I’ll offer a mixed review for carhartt…while they used to be strictly workwear, they’ve started putting up retail spaces in designer clothing areas.

Carhartt and Carhartt Work in Progress are two different brands, the former is the good workwear one, the later is the designer fashionable stuff. Stick to their non WIP stuff

I've actually gone to Dickies and they feel as great as Carheart used to be, but it's too soon to tell yet

Slight correction: From my understanding, Solovair is the company that purchased the cobbling machinery/factory that DocMartens sold off when they fully off-shored. DocMartens then contracted with them for their limited release, price-inflated, Made in UK boots. As the designs are long out of patent, Solovair also manufactures their own. I see Docs at a 15% markup, just for the name.

I just got some Carhartt "wool" socks for Christmas. They are pilling like crazy after 1-2 wears/washes. They're less than half wool, so that might be the issue.

I do WFH and I don't wear shoes in the house,, but that's literally why I wanted wool socks.

Carhartt WIP is designer workwear, modern cuts and softer, higher quality materials that aren't designed to withstand harsh labor.

Carhartt standard is still classic workwear.

I've needed to use Carhartt standard recently and it's still good, relatively affordable and very durable workwear.