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  • $\begingroup$ Exactly! I feel that real-world approaches add a lot of verisimilitude to a story. Consider what we typically pay for socks. Would anyone reading this spend 50 bucks on a single pair of socks? That hardly covers the price of the fleece used. Include time to card, spin, dye, knit, weave in, and block, and it'd be well over up in the thousands of dollars per handmade sock. Some might pay that for charity, and others for a prestigious maker's mark; but then they aren't really buying the socks, but rather the charity or mark. Nobody would buy a thousand buck handmade sock that's "just a sock". $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 12, 2021 at 21:24
  • $\begingroup$ ... and the above doesn't include costs like the space to make the socks in, the equipment used (carding combs, spinning wheel, dye and vats, needles, blocking mats & pins, and more I'm forgetting), or the training to learn those skills. $\endgroup$ Commented Jul 12, 2021 at 21:27