We lived in a university town and college kids throw out a lot of good clothes because a button is missing or a hem is just not right or it does fit to suit them. Many with the store tags still on them.
Our kids dressed in fine fashion in the latest clothes at about a tenth of the price in the department stores or less. They never complained.
Ironically, as adults, our kids still shop at the same Thrift Store for their clothes now. They're mom taught them well.
Taught mine to sew and took a sewing machine when they left home.