So, chewkw, how long do you imagine it takes to actually make a shirt by hand? There’s sourcing the materials, cloth, buttons, stiffeners, etc, marking out, cutting, stitching…
How much do you make an hour? Do you actually imagine that someone could make a shirt in half an hour, which they’d need to do to make any kind of profit, on £40, then consider a garage charges sixty-seventy quid an hour…
By hand? hmmm … going back to pre-industrial revolution? No one make a shirt entirely by hand apart from my mother when I was a kid. Even my mom used Singer sewing machine. My shirt had 4 pockets (2 top and 2 bottom) to carry sling shot (catapult), small rocks, marbles, and fishing lines and hooks.
Okay, hour cost is high here … oh well … death to British manufacturing if they don’t invest in machine. 😆
Mamnick – Made in England shirts from £70
Looks good but let’s see … cheers.