I tried that. Turns out that the expensive clothing I found wasn't high quality. I don't know how tell quality from the online description.

That's the trap I described, it's really hard to tell since price is not a good signal.

To me it was trial and error, recommendations, and shopping at physical stores, and like I mentioned as well: it's time-consuming, frustrating, and I wouldn't expect a person not interested in this quest to be able to find good quality items consistently.