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Author:

Cline, Elizabeth L.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Portfolio/Penguin,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

vii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Clothing trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Clothing trade--Environmental aspects.
Fashion--Social aspects.
Fashion--Environmental aspects.
Shopping--Environmental aspects.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1591844614
9781591844617

LCCN:

2012004525

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk) — 338.4774692 C641o

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

JHPC815 -- Sac City Public Library (Sac City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)