Millers

Capitalism at its finest.  A store is puttering along.  Gets bought out.  Parent company goes bust.  Takes a whole bunch of brands with it.  

And so ends Millers.  And Katies and a heap of others.

Not that I shopped at Millers much.  I don't shop anywhere much for clothes.  I HATE having to buy clothes.  It's a painful process, sometimes ends in tears, and almost never leaves me with clothes I actually like or look good in.

Twenty five years ago, Millers used to sell plain-dyed tshirts.  They had them in a big variety of colours and I had a lot of them.  

I still have them.  All of them.  They're practically threadbare now - really thin fabric, and some of the seams have gone but they're still hanging in there.  I wear them as my "winter" tshirts - under jumpers - because after twenty five years deodorant stains are a thing.

I took this photo in 2018 and resized it for my blog back then, when I was still only doing 400 pixel photos

Millers tshirts

Millers stopped selling those thsirts years and years ago.  I was super annoyed that I couldn't get them anymore.  They were made in Australia, only like $13 at the time.

And did I mention how well they've lasted?

My theory is they stopped selling them because noone was buying them.  Because people didn't need to buy any more of them once they had them because they lasted so well.

But here's the thing.

After twenty five years, the collars on them are still intact (ok this photo was taken in 2022 but nothing's changed)

Millers collars

Nowadays if you buy a tshirt you'll be lucky to get a couple of wears out of it before the collars go crinkly.  The one I got at Target last year - maybe six washes.  The one I got at Target last week - literally one wear/wash.  WTF??  Target used to be good.  Now it's utter TRASH.

The whole world has been enshittified.

Sigh.

All the Millers tshirts