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Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion

text Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap 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.

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 ... Read more
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244 p.;
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin 2012

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 338.4 CLIN in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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