youtu.be/SxMBhncKV9s?...

"Can you read and write?” Jord asked him. “Yes, of course,” said Damen. Then stopped."

I can't with how much Damen lets slip all the time... I bet it drove Laurent crazy like, are you even trying? 🤨

Iirc Abby Cox has several YT videos on this topic if you wanna learn real life clothing economics throughout Western history haha

This applied to all levels of society. Details would change ofc but in general this is somehow it worked for many centuries. Cloth was expensive but labor was cheap so someone might splurge on high quality fabric and get a decent tailor for cheap to make the clothes +

A cloth merchant might work closely with a tailor but elgenerally not so much. In general in pre-industrial European/Western society: a customer would go to a local cloth merchant and purchase cloth, then take it to a tailor who would do the drafting, fitting, making of the garment +