Try Dockers. Garbage, at least their slippers. Needed a pair, went to Kohl’s, saw them on sale, bought. Stretched to about 2-3 sizes too big within a week, literally fell apart (sole split off the rest of the slipper) in less than a month.
Vaguely recall an episode from an old teevee show (fiicr which, though) where someone was able to get beautiful shoes for heavily discounted prices. Anyone who bought ’em had the shoes self-destruct in no time at all. Turned out the shoes were geared towards morticians to put on stiffs, and the glue didn’t stand up too well to body heat from anyone still living.
That’s what those Dockers were like. Oh, beautiful high-quality-looking boxes, but garbage product inside.
Only brands I can “root for” (because they haven’t turned into garbage yet) are for shirts: Carhartt, Sonoma, and Eddie Bauer. Tough, soft, and a-little-of-both, respectively. Don’t recall ever having any actually wear out.
One from Apt 9 eventually stretched from a teeshirt into a dress with plunging neckline. Lost all elasticity. And either Cherokee and/or Jerzeez (forgot which) basically self-destructed after less than a year of ~1day/week wear.
I noticed a bunch of shirts from Port Something. Got some artwork shirts from Amazon from them, got a few regular unadorned teeshirts from ’em. Not sure which brand it is, but one just developed a hole in the underarm. Hope it ain’t that one, as I got a bunch of ’em.
Sox and unnerwear, generally trash that doesn’t last terribly long. “Denim” jeans, I already went into my tirade about those. Belts? Oh, man, got one POS from Kohl’s, reversible, leather held into the buckle by 2 eyeglass-screws, essentially. Leather was brittle, which bent, and later literally cracked. Garbage, garbage, garbage.
Got one now that’s non-reversible, that looks to be decent quality, also from Kohl’s in the same batch, but hopefully a different mfr.
Jackets, I do like Columbia and North Face. Got a RainForest that I quite like, too.
Backpacks, JanSport. They do tend to last forever, and I might put their “lifetime guarantee” to the test, as I washed mine in scalding hot water (as I do all my clothes) and the waterproof “skin” inside peeled off. My bad, but let’s see what they do. 
Best boots I ever got? Cheap-ass “Vietnam Jungle Boots” from Sportsman’s Guide. Good Lord, they lasted ’til well after I wore down the soles to slicks. Looked like Hell with some kind of mesh uppers and leather toe-caps that eventually peeled the coloring, but they lasted nigh forever. Couldn’t kill those things except by sheer mileage. Went up to a size bigger, stuck in innersoles for summer, thick sox for winter. All-year wear. Nice deep tread so you could walk up the side of a tree if so inclined.
Reminds me, should get a coupla more pair…
