Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Overdressed

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

858801872

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth L. Cline

Sub title

the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion

Summary

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. Until recently, she was a typical American consumer. She had 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 wore, including 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, 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 JC Penney now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices

Table Of 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

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