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Maxpedition makes classically sturdy and reliable bags and pouches. Has the tactical look, but you might find something that fits your style.
I went through a phase of only buying MILSPEC rated gear. My watch is nearly 20 years old and never changed the battery or set the time. It sets the time from the atomic clock every night and charges from solar. Casio G-Shock.
Took some scrolling to find it lol - https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.MTG-M900DA-8/
I buy op shop clothes almost exclusively, shit made in the 90s that has decent stitching and wasn’t made to last just one season (though the flood of HM, UNIQLO, Zara stuff doesn’t stop. I used to volunteer too when I was unemployed and we’d toss bagfuls daily). I’m gunna learn how to darn cos yeh, going through a pair of socks a month is unsustainable.
Darning is super easy to do at an “ugly but functional” level, and then it does seem to reward the extra effort of getting skilled and creative quite well with all those neat patching styles (though I’m still in the ugly but functional stage).
Workwear tends to hold up pretty good if you don’t mind looking like a contractor or lumberperson
Some of it can be pretty nice looking too, I’ve got some nice shirts from Duluth that have held up for a while
The 1970s
I have a toaster from the Bundesrepublik, still works great. Don’t worry tho, I pair it with Oolong is from the PRC so the Hitler particles are neutralized in the stomach before entering the body proper.
Buy expensive things.
Many expensive things don’t hold up. They’re just a brand name or status symbol.
There’s also a trend of capitalist vultures buying up well-known and trusted brands and then squeezing them for all their worth by changing manufacturing to something much cheaper and lower quality and slapping the logo on it. Eventually this stops working because the brand loses caché.
I’ve had pricy clothes fall apart just as fast as cheap fast fashion. I thought I was buying quality but was misled and the workmanship was just as bad. Money isn’t necessarily correlated with quality anymore. Most of what’s being sold at a premium nowadays is brand identity. You’re advertising your place on the socioeconomic ladder, while the stitching or fabric isn’t really any less shitty.
Which gets me to your follow up comment:
Buy good expensive things.
Ok sure, like what?
Specific examples are what OP wants.
It depends on what she wants.
Framework makes good laptops. Anker makes good cables.
I’ve actually not had good luck with Anker overall.
My powerbank turned into a spicy pillow right after the one year mark.
My soundcore started having syncing problems after a couple years.
And the PD part of my power cube broke after a month. At least that one was still under warranty though.
For cables Anker has been good fwiw
I still feel like monoprice is my best option for cables though. A good balance between durability and price. But I know some hate them and call them cheap crap. I don’t buy their other stuff. Only the cables.
Maybe they’ve turned their act around, but the Framework Batch 11 laptop kept breaking down on me. I had a host of issues (motherboard died, touchpad was simultaneously loose and sticky, power management messes, bad heat management), After just two years, the keyboard failed, and they don’t actually sell replacement keyboards, despite the whole premise being that you’re supposed to be able to buy replacement parts.
