"my next 10 T-shirts" reminds me of this fascinating podcast about the history of textiles. https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-the-fabr

"my next 10 T-shirts" reminds me of this fascinating podcast about the history of textiles. https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-the-fabric-of-civilization/ https://www.econtalk.org/virginia-postrel-on-textiles-and-th... The fastest spinners in the world used to take 13 days 8hrs a day of labor to spin enough thread to make one pair of jeans. A 200 thread count bed sheet would take 59 days. And neither of those include the time turning that thread into fabric.