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Overdressed

Overdressed
By:"Elizabeth L. Cline"
Published on 2012-06-14 by Penguin

Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average is sixty-four per year) but all she had to show for it was a closet and countless storage bins packed full of low-quality fads she barely wore—including the same sailor-stripe tops and fleece hoodies as a million other shoppers. When she found herself lugging home seven pairs of identical canvas flats from Kmart (a steal at $7 per pair, marked down from $15!), she realized that something was deeply wrong. Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenney now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are pro\u00adducing 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, 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 retail\u00aders, and the roots of our obsession with deals and steals. She travels to cheap-chic factories in China, follows the fashion industry as it chases even lower costs into Bangladesh, and looks at the impact (both here and abroad) of America’s drastic increase in imports. She even explores how cheap fashion harms the charity thrift shops and textile recyclers where our masses of cloth\u00ading castoffs end up. Sewing, once a life skill for American women and a pathway from poverty to the middle class for workers, is now a dead-end sweatshop job. The pressures of cheap have forced retailers to drastically reduce detail and craftsmanship, making the clothes we wear more and more uniform, basic, and low quality. Creative inde\u00adpendent designers struggle to produce good and sustainable clothes at affordable prices. Cline shows how consumers can break the buy-and-toss cycle by supporting innovative and stylish sustainable designers and retailers, refash\u00adioning clothes throughout their lifetimes, and mending and even making clothes themselves. Overdressed will inspire you to vote with your dollars and find a path back to being well dressed and feeling good about what you wear.

This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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The Black Art of Cooking

The Black Art of Cooking
By:"Carl Loeb"
Published on 1993-06 by Health Research Books

1921 Partial list of contents: How Cooked Food Produces Disease; What is the Proper Food; How to Begin the Unfired Diet; the Psychology of Feeding; Recipes; Food in Relation to Sex; the Action of the Heart & Kidneys in the Unfired Diet, etc.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword cooking.

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Early History of Thurston County, Washington

Early History of Thurston County, Washington
By:"Georgiana Mitchell Blankenship"
Published on 1914 by

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword biographies.

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Art and Cognition

Art and Cognition
By:"Arthur Efland"
Published on 2002 by Teachers College Press

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This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword art.

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My Wonderful World of Fashion

My Wonderful World of Fashion
By:"Nina Chakrabarti"
Published on 2009-09-23 by Laurence King Publishing

An interactive coloring book for fashionistas of all ages, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed withbeautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion-illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. The book encourages creativity, with illustrations to color in and designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing (how to make a sari, turn a napkin into a headscarf, dye a T-shirt, and so on). Covering clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry, and other accessories, the illustrations span both vintage fashionsdrawing on beautiful and interesting objects from past agesand contemporary designs from the illustrator's own imagination. 'Did you know...?' features that give brief historical notes encourage children to be inspired by history and by other cultures. A wonderful celebration of fashion, the book will appeal to fashion addicts from 8 years plus.

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Good news for young and old

Good news for young and old
By:
Published on 1869 by

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword young.

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The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide

The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide
By:"Oliver Evans","Cadwallader Evans","Thomas Ellicott"
Published on 1848 by

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword young.

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