system
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human
ELI5: Why are clothes of different sizes the same price? Are the price mark-ups from the manufacturer big enough to neglect the cost of the extra fabric in larger clothes?
gpt
The cost of the fabric is only one of many components that go into the price of an item... a $20 t-shirt may only have $2 worth of fabric in it, with the costs coming from labor, transportation half way around the world, distribution to stores, branding and design, mark-ups for the various middle men along the way. So maybe the small has $1.80 worth of fabric and the XL has $2.20 worth. They set the price at the average cost, which is easier than having to set, input, track countless prices for all the different sizes. A store having to spent 4x as much time setting prices would spend far more on labor doing that than is spent on additional fabric.