gah, really???

[knight3d]

People pay way way WAY too much for simple articles of clothing. Think how many children in Africa you could save by wearing off-brand clothing from Buffalo or wherever. No really, think in those terms.

P.S. I'm gonna pay >$50k for a new car.

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[relsqui]

I always get confused when people say that making clothes is cheaper than buying them. It made a little more sense when I realized two things:

1) I don't buy new clothes. Spending more than twenty bucks for a single article of clothing is luxurious to me.
2) I need to buy a lot more fabric to make a single article of clothing than most people do. Storebought clothes don't charge by size; homemade ones do. :)

That said, for people for whom neither of those things is true, making clothes is cheap (and fun and not terribly hard depending on what kind of stuff you want).

[knight3d]

huh. I'd never heard that making was cheaper than buying.
I think what would make making clothes expensive isn't the monetary investment, but the time investment.

[relsqui]

Well, yeah, there's that. You don't worry about that bit so much when you love doing it ; ) or when you're me and have all the time in the world to sell.