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Title

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

Author

Cline, Elizabeth L.

Publication Info.

New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.

Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Storage Blue	HD 9940 .A2 C54 2012	CHECKED IN

Description	vii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject	Clothing trade -- Social aspects.
	Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects.
	Fashion -- Social aspects.
	Fashion -- Environmental aspects.
	Shopping -- Environmental aspects.
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
ISBN	9781591844617
	1591844614
OCLC #	733230711

https://elibrary.wayne.edu:443/record=b4366220~S47

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