Majutsu Gakuin wo Shuseki de Sotsugyoushita Ore ga Boukensha wo Hajimeru no wa sonna ni okashii darouka - Vol. 7 Ch. 33

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i am somewhat bothered with clothes cost gold to make. Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
 
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So next chapter we're getting back a reasonably normal Cyril. Good for her. And us.

Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
Yeah, while it takes a lot of time to weave cloth with ancient methods, manpower was still something much cheaper back in those days compared to more modern days. The price shouldn't be that extravagant. It should probably be what a craftsman of equivalent skill would earn for working that amount of time. I forget the exact currency values for that world, but it definitely shouldn't be an amount you can live comfortably with for a much longer period of time than it takes to create those clothes.
 
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i am somewhat bothered with clothes cost gold to make. Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)

Yeah, while it takes a lot of time to weave cloth with ancient methods, manpower was still something much cheaper back in those days compared to more modern days. The price shouldn't be that extravagant. It should probably be what a craftsman of equivalent skill would earn for working that amount of time. I forget the exact currency values for that world, but it definitely shouldn't be an amount you can live comfortably with for a much longer period of time than it takes to create those clothes.

Gold coins in this series is actually not as valuable as typically depicted in some other series. 1 gold coin is roughly 2 days worth of living expenses for 1 person (ch. 24 pg. 15).

Assuming their mechanical engineering technology isn’t very advanced due to magic thus everything done manually by hand (as Will said), making a clothing article beginning from thread spooling would take days by trained weavers. Considering the time and living cost, the resulting cost that Will mentioned for new clothing makes somewhat of a sense. Of course, he probably referred to the nicer articles closer to what Satsuki wears and not some sackcloth.
 
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i am somewhat bothered with clothes cost gold to make. Weaving a clothes is one of the most ancient knowledge next to farming and hunting. It shouldn't be cost more than smithing (creating a tool) or sculpting (creating an ornament or building architecture)
My take on it is that the magically-made clothing has the same quality and feel as high brand products (i.e. expensive materials woven by a famous tailor or such) and therefore the clothes spell crashed the price of those brand name clothes.
Will being a high class citizen likely disregarded the rags of common folks when he talked about the matter.
 
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The chapter says dispel won't make the clothes disintegrate, but I bet there is a rather easy spell that will. Otherwise, why would that ultra convenient method of making cloth have disappeared? The only reason is a huge, inherent weakness. Nobody just has bothered to research it or found the complete dispel spell in ancient ruins. Honestly, it's hard to believe no magician would look into it. While it would create a great, immediate catastrophe, it's still something that needs to be figured out, the sooner the better.

Imagine if one country figured it out, but kept it a secret. They would then launch an attack against a rival country, suddenly starting to use the spell massively. If you deprive soldiers of cloth, they won't be fighting for very long. If you have bare metal armor against your skin, it's no good, let alone those without armor. Naked civilians running around in panic also wouldn't support the defending armed forces. Supplies in sacks 'n' bags would suddenly scatter on the ground.

I'd even call this a plot hole.
 
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Gold coins in this series is actually not as valuable as typically depicted in some other series. 1 gold coin is roughly 2 days worth of living expenses for 1 person (ch. 24 pg. 15).

Assuming their mechanical engineering technology isn’t very advanced due to magic thus everything done manually by hand (as Will said), making a clothing article beginning from thread spooling would take days by trained weavers. Considering the time and living cost, the resulting cost that Will mentioned for new clothing makes somewhat of a sense. Of course, he probably referred to the nicer articles closer to what Satsuki wears and not some sackcloth.
Well, he said "dozens of gold coins", and didn't specify the quality of it. A dozen gold coins is about 24 days, so several dozen would be several months worth of living costs.

In addition back in ch 24 they're speaking about what they need to live off of. They're adventurers, not workers with homes. Adventurers' expenses are much higher than a craftsman or farmer.

A normal person doesn't earn much more than they spend for living expenses. So even if you earn twice of what you need for living, you'd need to save money for those several months exclusively to buy one piece of clothing.

This is not math that adds up. I don't think it makes sense.

The chapter says dispel won't make the clothes disintegrate, but I bet there is a rather easy spell that will.
How about fireball?

My understanding is that the spell forms the material, but the clothes aren't made out of magic. They're made of real cloth. As such, they wouldn't be susceptible to dispelling. But that also implies that there are ways of making magic cloth that can be dispelled, since otherwise it wouldn't have been mentioned.
 

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