@ibstubro: I shop at Lands End, usually online but sometimes from the store. Another option is you can look at the item in the store and then check the price online until it goes on sale or even better, post-season clearance. You can also sign up for their email discounts, and wait for a 30% or more discount and when you shop from them, they also send coupons in the box. So between all that, if you lurk you get good quality at cheap prices. If you hit the store (Sears has Lands End), you may find different sales and clearances. Also, with Lands End, anything you change your mind on or doesn’t fit, you can return to a Sears store.
I’ll go online and check prices for winter clearance in January or February, or bathing suits in September or October, and I get great stuff at incredible prices. Free shipping with a certain minimum order, which is nice.
Lands End online also has a business section, where you can get polos, sweaters and all kinds of stuff for work, including tote bags. My job orders clothes for us from there. Not sure about the prices as I don’t do the ordering for work. I know we recently got some tote bags with logo embroidered and I heard they were very cheap.
I’ll also buy stuff at Walmart. Certain things if the price is right (if I’m buying cheap stuff, I want cheap prices, and I know what the price should be). If I buy a cheap shirt for 10 or 12 bucks, I don’t expect it to last more than one or two seasons. I would be replacing my shirts anyway, as any clothing item will fade, get stains, whatever and start looking shabby so I don’t mind only having it one or two years at that price. Again, I want to emphasize that I usually don’t put clothes in the dryer. When someone compliments my shirts, which they often do, I’ll tell them it’s from Walmart. I wore a green one the other day with a pearl necklace and I got a lot of compliments on the green. I’ll try to link it to show an example.