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https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-lesson-in.html https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... "So, 7 hours for sew

https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-lesson-in.html https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... "So, 7 hours for sewing, 72 for weaving, 500 for spinning, or 579 hours total to make one shirt. At minimum wage - $7.25 an hour - that shirt would cost $4,197.25. And that's just a standard shirt. And that's not counting the work that goes into raising sheep or growing cotton and then making the fiber fit for weaving." https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-spin-me-right-round/ https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t... > Put into working terms, the basic clothing of our six person farming family requires 7.35 labor hours per day, every day of the year. Our ‘comfort’ level requires 22.05 hours (obviously not done by one person). These figures come way down once we get the spinning wheel and horizontal loom, but what seems fairly readily apparently is that women did not necessarily work less so much as produce more, selling the excess via the ‘putting out’ system we mentioned last time and using that to support their families.

Retric 5y ago
That’s quite regional and within a fairly narrow window. “Between 1315 and 1545 and cloth produced per capita increased five-fold (the English population declined during the period due to the Black Death).” https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-spin-me-right-round/ https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t... A lot of artwork is post spinning wheel which dramatically changed the economics of owning cloth. This gets into some major differences over time. Leather or nothing used to be very common clothing choices globally. It’s only relatively recently that cloth has become so ubiquitous.
- matkoniecz 5y ago
  > That’s quite regional AFAIK this was very similar worldwide > and within a fairly narrow window. it applies for entire timespan since cloth weaving was invented till invention of spinning wheel and other that came really late. For most of human history it applied.

Retric 5y ago

That’s quite regional and within a fairly narrow window. “Between 1315 and 1545 and cloth produced per capita increased five-fold (the English population declined during the period due to the Black Death).” https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-spin-me-right-round/ https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t... A lot of artwork is post spinning wheel which dramatically changed the economics of owning cloth. This gets into some major differences over time. Leather or nothing used to be very common clothing choices globally. It’s only relatively recently that cloth has become so ubiquitous.

matkoniecz 5y ago
> That’s quite regional AFAIK this was very similar worldwide > and within a fairly narrow window. it applies for entire timespan since cloth weaving was invented till invention of spinning wheel and other that came really late. For most of human history it applied.