This whole thing is just honestly confusing to me. Is Canada just totally different than the US in this regard? I bought a pair of dress pants for work for $33 last month to replace a pair that is over three years old, and the only reason I had to replace it at all was because I lost a significant amount of weight and it was a design that couldn't accommodate that. The pants I'm wearing right now are also three years old and in perfect shape still. The shirt I'm wearing right now is over seven years old and not showing any signs of wear. I can think of at least four or five stores off the top of my head that have local stores where I could easily find quality replacements for anything.
I've discarded more clothes due to either size changes or changes in style/taste than true wear and tear. The last clothing items in my house to really start wearing out:
1. A hand me down baby sleeper that ripped on the seam. Fabric was too fragile to sew back up and it was free anyway, so forget it.
2. My husband's shoes. He's got an exotic shoe size, the only shoe that works is poor quality, and he just wears through multiple pairs a year.
3. My husband's winter coat is wearing out at the lower back from the fricton of his backpack, but I think we'll get a couple more years out of it.
4. My husband's Lands End pants that sprang holes. I just switched him to Duluth Trading pants.
5. Pantyhose, but I don't think you can expect fragile gauze hosiery to last under any circumstances.
6. My bras. Eventually the elastic wears and they lack the ability to hold things up properly.
The only clothes I can remember really killing dead before that were a couple Talbots cashmere cardigans, but shitty Chinese cashmere is shitty Chinese cashmere and it wears out on my husband too, which is part of why I no longer buy it. When I wore pants, I could wear through the inner thighs on a pair of jeans in a year, but my thighs rubbed together, which I think is less common in men anyway. But I never owned more than one pair of jeans at a go and I was wearing them 3+ times a week.
Higher quality clothing tends to feel nicer (ime Gap t-shirts tend to be softer than Old Navy, for instance), but really cheap stuff can last a surprisingly long time. I still am wearing Old Navy flannel PJ pants from high school and I graduated a decade ago.