My store bought clothes came mainly from the next to new shop in a town about 10 miles from where I lived. Mom worked at the restaurant 16 hrs or more per day;she had no time nor talent for sewing.
I liked it because no one else had the same outfit, and the kids had no idea where they came from.LOL
My mom was a stay at home mom and worked at that her whole life. Monday was wash day, Tuesday was ironing day. She worked in the garden with my father and she canned in a hot kitchen all summer. I told myself I would never stand in a hot kitchen and do that. That was in east Texas and it was major hot just like Texas is today. We also had an outhouse until I was a junior in high school. I also told myself I would never have an outhouse.
Today, I have air conditioning and three bathrooms. I still, to this day, appreciate bathrooms. I haven't been in an outhouse since that time I was a junior in high school. Never again. Oh, wait, what if we lose power for a long time? Well, I still will not have an outhouse - I have portable potties to use inside, never outside again.
You and I grew up in another age. As I go along in this one, I find I don't care for the way it has developed into today. I think we are going back to that earlier age and I prep every day to keep as much of today's comfort as I can because I remember how it was. I am so old I don't think many people alive today went through that earlier time and the shock will devastate many and death will come to many.
I wish good health and a long life for you.