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The Slowest Fashion Wins

29 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from the YouTube video 'The Slowest Fashion Wins', speakers discuss the extensive labor required to produce a hand‑embroidered garment. Speaker B explains that each embroidered section of the garment takes about three days of hand work, and there are multiple sections (front panel, sleeves, and two halves of the back). Adding three days for assembly, the total labor per finished piece amounts to roughly nine days of constant work. Speaker A reacts with amazement, noting that the intense labor is the reason for the garment's beauty and value.

So how long does it take for a piece like this level of embroidery? Like, how much time is he going to spend on one piece to do all this work?
About 3 days.
3 days.
He's basically filling in all the gaps from machine. So this is half of the garment. Uh, there's another half of the garment. So this is just part of it. And then there's also the front panel and the sleeves that is not on this right now. So it's 3 days there and then 3 days here. And then the other one is also 3 days there and 3 days here.
So 3 days and 3 days just on embroidery, and then another 3 days to assemble the garment itself. So 9 days total for one piece of constant labor.
Yes.
That is insane. That's crazy. But that's why it's so beautiful.
It is. I understood. It's very intricate.