The North Face used to have a factory shop down in Port Glasgow. Brilliant, totally brilliant sale events twice a year. I used to regularly spend two or three hundred pounds and came home with six or seven black binbags full of excellent kit.
Now it's carp, yet the stuff I bought then is still sound, still in use. Some just wore done beyond repair, but I worked hard in it, the boys climbed, etc., in it. It doesn't owe me a ha'penny.
Son2 bought a new jacket and fleece last year and it's been one niggling snag after another. The quality and design just isn't there anymore :sigh: