the gap: quality-----

many years ago, i was overjoyed to discover that jeans from the gap actually fit me well. i currently have two pairs of size 10 gap jeans that i wore a LOT, until i started gaining weight a few years ago. at some point i bought one pair in size 12 and one in 14 (i was a size 14 at the time), and i ended up wearing them both out, but it took at least a year. so now here i was needing to buy new jeans again, because i am still far from being able to fit into the 10s again (which are still in great shape)... so i bought a new pair about 1.5 months ago. i noted that the denim was quite thin and not very soft/smooth. now, after not even wearing them all that much, they are ALREADY FALLING APART. there is a hole starting in the ass, and one of the cuffs is disattaching. boo.

i plan to take them back and complain, as these jeans are even lower quality than the old navy ones i bought when gap was out of stock in my size and i needed new pants pronto. isn't gap supposed to be kind of upscale? aren't they supposed to be higher quality than old navy? i mean, they're the same company, right, with banana republic at the top of the chain? is it not reasonable to expect a pair of $60 jeans to last more than two months, or is everything really that disposable these days? i actually overheard some young girl talking in the breakroom at work about clothing, and saying that she buys tops expecting to only wear them a few times before they fall apart. WTF?! is this the kind of disposable consumer society we live in now, when clothes fall apart faster than the fashions change?

where do you buy quality clothing? and who wants to help me get on 'what not to wear'?