of specific materials, and then buy based on materials used vs brands.

I need to post a picture of a stone I use as a doorstopper in the garden shed Builtforlife my ass