A Day on the Quality Line

Check eleven is my favourite: waistband recovery. A machine stretches the waistband a few hundred times and measures whether it returns home. Most brands never test it. It's why their garments loosen into shapelessness by the third month.

The line isn't glamorous — chalk marks, calibrated pull-tests, a wash log thicker than a novel. But watch a pair fail at check nineteen and go back, and you understand the label differently.

Quality isn't a department here. It's twenty-five small refusals to let something slide.