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The poor would typically make their own clothes. This was of course very labor intensive, but back in the day, benefits from division of labor weren’t that huge
by xyzzyz 5y ago
The poor would typically make their own clothes. This was of course very labor intensive, but back in the day, benefits from division of labor weren’t that huge, and the poor often did not have better employment opportunities (that’s why they were poor in the first place).
- ajuc 5y ago90%+ worked in farming, and in farming depending on the climate over the year you had months with nothing to do vs months with 16 hours of work a day. The whole system was designed around making sure few people starved and work was distributed around somewhat sensibly with such wild seasonal swings of labour shortage and surplus. So yeah, DIY all the way.
- burntoutfire 5y agoYep. My grandmother's family in rural Poland was still making all their their clothes (from their homegrown linen and sheep) in 1930s.