With clothing, you get what you pay for up to a certain level. Ridiculous $10,000 shirts are ridiculous. But I did a fun experiment with my son’s school red cotton polo shirts. I bought one of the uniform kind, the cheap ones you get at cheap department stores made to be low cost for people buying uniforms. I bought a few Lands End shirts. And a few from Ralph Lauren. With the pony.
He wore the heck out of these shirts from September to June. Well, most of them, anyway. By February, the cheap uniform shirt was light pink with fraying hem, and it had shrunk to where he could no longer wear it. Trash. In June, the Lands End shirts were light red, a nice even fade, and they had shrunk a bit and lost some of their shape. But they did serviceably well all year and they weren’t costly. No frays or rips. I was not surprised that the Ralph Lauren polos made it, but the bright red color had not even faded a little. They had their shape and had not noticeably shrunk at all! I honestly thought I was “paying for the pony” logo but it turns out they truly were better made and used better dyes and better cotton. They lasted the next year as well until he outgrew them.
It is better to buy used from quality yard and estate sales or ebay, from good companies, and save money that way than to buy the cheap clothing from big box stores.
Salvation Army has great deals on used clothing. It is about the only place seniors can find clothing that does not look like a Street Walker was wearing it.