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The only clothing item I buy for durability is boots. All the rest of my clothes are the cheapest possible shit I can find, because it doesn't matter.
No one on earth can convince me a $60 pair of jeans is worth $60.
$60 has the same buying power thar $30 did just 15 years ago so it might be more helpful to think in living wage hours (where 50 hours of work pays for rent).
In 2025 average rent is $1650. So a living wage after taxes would be $33. In 2010 it was $890 which means a living wage was $17.
There isn't one living wage. It varies greatly by location, and so do wages. However, there isn't any location that consistently pays living wages.
$60 on used denim will go much further.
Learn to identify higher quality vintage denim and you've begun profiting. Old selvedge will last a lifetime properly cared for, newer denin barely lasts me a couple years with all the spandex in it.
Frankly, just learn to identify vintage denim at all. People have the mistaken idea that everything used to be better quality than now, and that was never true, there has always been bad and good quality stuff. BUT, the thing about buying older stuff (vintage clothing, antique furniture, old tools, etc.) is that if it was bad quality stuff that wouldn't last, it wouldn't be here now to begin with.