Overdressed

the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion

244 pages

English language

Published Aug. 20, 2012 by Portfolio/Penguin.

ISBN:
978-1-59184-461-7
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OCLC Number:
857068423

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Review of 'Overdressed' on 'Goodreads'

So a couple years ago, I got anxious about child labor making clothes. I guess, at the end of the day, I'm a hippy at heart and I absorbed a lot of sweatshop rhetoric as a child. At the end of 2013, I made a New Year's resolution that I wasn't going to buy anything, unless it was made in a country with strong labor laws, or out of recycled materials, or in some other way good for something. It was a surprisingly difficult year, especially for socks and underwear. But after 2014 ended, I kept it up for clothes, at least. And, as billed by Elizabeth Cline, buying high-end brands (mostly used) and avoiding fast fashion has resulted in clothes I like more, and keep longer.

Given that I was pretty much already there, I found Overdressed a pretty shallow read. It read fast, and at times seemed more …

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Subjects

  • Social aspects
  • Fashion
  • Shopping
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • Clothing trade
  • Environmental aspects