> This is fairly bullshitty and something I question as to being real. My immigrant family has always bought cheap shit. $30 shoes from DSW or wherever lasted a

> This is fairly bullshitty and something I question as to being real. My immigrant family has always bought cheap shit. $30 shoes from DSW or wherever lasted a long time. Lasted a long time doing what? Doing farm work every day will wear out shoes a lot faster than just walking around in the streets. > There's simply not a price/durability relationship in fashion. You need a certain minimum price to get a certain minimum quality, simply for materials expenses. Stuff can't get cheaper than that, even if there's nothing stopping you from slapping a "premium!" sticker on it and selling it for ten times as much as it's worth. > Of course leather boots last longer Leather boots can last longer. You can have crappy worksmanship with leather boots too – sure, the leather will last forever, but if it's poorly done, it'll fall apart after a year or five anyway. It's not just boots, anyway. Computers (Thinkpads and Macbooks last forever, you don't hear anyone saying that about the $200 notebooks off Walmart), appliances (a good washing machine can survive their owner while a cheap won't last 10 years), …