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For a mechanized process with no customization; the fucking lack of standards is really maddening.
Just ordering on Amazon the same product in the same size with the same material, but you want a different color. Turns out the size is all fucked up, it’s not even the same material. But it’s a different color.
Maybe it has pockets where the origibal didnt! Maybe it doesnt where the original did! Who can say?
What makes you think it's so mechanised? Material is often cut on bandsaw in stacks inches thick, they're sewn on machine, sure, but manually controlled by a human. Different designers, different factories, different QA levels.
Okay, thats fair, but it's way less fun to say 'corporatized and taylorized'
Ha, my point was more that the bandsaw wasn't tracking straight so all the blanks on the bottom are bigger, the seamstress runs a hem 10mm (more or less) from the edge so the dimension remains out and the QA guy couldn't give a fuck because it's 8:30 on a Friday night and he's been working 21 days straight.
Even the same garment is going to have a different size in different countries, large in Italy, medium in UK etc etc. the real size is somewhere in between, but no one makes that level of granularity.
You should watch some of these garments being made, it's mind blowing.
Cutting blanks and this is a tame/slow process Vs some other factories I've seen on the tube.
See, regional differences that i can fix with a conversion chart im fine with. That's just more sizes. As long as they're printed.