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Imagine comparing wood and carpentry to fabric. Quality is wood sourced from trees, which take decades to grow and often hard to find. Modern fabrics are not even hand woven. They're all machine made (even wool sweaters), whether they're used in a 5000 dollar outfit or 50 dollar outfit. The "original" cuts are cut using templates that can be easily replicated. All the clothes are stitched on high speed sewing machines with jigs and templates attached to it that any Bangladeshi child laborer can do. There's next to no craftsmanship required in modern clothes manufacturing.
As for the original patterns, again, it's not fucking rocket science. You aren't spending 100s of millions of dollars and decades on R&D. You're making clothes. All the R&D has been around for 1000s of years. There isn't much left to invent in clothing. The only R&D that could be required is in the fabric weaving and the material manufacturing stage (which is usually some variant of plastic). But that's the job of the milling company, not the clothes manufacturer or the designer.
