Globalism is why we have disintegrating clothing. My wife claims that most of her blouses last at most 2 washes. These aren't inexpensive junk. She buys mid-market labels like Liz and Alfred Dunner. There also are no size standards anymore, at least for women. Every single top in her closet is a different size.
On the other hand, I buy a lot of stuff at surplus stores. Most of my dress shirts were made for the USN thirty years ago. They still come out of the wash crisp, sharp and blinding white. If they ever wear out, I'll get some shirts made. Pants are trickier, but if you look hard you can still find ones made in the USA.
It's actually poor quality control on the part of the US company. As cotton prices and Chinese labor costs have gone up over the last couple of years, we've been seeing the American companies switching to "cheaper" factories in China (and there are so many, there is always a lower cost option) to try to hold costs down. The result is a big mess - garments that look like their patterns were made (and probably were) by first year students, terrible problems with fit, poor-quality fabrics on the finished product that don't match what we saw at the trade shows, and uneven sewing. The US companies, of course, try to deny that anything is wrong - but in the fashion business, one bad season and you are DONE. Nobody gives you a second chance.
The proper solution is for the US labels to stick with the better factories and pass the higher costs along to the retailer and consumer (The Obama Premium?), but they won't do that. The market behavior of the majority of Americans has proven convincingly that when it comes to apparel, price is the only thing that matters.