I think there must be some cultural difference at play here. Certainly, in Korean culture, all traditional clothing has curves; it's part of the aesthetic. So the whole "rectangles" and straight seams thing doesn't make any sense to me.
Also, I think in Western countries, there's more of a generational gap in terms of how long ago sewing your own clothes was a common activity. For me, in my mother's generation, it was actually cheaper to make your own clothes/buy handmade clothes from the tailor than mass-produced factory garments. These were hand-sewn clothes too, not ones made on a sewing machine. The few dresses she kept are still quite beautiful, figure-flattering and with pleating. Plus, I think going to the tailor is still pretty common in a lot of Asian countries. But for a lot of people in the U.S., sewing hasn't been common outside home econ classes since their grandmother's (or sometimes even great-grandmother's) generation.
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Also, I think in Western countries, there's more of a generational gap in terms of how long ago sewing your own clothes was a common activity. For me, in my mother's generation, it was actually cheaper to make your own clothes/buy handmade clothes from the tailor than mass-produced factory garments. These were hand-sewn clothes too, not ones made on a sewing machine. The few dresses she kept are still quite beautiful, figure-flattering and with pleating. Plus, I think going to the tailor is still pretty common in a lot of Asian countries. But for a lot of people in the U.S., sewing hasn't been common outside home econ classes since their grandmother's (or sometimes even great-grandmother's) generation.