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It's not like tailors have their own looms, they're buying fabric same as everyone else. The value-add is that a tailor can do alterations or made-to-order clot
by Spivak 3y ago
It's not like tailors have their own looms, they're buying fabric same as everyone else. The value-add is that a tailor can do alterations or made-to-order clothes.
Even "industrialized" clothing relies on humans to do most of the joining work so the pricing advantage isn't as big if we actually cracked down on labor exploitation. We won't but a girl can dream, right?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThat kind of cloth manufacturing isn't really scalable. So clothes would be a lot more expensive, even by western standards, and even considering how labor would be much cheaper in those countries.