#there's a sweet spot. right in the middle. where large amounts of the tedious seam-sewing can be automated but durability isn't sacrificed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

prince--kiriona · 1 month ago

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fashion discourse on this site drives me insane because on one side you have liberals going "we need to Retvrn to the time when every single garment was handmade by tailors hand sewing every stitch and you should all pay 400$ for a dress." and on the other side you have marxists going "industrialisation and the accessibility of fashion is Not A Bad Thing what are you on about. it's actually fine that a blazer costs 20$" and like.... the second group is *closer* to being correct, obviously, but also. the first group isn't wrong when they say that current mass-produced fashion is by and large Terrible and some hand sewing should be brought back into it??

#i can elaborate on this if needed (it is also. 2am here. so apologies for inconsistencies.) but short version:#there are Still some things you can do with hand sewing that. straight up are not possible with a machine. mostly edge finishing techniques #and those techniques are what actually make clothes Strong and Durable. without them clothes fall apart faster and are harder to fix #so yes a lot of clothing can be made at a very high level of automation... but past a certain point the higher you go the worse it gets #there's a sweet spot. right in the middle. where large amounts of the tedious seam-sewing can be automated but durability isn't sacrificed #and i don't think people are wrong when they point out that #removing hand-sewing from fashion has effectively instituted apple-style planned obsolescence for our clothes #rose petals

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