The items you can make aren't worth selling in EC. Cultural Tailoring is used to skill up past 158 (where Wu's becomes trivial) so you can get to a skill level where you can successfully make Velious Leathers (trivials are all above the max skill on p99 of 250). Wood Elf Cultural maxes at 215. Since every time you succeed at a combine the likelihood that you will get a skill up is about TWICE as high as when you fail, people will make cultural armor as a "stepping stone" to get to Velious Leathers.
In addition, for people planning to do the Velious Shawl quest, Shawl 6 has a trivial of 208 and Shawl 7 has a trivial of 162. While you can make the shawls with lower skill levels, your chance of success is a lot higher the closer your skill level is to those trivial levels. I would recommend that anyone interested in the Shawl quest gets to a minimum skill level of 162 before attempting the 6th or 7th shawls. At that level, you can get the 7th shawl 95% (max success rate) of the time on the first try and the 6th shawl usually requires 2-3 combines. If you skill up all the way to 208, you have a 95% chance of getting the 6th on the first combine, but it is usually easier to farm the quest items 2-3 times than to skill ALL the way up to 208.
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