To feel so disappointed in clothes shopping now compared to what it used to be like?

[mrsgreggspastry]

AIBU to think that there used to be far more choice and just more appealing clothes than there is now? Just everything, the fabrics, not something I pay much attention to normally, but now things just seem so thin and cheap looking. The colours, styles, choice, everything. I can remember going to the shops and really struggling to choose between so many lovely things. Now it's hard to find things I like at all.

I love good fabrics as much as anyone but I think we are too quick to dismiss cheaper fabric as crap quality. I have faux leather jeans, skirt etc that I live in, in Autumn and Winter and they still look great years later. On the other hand I can't stand anything linen, it looks so scruffy and creased especially trousers and skirts as soon as you sit down. I find I need the natural fabric on my top half anyway.
I can't believe that people can't find natural fibers though.
I went shopping with dc at the weekend and we went in H&M, Mango, Zara, River Island,
New Look, a couple of boutiques etc and there were lots of cotton, denim, linen, leather, even cashmere etc absolutely everywhere and I thought reasonably priced. I was quite surprised actually.
There's still a ton of shit that I struggle to imagine anyone buying but maybe the tide is turning.

But Infinite choice is only based whatever you’ve typed in. A shop gives you other ideas about clothes.
The internet is brilliant for tracking down clothes you know you like but hit or miss otherwise.

I don’t ‘type in’ any particular variety of clothes. Ever! How would that even work? Do you mean a random Google search? Eeeew …

I have a number (around fifty) of online shops that are currently brilliant saved on my Home Screen, and I browse through them regularly - looking at everything, or everything new if they have a huge amount of stock. If I fall in love with something I try to assess whether I need to buy at once or can think for longer and maybe see if the price reduces. (Once a place stops being brilliant I erase it.) So I’m constantly being shown new ideas.