Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline.
2012
HD9940.A2 C54 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline.
Author
Cline, Elizabeth L.
ISBN
9781591844617
1591844614
1591844614
Imprint
New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
Language
English
Description
vii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD9940.A2 C54 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/77469/2
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
"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.