In theory the Really Expensive Brand might actually last long enough to be worth the price tag, but it’s too expensive to find out, especially if you’ve already wasted your money on the Medium Brand.
That's demoralizing, especially since my experience with trying various brands suggests that if I wanted Really Expensive Jeans, I'd have to get them either bespoke or heavily tailored and that's Really Expensively right out.
I don’t know if it was ever thus, or if this is the result of companies with a good reputation based on past performance falling under new management who decide to coast on the name while cutting corners in the actual manufacture
I don't know, but it did not escape my notice that the previous pair of jeans of this brand lasted ten years before shredding through at the knees (prompting the purchase of the three pairs, which I figured would cover me for decades) and I was still wearing the cutoffs at the beach last summer. I don't like it.
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That's demoralizing, especially since my experience with trying various brands suggests that if I wanted Really Expensive Jeans, I'd have to get them either bespoke or heavily tailored and that's Really Expensively right out.
I don’t know if it was ever thus, or if this is the result of companies with a good reputation based on past performance falling under new management who decide to coast on the name while cutting corners in the actual manufacture
I don't know, but it did not escape my notice that the previous pair of jeans of this brand lasted ten years before shredding through at the knees (prompting the purchase of the three pairs, which I figured would cover me for decades) and I was still wearing the cutoffs at the beach last summer. I don't like it.