Our planet is paying a huge environmental cost for the materials and chemicals used in manufacturing. Kline’s quest for answers took her all over the world and she discovered that we are all paying for this reduction in cost on the store shelves. The author asks the question, “OK, this is cheap but what is the real cost?” The Cost Of Fashion Is Borne By Our Planet And Other People This is where Overdressed: the Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L Cline comes in. You can read more about the environemental impact of denim in our guide to ethical jeans here. And we didn’t use sustainable manufacturing processes. How did this happen? Well, it was easy, we invented cheap synthetic materials and we outsourced production to the other side of the world. If you get jeans on sale at Old Navy stuff is almost “free”! In a world where most things seem to be getting more expensive, there’s one thing that has seen a marked decline in cost – fashion.įrom Kmart to Primark, around the world you can buy t-shirts for pennies, leggings for a couple of bucks, shoes for under $10!
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