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Product Description: Will eco-friendly fashion dress the future? Can fashion be sustainable? Sustainability is a challenge that cannot be ignored today. Sustainable fashion reassesses the material and manufacturing components without renouncing the aesthetic and symbolic...read more
Paperback:
9788831712606 | Marsilio Editori Spa, February 12, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Will eco-friendly fashion dress the future?
Paperback:
9781906155094 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, April 15, 2008, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780304320271 | Cassell, October 1, 1992, cover price $5.95 | also contains Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. Sheâd grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average is sixty-four per year) but all she had to show for it was a closet and countless storage bins packed full of low-quality fads she barely woreâincluding the same sailor-stripe tops and fleece hoodies as a million other shoppers. When she found herself lugging home seven pairs of identical canvas flats from Kmart (a steal at $7 per pair, marked down from $15!), she realized that something was deeply wrong. Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenney now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are proÂducing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and theyâve turned clothing into a disposable good. After all, we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and itâs cheaper to just buy more. But what are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being? In Overdressed, Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut, tracing the rise of budget clothing chains, the death of middle-market and independent retailÂers, and the roots of our obsession with deals and steals. She travels to cheap-chic factories in China, follows the fashion industry as it chases even lower costs into Bangladesh, and looks at the impact (both here and abroad) of Americaâs drastic increase in imports. She even explores how cheap fashion harms the charity thrift shops and textile recyclers where our masses of clothÂing castoffs end up. Sewing, once a life skill for American women and a pathway from poverty to the middle class for workers, is now a dead-end sweatshop job. The pressures of cheap have forced retailers to drastically reduce detail and craftsmanship, making the clothes we wear more and more uniform, basic, and low quality. Creative indeÂpendent designers struggle to produce good and sustainable clothes at affordable prices. Cline shows how consumers can break the buy-and-toss cycle by supporting innovative and stylish sustainable designers and retailers, refashÂioning clothes throughout their lifetimes, and mending and even making clothes themselves. Overdressed will inspire you to vote with your dollars and find a path back to being well dressed and feeling good about what you wear.
Hardcover:
9781591844617 | Portfolio, June 14, 2012, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer.
Paperback:
9781591846543 | Reprint edition (Portfolio, August 27, 2013), cover price $16.00
Paperback:
9782940496143, titled "A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion: Sustainable Fashion" | Fairchild Books, March 27, 2014, cover price $44.95
Hardcover:
9780415828598 | Routledge, September 5, 2014, cover price $240.00
Paperback:
9780304320271, titled "Herbaceous Perennials" | Cassell, October 1, 1992, cover price $5.95 | also contains Herbaceous Perennials
Paperback:
9781628925319 | 2 edition (Fairchild Books, July 30, 2015), cover price $85.00
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