The men’s department: sometimes it seems two out of every three items are “Slim” or “Athletic” fit. You look around and observe two thirds of the customers are neither.
Keep in mind that the retail price of clothing is perhaps four or five times the manufacturing cost, so trousers retailing for a hundred dollars have, perhaps, twenty bucks in labor and materials in them. I think the only way that’s possible is if the clothing is sewn in a country with low labor costs. An overseas sweatshop in other words. I am willing to pay more to ensure that the employees were not being exploited.
And here is a gift link to a favorite article of mine; a sixteen-year-old one that explains in detail how a pair of cotton trousers sell for $550; four hours of labor in a unionized factory in Brooklyn, two yards of fabric at $24 per yard and so on.
Some of the expensive stuff in stores seems much the same as the cheap stuff and the high price mostly because of the designer label but if there’s a real difference, it may be worth paying more.