Overdressed
Subtitle: the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion
By: Elizabeth L. Cline
Publisher: Portfolio/Penguin
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781591844617
Subjects: Social aspects; Fashion; Shopping; Consumption (Economics); Clothing trade; Environmental aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seven pairs of $7 shoes; title: "I have enough clothing to open a store"; title: How America lost its shirts; title: High and low fashion make friends; title: Fast fashion; title: The afterlife of cheap clothes; title: Sewing is a good job, a great job; title: China and the end of cheap fashion; title: Make, alter, and mend; title: The future of fashion.