One, it's because the distribution of resources was uneven at that time, and it wasn't easy to get the right sweater.
Two, because finished sweaters were too expensive for the average working family back then.
For me, as a child growing up in the northeast, I was too touched by my mother's hand-knitted sweaters and sweaters, not only sweaters, but also hats, gloves and scarves, all of which were handmade by my mother.
There is also the fact that most of the young people nowadays, nine to five, off work just want to lie down and play a game, brush a jitterbug, and occasionally have to work overtime, there is no time to spend on knitting, and secondly, knitting is too difficult for many young people nowadays.
Then there's the fact that the interest isn't in knitting, so naturally they don't want to spend time on it.
I'm a wool craft enthusiast, I was going to knit a sweater for my elders, but after knitting a cashmere scarf I couldn't imagine how long and hard it would take to knit a sweater, so I chose to buy it.
Purely hand-woven can only mean different, the average person hand-woven craft are not as good as the machine. So it's better to buy it, after all, there are more styles and more choices.
Nowadays, people's work and life rhythm is too fast, few people have a lot of free time, it can also be said that very few people choose to really calm down slowly knitting sweater. People feel that knitting is a waste of time, and most prefer to spend the time they have squeezed out doing something else more meaningful.
In fact, the charm of hand crocheting and hand knitting is still quite big, at least it will let me get rid of anxiety for a while, and concentrate on one thing only, and try to make it perfect, and it will be a great sense of achievement after doing it well, and the sense of achievement of hand knitting is visible and tangible, I will choose to spend some of my time knitting a scarf for my baby, a hat, mittens, and so on, or I will also sometimes In short, I will continue to crochet and knit in the future!