most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

The age of Amazon has made it so much worse… even poor people went to clothing stores and tried stuff on before buying it.

Now, if you don’t want to pay triple, you get it from mail order and just hope it fits - yeah you can return it if it doesn’t fit, but how much hassle is that, if it’s “close enough” people generally don’t bother, whereas if you were in the store you’d get the right size within a minute or two before buying it.