When I was a kid, my shirts lasted a decade.
When I was a teenager, my shirts lasted ~5 years.
When I was a young adult, my shirts lasted 2 years, at most.
In the last 20 years, I’ve had 1 shirt last an appreciable amount of time, and that company is no longer in business.
What the hell good is mending when the shirt is already 25% of the quality it was back when we actually mended stuff?
You went an entire decade as a kid without growing out of them?
Maybe you just got rougher on shirts over the years.....
Except for the fact that when I was a kid, I outgrew my shirts before they got to be much over a year old, I can relate as to how they have made things a lot more cheaply than at one time....I make clothes last a long time...I have a down filled jacket I bought at Myrtle Beach in ‘75 that’s still in good shape...of course I haven’t been stationed or lived in any places with long hard Winters over the years....almost time to buy some more T-Shirts as the ones I have are showing their age.
Learned to do some minor sewing as a 12 year old and find myself breaking out thread an needle a few times a year...amazing it’s too complicated for so many these days.
Duluth Trading Co. makes some really tough clothing.