• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No one was making clothes even before that. It was an extremely niche hobby. Just like gardening and home canning and countless other homestead-type skills. People just don’t have enough time to do all that and work a full time job and raise kids.

    In the old days when all of those skills were in full practice, people lived on literal homesteads and that stuff was their full time job. They also taught all their children how to help with it and basically ran the household like a small factory for producing food and clothing.