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Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline.

By: Cline, Elizabeth L.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: vii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781591844617; 1591844614.Subject(s): Clothing trade -- Social aspects | Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects | Fashion -- Social aspects | Fashion -- Environmental aspects | Shopping -- Environmental aspects | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 338.4/77469/2
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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