All Clothing is Handmade (2022 Article)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450515
https://ruthtillman.com/post/all-clothing-is-handmade/
Ruth Kitchin Tillman
All Clothing Is Handmade | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Writing about an art quilt I made with reused textiles and what I hope it reminds us about the clothing that we wear and the people who created it.
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Hacker News takes on clothing gotta be unhinged I’m so excited to read this
What I appreciate about this article is the recognition that there is a lot of complexity in garment manufacturing and that many components of the process are unlikely to be automated completely anytime soon.
The discussion of quality is an uninteresting one outside of the recognition of "it's all based on the choices of the person overseeing production". This is reductive, but a good callout that the labor is skilled enough to make Great Things even if they generally make Bad Things
I linked the hackernews comments because i like to get mad at idiots who talk about needing to sew their own underwear
ha ha ha ha hackernews
ok wait let me actually read it
Okay actually these comments are pretty tame
However this one was very funny:
"Mass-produced clothing is low quality when someone overseeing the project decided to make it low quality. Mass-produced clothing is high quality when someone overseeing the project decided to make it high quality." Now change "Mass-produced clothing" to "commercial software". Also the article is good and hits on a convo I feel like we’ve had recently in here (actually maybe perpetually) With how often people will just snap evaluate a garment’s (or really any product’s) quality based on where it was made, with all the indirect racism that that implies It was also funny to see the comments say “I have never seen anyone think this” when it comes up like at least monthly in here
it's like whatever
yeah
pretty much exactly what you just said
it's interesting that this commenter seems to think that people can't be racist and also read articles. their definiton of a racist is some illiterate hick somewhere
A few years ago I got into the hobby of handmade leather goods, like wallets. One thing that struck me as I learned more about the process was that I could with little training, make a higher quality, hand sewn wallet than even most luxury brands for less money by simply buying more expensive material. Indeed, the wallets I've made are still going strong.yeah but is it cute? I bet it looks like shit coming from a hacker news poster
As we all know, racists cannot read
skill fucking issue?????????????? I love buying clothes and food
Those are the comments that I expected it to be full of so I was pleasantly surprised tbh
I love buying clothes to get dressed in to go buy food
Also I wish the article explored a bit more the kinda psychological difference between custom clothes made by a friend or etc vs mass produced clothes
I mean it was fine it just got my brain thinking and wished it had more to chew on
HN should get stinky role
HN in my fashion discord??
90% of this discord is people who secretly lurk hn
Lurking on HN is ok,posting is not
if u post on HN then you should... i shouldn't say