Yes, it makes sense to just buy clothes, just as it makes sense not to try to repair modern electronics when they fail.
It’s not 1890 or 1920 or 1950 or 1980 anymore.
As long as people still acquire & maintain skills that can provide for their needs that's fine. It could become 1890 again technology wise real fast though either by terrorism or by natural occurrence. There are way too many eggs in one basket so to speak in critical infrastructures such as electrical power grid and communications grid. Just as there is way too much dependence on satellite communications. The microwave system point to point Ma Bell relied on took longer but would do the job. When I was a kid Ma Bell networked the TV networks as far as national coast to coast broadcast went through them.