I received an email yesterday, asking me the point in purchasing expensive work wear. The lady sending the email, while quite rude, had an interesting point. She suggested for the same price as a pair of Snickers work pants, for example, she could buy at least three pairs of jeans from the supermarket. So what is the difference between quality work wear and cheap jeans?
Looking at this objectively, I can see both sides have there valid points. From the work wear side they see it as false economy to buy something thats not going to last. For the jeans for work crowd, they see brands such as Snickers work wear, to expensive to just get covered in paint, oil and dirt.
This dilemma reminds me of my granddad, he was a plasterer for over fifty years. Rather than buying a decent heavy duty drill to mix his mortar, hed always buy some cheap domestic drill that burnt out in about 6 months. Hes retired now. But it makes you wonder; if he had spent say 300 pounds on a good quality mixing drill, would he have ended up better off.
Anyway, back to work wear.
For this article Im going to use the Snickers Workwear 3212 DuraTwill Trousers as an example of the high...