What it costs to make
Work shirt, $148, line by line.
Published because the number at the bottom is the one everybody assumes is far larger, and because we cannot ask people to trust a price without showing them what is inside it.
Cloth
$34
Trims — buttons, thread, labels
$7
Cutting and sewing, in the room behind the shop
$42
Pattern and grading, amortised
$6
Rent, power, and the machines
$21
Wages other than sewing
$19
What is left
$19
The other eight garments break down in roughly the same proportions. The wool overshirt has a larger cloth line and a smaller sewing one; the tee is the reverse.
Figures are examples pending confirmation. We sew locally and can prove that; we make no broader claim than that, by instruction.