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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.
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Overdressed : the sh...
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Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline.
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Cline, Elizabeth L.
New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
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.
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.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
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338.47746 Cline
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Kihei Public Library
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