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by mncharity 1177 days ago
> hoping that the pants of my desires will appear in a shop somewhere

An early-web startup did custom-cut khakis. CNC cut, manually stitched in one of the last US factories doing such, and overnighted. Acquired by bigco, and death by mismanagement. Patents should be expired now, so perhaps progress can resume?