Clothing Price-Quality Debate

Maybe it's time to hit the brakes on selling overpriced sweatshop made clothes with a luxury brand slapped on top and a 2000x markup.

We are selling a similar hoodie with the same fabric, but different style treatments in boutique retail stores. These are stores that sell brands such as Cucinelli, Zegna, Brioni, Kiton. They have polo shirts that retail for upwards $450. Not for everyone, but it reflects the quality of fabrics, craftsmanship and design that we are able to obtain with our supply chain and mfr capabilities.

I have been thinking the same for a long time. Clothing these days are just branding, marketing as such. I don't want any of that. I want quality, decent materials.Like the article suggested, materials in clothing these days cost very little. I used to own two Ralf Lauren Polo Cotton T-Shirt. One Cost $200 the other $100, both were a sensation to wear. I still have them today and i love them. The problem is i got them as gift. I could never afford to buy them myself. I just wanted simple

Because the high price for name-brand clothes isn't necessarily for the quality, you are paying for the name.

What you are saying is sadly the reality today within most product categories.For example, go to a totally different category: clothing.In the great age of US sports clothing, tees were slowly knitted by machines called loopwheelers. E.g. tees from Champion.These days, they are crap. If you want a nice tee that will age well and last really long, you need to buy from some Japanese brands that try to imitate old Champion tees. The price is really high, and you'd most likely need to

Clothes is a big exception where higher price doesn’t mean higher quality. Just a more famous brand.

I have expensive shirts and cheap ones. Definitely a tangible difference in look and feel, but some of my most functional are a cheap range from uniqlo which don't need any ironing and use good cotton. Unfortunately you are usually paying for a double yoke. It's true that what we think of as designer brands in clothing tend to rebadge and sometimes the only value they add is some visual design element. It's a part of why we see a focus on 'the artisanal economy' - a logo

I like the "straight from the factory" idea. That said, I have two issues with this:1. Comparing prices with designer brands such as Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, and Burberry is disingenuous. Consumers are paying for much more than the physical product when they buy goods from those brands.Your real competitors are companies like Hanes, Gildan, Fruit of the Loom, perhaps even Uniqlo and American Apparel. All of these sell basic garments, of reasonable quality, at mostly reasonable prices.2.

From the article, I got impression that they are way better than most fast fashion brands and provide great value for reasonable price. If you can afford, on some principles there are better options.

A $4 pair of costco wool socks performs as well as $40 darn toughs.There's a youtube channel that visits Asian clothing manufacturing expos to get quotes. TLDR the difference between a disposable $10 shirt and durable $100 shirt is like $5 in material and labor. $20-$50 for a $100 jacket and $500 one. It is extremely cheap to make very high quality clothing now, brands just decided to segregate market and capture value according to durability, percieved or actual, and take disgusting mar