Overdressed
The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
Overdressed
Acheter pour 35,18 $
-
Narrateur(s):
-
Amy Melissa Bentley
-
Auteur(s):
-
Elizabeth L. Cline
À propos de cet audio
Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to fast fashion chains like H&M now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are producing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and they've turned clothing into a disposable good. After all, we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it's cheaper to just buy more.
But what are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being? In Overdressed, Elizabeth L. Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut, tracing the rise of budget clothing chains, the death of middle-market and independent retailers, and the roots of our obsession with deals and steals.
©2012 Elizabeth L. Cline (P)2016 TantorCe que les critiques en disent
The reader was somewhat monotone, making it hard to stay focused sometimes.
The book is a little bit wordy, so perhaps not for everyone.
Very informative
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
If you wear clothes, it's worth a listen.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
It’s a bit dated now but still interesting
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
I really appreciate how this author did such in-depth research, including her travels to several international and overseas countries to see for herself how the fast fashion industry impacts the factory workers and environment. I also appreciate how many different sorts of people that she interviewed and met with to gain a clearer picture of the devastating effects cheap fashion has on the world.
That said, I felt like the first half or two-thirds of the book should have been edited down to at least half the length. I felt like the same thing was being said over and over and over again. Perhaps this is because I am already dedicated to slow fashion, thrifting, mending and sewing my own clothing? Possible. But I still think that the text could have been made so much more compelling and interesting by being concise.
Further, I feel that while the author paid great attention to the effects of fast fashion on underpaid and overworked factory employees, the effects on the American economy of sourcing overseas, and dwindling quality, there was a relative dearth of information on environmental impacts from production. If topics like fabric production pollutants, the environmental impacts of clothing dyes and/or natural versus unnatural textile manufacture, land/water/oil/etc usage per textile type was discussed, this book could have been the same length but much more interesting.
I would have also liked to see specific call-to-action points for readers to follow. Some ideas are quietly interwoven into the last (best) chapter, but not necessarily in any revolutionary or compelling way. I also don’t like that the author seems to advocate for getting rid of the majority of what readers own and replacing it immediately with better options, rather than simply decluttering and then slowly, mindfully, environmentally caring for what we already have and only filling in wardrobe gaps - as needed - with better options.
I REALLY wanted to love this book because the subject matter is so close to my heart. Sadly, the writing style was so boring and in need of editing that only willpower got me through to the end.
Important, but not concise.
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.