> Popular high-quality brands include Levi Strauss & Co
I regards that as highly suspect advice.
I stopped buying jeans because even name brand jeans weren't durable.
Another quick quack finds https://www.thebubble.org.uk/culture/the-decline-of-quality-... saying "A recent experiment demonstrates this decline in quality over the last 30 years, through testing Levi’s jeans, whose slogan states (ironically) that ‘Quality never goes out of style’ . Two pairs of Levi’s jeans were put to the test – a pair manufactured between 1985 and 2000, and a pair manufactured between 2017 and 2018. The experiment found that the older jeans were stronger and wore less quickly than the newer ones, even through the fabric was much older."
It links to https://thecorrespondent.com/416/fashion-unravelled-why-you-... which adds "Even high-end brands sometimes seem like they don’t last much more than one season."
Ha. And "The most expensive pair seemed to be primarily intended for people who value style more than sustainability."
Disgusting.