So I’m sick of supporting fast fashion and could really use some new clothes, especially jeans. I was inspired by the work wear post earlier however I think all the recommendations were US based which aren’t that useful for me in the UK. Any suggestions for brands or shops where I can get something which will last? I don’t mind paying significantly more for good quality if it’s actually good and not just a brand logo.
Tilley Endurables is a Canadian company that was owned by a company in the UK for awhile and is now back in Canada. They are famous for their hats, and they used to have a no-questions-asked, pretty much unqualified lifetime replacement guarantee on (some of) their clothes and actually challenged their customers to find ways to try to wreck them in actual use, with the washing instructions famously being “give them hell”. But that’s all been enshittified to the point that most of their stuff isn’t guaranteed anymore and even the stuff that is, is effectively only guaranteed for meaningless “normal wear and tear and defects” nowadays. In my experience they’re still pretty decent quality and very rugged, or at least they were when I last bought them. Although I don’t have a ton of confidence that they’ve stayed that way or will continue to, they still seem to be from what I can tell.