It amazes me how cheap proper workwear is at Screwfix / Toolstation etc,
Depends on a great deal though. How well something might last and how well it might function are different issues.
I buy a lot of snickers workwear, especially their trousers. You pay a fair whack for them but they last and they’re really well thought out. They’ve spawned a lot of imitators though. Needing some shorts at short-notice I picked up some pretty similar looking Dewalt shorts for about £20 from Screwfix – as material and a list of features you’d think they’re pretty much the same. They were shit – wore them once then off to the charity shop. Although they have all the same pockets as the snickers ones, every thing falls out of the holster pockets and you can’t actually get your hands into any of the other ones. Its a feature of snickers stuff that if you put anything in the back pockets it doesn’t stab you in the arse when you sit down. Dewalt solves that by making the pockets so tight if you put anything in them you can’t sit down 🙂
Got a tshirt by them at the same time and I honestly can’t figure out how they got the cut so wrong – it fights with you when you move. With both garments it seemed like at no point during design, manufacture or distribution anyone had actually tried the stuff on.
So in some instances its not just the specification / materials / manufacture you’re paying for its the thought