Honestly. Its much more time consuming to change one item professionally.
Then to make 1000s in a factory setting.
15 is less then 1/2 hour when 6ou take all th3 other costs of running a small business into account.
As another said. A 20quid shirt 8s perfect for learning to play yourself.
Don't do cloths myself. (Little interest.) I make cushions and bedding etc for my little boat.
But you can hand sew such things. Will take a good while. Or find a friend with a machine who is willing to let you learn. You never know you may find a new hobby.
If you live near South oxon. Pm me I may be willing to let you play with mine when I get back home.
Once you learn the basics of using a machine. Plenty of good books d youtube vids on clothing techniques. Plus other stuff. Their are 2 great subs on reddit. Hopefully they will federated soon. I should ask the mods if anyone is interested. I may be willing to run sewingforbeginers here.
Aren't British Problems first world problems by definition? Considering the sort of thing we post on here, or on the equivalent forum on The Site That Shall Not Be Named. I can't imagine, for example, many Syrians being bothered by the fact that their local Greggs has run out of vegan sausage rolls.
Same situation here. £40 to shorten the arms on a leather jacket I got for £50.
But that was a Vinted buy and worth way more, and the alteration will make the leather jacket more valuable to me because it'll fit me properly for life.
So I paid it without flinching or making a post about it.
I found a handheld sewing machine thing in Aldi a while ago for a tenner. I don’t know if something like that would do a good job of taking up a t-shirt, but maybe?
I actually have one of those (a JML thing I got for Christmas as a stocking filler, but I imagine the one in Aldi is made at the same Taiwanese plant). I might have a crack at doing one on a shirt I dont care that much about and see how it turns out. No harm, no foul I suppose.