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  Title

  Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion

  Author

  Cline, Elizabeth L.  

  Publisher:

  Portfolio/Penguin,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  vii, 244 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9781591844617

  Item info:

  2 copies available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library and Aurora Campus.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HD9940 .A2 C54 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf
    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HD9940 .A2 C54 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781591844617

  ISBN:

  1591844614

  Personal Author:

  Cline, Elizabeth L.

  Title:

  Overdressed : the shockingly high cost of cheap fashion / Elizabeth L. Cline.

  Publication info:

  New York : Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.

  Physical 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.

  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.

  Held by:

  TODD AURORA

  Subject term:

  Clothing trade--Social aspects.

  Subject term:

  Clothing trade--Environmental aspects.

  Subject term:

  Fashion--Social aspects.

  Subject term:

  Fashion--Environmental aspects.

  Subject term:

  Shopping--Environmental aspects.

  Subject term:

  Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

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