Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by qris 1920 days ago
This is enormously informative (and also long) article.

It reminds me about shorter one https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-... containing following calculation:

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.