If fabric like linen and wool risk shrinkage, why not just shrink them ahead before making the clothes?

Question

Mourning the loss of my linen pants

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Answer 1

Costs extra energy to produce the heat to do that and they don’t care. From their point of view: What are you gonna do, not buy clothes?

Realistically it should be cheaper for them to do that at 1 central place with a large efficient machine vs every individual person having to create that heat energy in their home with smaller inefficient machines (similar to how powerplants are more efficient at creating energy vs individual ICE cars). So it’d technically be better if they did, at least if they cared about environmental damage.