It is pricey. It takes a fair time to draft and check a pattern. With bigger companies we benefit from economies of scale, and lucky Americans who pick up Vogue patterns for a song in sales are used to absolute bargains. I hate pdfs and don’t get why people ignore the cost of printing out and the time cutting and glueing in their calculations. This shirt looks a bit fuller on the hips, and has a pleat near the bottom. Many could copy this easily, but lurking on forums I’m constantly surprised by the number of people who are in a tizz about fairly simple operations, so there’s going to be buyers who don’t want to work out how much fuller to make it and at what level to pleat, and how deep the pleat should be. There are indies I won’t name who, whilst cheaper, are worse bargains, to judge by the glaring mishaps in their demonstration garments.
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