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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Cline, Elizabeth L.     Subjects     Clothing trade -- Social aspects.     Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects.     Fashion -- Social aspects.     Fashion -- Environmental aspects.     Shopping -- Environmental aspects.     Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cline, Elizabeth L.       by title:      Overdressed : the sh...       by call number:      338.47687 C641o     Search the Web     Cline, Elizabeth L.     Clothing trade -- Social aspects.     Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects.     Fashion -- Social aspects.     Fashion -- Environmental aspects.     Shopping -- Environmental aspects.     Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline. by Cline, Elizabeth L. Portfolio/Penguin, c2012. Call #: 338.47687 C641o Subjects Clothing trade -- Social aspects.   Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects.   Fashion -- Social aspects.   Fashion -- Environmental aspects.   Shopping -- Environmental aspects.   Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781591844617 (hardcover) 1591844614 (hardcover) Description:  vii, 244 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) 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:  "Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. Elizabeth Cline argues that this rapid cycle of consumption isn't just erasing our sense of style and causing massive harm to the environment and human rights-it's also bad for our souls. Cline documents her own transformation from fast-fashion addict to conscientious shopper. She takes a long look at her overstuffed closet, resoles her cheap imported boots, travels to the world's only living-wage garment factory, and seeks out cutting-edge local and sustainable fashion, all on her journey to find antidotes to out-of-control shopping. Cline looks at the impact here and abroad of America's drastic increase in inexpensive clothing imports, visiting cheap-chic factories in Bangladesh and China and exploring the problems caused by all those castoffs we donate to the Salvation Army. She also shows how consumers can vote with their dollars to grow the sustainable clothing industry, reign in the conventional apparel market, and wear their clothes with pride."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.47687 C641o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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