Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Evaluates the actual costs of low-priced, poor-quality clothing while tracing the author's own transformation from a cheap fashion consumer to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a living-wage garment factory, learned to resole inexpensive shoes and shopped for local, sustainable clothing. 20,000 first printing.
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.
?Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.” ?Katha Pollitt Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And 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. Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut. 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?