True, but if you see it as an expression of art/culture and reinstate this mentioned mindset of buying quality clothes, one can recapture the beauty of it. If I had more money, time, events to be at and a safe neigborhood, I would 100% invest in rather fancy, traditional clothes from the part of Europe I come from.
Beauty is an expression of rebellion in ugly times after all...
The vast majority of my clotches are hand-me-downs from relatives