Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H & M. She had grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Until recently, she was a typical American consumer. The work evaluates the costs of low priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local, sustainable clothing. Seven pairs of $7 shoes - "I have enough clothing to open a store" - How America lost its shirts - High and low fashion make friends - Fast fashion - The afterlife of cheap clothes - Sewing is a good job, a great job - China and the end of cheap fashion - Make, alter, and mend - The future of fashion You can check out Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion online.Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index The fashion industry for the benefit of mankind. Young workers forced to work 120+ hours a week in terrible conditions can be crippled by the time they reach their mid-20s. There is also a hidden cost paid by the workers of developing nations labouring in conditions that we would never allow in our own countries. “Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.” Katha Pollitt This is not sustainable, and, in fact, the cheaper clothes become – the more we are inclined to throw them away, which again increases our impact on the planet. Our planet is paying a huge environmental cost for the materials and chemicals used in manufacturing.
Kline’s quest for answers took her all over the world and she discovered that we are all paying for this reduction in cost on the store shelves. The author asks the question, “OK, this is cheap but what is the real cost?” The Cost Of Fashion Is Borne By Our Planet And Other People This is where Overdressed: the Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L Cline comes in. You can read more about the environemental impact of denim in our guide to ethical jeans here.
And we didn’t use sustainable manufacturing processes. How did this happen? Well, it was easy, we invented cheap synthetic materials and we outsourced production to the other side of the world. If you get jeans on sale at Old Navy stuff is almost “free”! In a world where most things seem to be getting more expensive, there’s one thing that has seen a marked decline in cost – fashion.įrom Kmart to Primark, around the world you can buy t-shirts for pennies, leggings for a couple of bucks, shoes for under $10!
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