After reading it, I understood more about the globalized fashion industry-and my own feelings about clothes. She travels to overseas factories, chats with YouTube fashions stars, and demystifies the decline of the American garment industry.Ĭline brings a lot of threads together: our love of style, the joy of creating your own wardrobe, the constant desire to buy more. Cline explores how these bargains have changed the fashion industry, the economy, the people who make clothes, and the people who buy them. Overdressed is very readable look at the rise of cheap clothes. In fact, Zara’s cheap enough that I can buy several-and throw them away when I’m tired of them. I can’t afford Chanel skirt, but I can afford a Chanel knock-off from Zara. Cheap clothing is cuter and better designed. In 2016, we live in a “fashion democracy.” Clothing has become jaw-droppingly cheap. Meanwhile, clothing is a better bargain than ever. We pay less for clothes, when measured as a share of our income, than ever in history … The price of just about everything in America has climbed in recent decades-housing, gas, education, health care, and movie tickets. Cline.įor the last 15 years, Americans have enjoyed an almost unabated and unprecedented free fall in the average price of clothing. The next book in the Colette Book Club is Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L.
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