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Wicker, Alden.
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Clothing and dress -- Toxicity.
Textile fabrics -- Health aspects.
Textile industry -- Technological innovations -- Health aspects.
Fashion -- 21st century.
Hazardous substances.
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Wicker, Alden.
Clothing and dress -- Toxicity.
Textile fabrics -- Health aspects.
Textile industry -- Technological innovations -- Health aspects.
Fashion -- 21st century.
Hazardous substances.
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To dye for : how toxic fashion is making us sick--and how we can fight back / Alden Wicker.
by
Wicker, Alden.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023.
Call #:
677.604 W636t
Subjects
Clothing and dress
--
Toxicity.
Textile
fabrics
--
Health
aspects
.
Textile
industry
--
Technological
innovations
--
Health
aspects
.
Fashion
--
21st century.
Hazardous substances.
ISBN:
9780593422618 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How toxic fashion is making us sick--and how we can fight back
Description:
viii, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293).
Summary:
"Journalist Wicker urges consumers to think twice before picking up a piece of fast fashion in her incisive debut. Following up on the idea that 'fashion products have some of the most complicated and multilayered chemical profiles of any product you or I can buy
--
without a license, anyway,' Wicker spotlights a host of people who've been affected by the fashion
industry
's unregulated toxic chemical use, among them flight attendants who wore uniforms that caused bloody skin lesions; an industrial hygienist later discovered the clothing contained Teflon and tributyl phosphate, which trigger skin and respiratory issues. Meanwhile, a fashion production manager describes grim factory visits in China, where she found workers living on-site and using toxic dyes without protection. Wicker enriches her study with fascinating background on how arsenic ended up in makeup and mercury in top hats before manufacturers switched to azo dyes, which are poorly understood and suspected to have carcinogenic effects. While the situation might seem dire, the author suggests consumers can protect themselves by buying used clothing and avoiding dry cleaners, which often use toxic cleaning agents. Wicker makes a robust, sobering case that 'much of what historically made fashion dangerous to our
health
has been invisible,' grounded by copious research and frequently shocking first-person accounts. This is a real eye-opener."--Publishers Weekly.
Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist, sustainable-fashion expert, and founder and editor-in-chief of EcoCult. She's published investigative pieces for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, and has been interviewed for the BBC, NPR, Reuters, Fortune, CBC, and more. In 2021, Wicker won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Award for business reporting.
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