HOW CAN YOU TELL IF YOUR CLOTHES ARE GOOD QUALITY?

Quality is what everyone wants in their clothing. If only it was easy to define what quality clothing is these days. Quality might appear to boil down to construction and cloth. But which cloth? Does it matter where a garment is made, or by whom? And are these really factors worth paying more for?

A quality assessment now goes beyond the garment itself to include where, how and the conditions in which your new purchase was made too. What does it say of a new suit, for example, that it was made in China, and not a specific post code in London?At a time when society is producing more clothes that at any point in human history, you have to assume that much of the surplus is sub-par, or at least made from cheaper fabrics in parts of the world where labour costs less. And not every brand is going to be forthcoming on matters of supply chains or mark-ups. True quality assessment, in other words, makes more demands of you to do your own investigations.