With clothing it's interesting that modern clothes basically just aren't repairable, the cotton quality is too low to do a great depression style mending for years on end to extend its life, the seams aren't sturdy enough, etc.
May 10, 2025 12:13By sheer coincidence, I'm wearing a T-shirt labelled with the year I bought it (the tour was summer 2000) which how I know I'm wearing a vintage tee in great condition. (Quality materials, or me washing my tees in cold water and never running them through a dryer?)
Yeah, I've noticed in recent year's women's shirts are tissue thin, and a few years ago I switched to men's cargo pants that actually had a decent weight to the fabric. Have bought very few clothes since I started working from home and I expect to stretch my wardrobe for a good long while.
In October I discovered one of my Halloween shirts had been damaged hanging in the storage closet (I'm thinking rat) and to fix it I got a patch of near-matching orange fabric to apply to the underside and got to try out this nifty Japanese "sesame seed" mending technique. A real learning experience
