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Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost Of Cheap Fashion (2012)

by Elizabeth L. Cline(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1591844614 (ISBN13: 9781591844617)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Portfolio Hardcover

review 1: We are given an exclusive look into how fast fashion retailers such as H&M and Target operates - by buying cheap low quality clothing in bulk from China and selling in rich developed countries. They wear out so fast, consumers keep buying new ones. A good wake-up call for undiscerning consumers. Author personally journeyed to China to visit factories to uncover the working mechanism of the "copycat" Chinese garments industry.
review 2: pg. 198 cheap fashion is a waste of money... "because the materials and sewing often aren't even worth owning."The cheap clothing industry has taken jobs out of our nation and is filling our landfills. Natural materials can be composted, but most clothing is made with mixed fabrics and most are manmade. We do not have the technol... moreogy to separate the materials. "clothing that is well made is not cheap..." pg. 208pg. 221 "cheap clothes not only undermine those who sew, sell and design them, they're the pitiful result of decades of price pressure that has erased the craftmanship and splendor of what we were." less

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