@llwynog @goatsarah
I have the same experience when it comes to clothes and textiles from the parents' or grandparents' generation:
clearing out my parents' house I remember handling old clothes (coats, blouses, shoes, gloves and scarves), and the realization on the first touch:
"Wow, this such a great, thick and built-to-last quality of textile!"
This was clothing that was 50 to 80 years old.
I wasnt used to feeling that kind of quality in my clothes lifetime. Mindboggling. Sad.