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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.

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 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
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