Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion
AUTHOR:
Cline, Elizabeth L.
ISBN:
9781591846543
EDITION:
Paperback ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
258 p. ; 22 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Paperback edition contains a new afterword.
First published in the United States of America by Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
ABSTRACT:
Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. This title 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.
SUBJECT:
| Clothing trade -- Social aspects |
| Clothing trade -- Environmental aspects |
| Fashion -- Social aspects |
| Fashion -- Environmental aspects |
| Shopping -- Environmental aspects |
| Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects |
BIBSUMMARY:
Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. This title 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.