In your ideal world, everyone makes their own clothes?

Yes. Certainly it would solve a lot of problems. It would create more problems too, of course. If everyone made their own clothes, people would have a renewed appreciation for time.

You can’t copyright patterns of clothes.

According to the Useful Article doctrine in U.S. copyright law, “if an object has a practical or useful function, copyright protection applies only to the original, creative elements that can be identified separately from the utilitarian aspects of an object, but does not extend to the underlying design of the functional object.”

The person who runs archivings.net, Shahan Assadourian, was quoted saying they prefer fashion brands that last less than 3 years; these brands tend to make the most interesting stuff. It’s a lot of hand work. It’s truly unscalable.