Women’s/girls’ clothing also seems of worse quality on average than men’s/boys’. I suppose this is just another form of the pink tax, but I’ve learned a few ways to make items last a little longer over the years. I’ll share them in the hope it brings you, the comrade reading this, the information you need to keep your favorite garment in rotation longer.

Learn to sew buttons back on and keep the tools on hand to do so. Wrap the thread around the underside of the button a few times once you’ve sewn it on before tying off to add some extra strength to the threads holding it on.

Washing machines are rough on clothes. Buy large lingerie bags to put anything delicate in. If your washer likes to eat the drawstrings of your sweatpants? Bag 'em. If your long johns keep getting tangled up with other garments and stretching out? Bag 'em. They’re also really nice at keeping my socks from getting lost in the wash.

And this one isn’t so much a durability tip, so much as it is a buying one, but if you aren’t looking at what fibers the garment is made of, you should be. Natural fibers breathe better and feel better on the skin than synthetics. I think there are some hi-tech synthetics that are better now but cotton beats the shit out of polyester and acrylic in every metric I care about.