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There are some garment making processes that can be automated most or all the way through, like knitwear and socks, but most will still be finished, assembled and/or packed by hand. Crochet is always human work.
Wool is pretty good to wear and when certified and from a good source, can be pretty sustainable if you wear it until it stops existing. This can take decades. Yarn can be recycled, mending is great!
There are fabric recycling initiatives, but the best option is to not buy it if you don't need it. Secondhand is more expensive than it used to be, but you can find older, better quality garments than the crap of today!

sabik
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
Probably a lot more garment making processes could be automated, but underpaid labour is cheaper

Sini Tuulia
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@sabik@rants.au It's definitely cheaper, but also making fitted clothing out of floppy and not-uniform materials, joined with other floppy and not uniform material, is pretty hard to automate unless you come up with a series of robots with very dextrous digits with sensory apparatus for texture, shrink, elasticity and weight. Honestly the optical sensors to track where each piece and edge is would be the easiest part.
Funnily enough you can 3D-print weird garments (I doubt they're comfy), and programmable knitting machines have been a thing for centuries! But sewing is VERY complicated to do well.

sabik
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
Much like knitting machines keep hold of each stitch separately, a sewing robot would probably keep hold of each piece of the fabric throughout, I suspect