Global clothing production is responsible for far too many negative environmental consequences
When I was 12 or 13, my mom and I didn’t have fun shopping for clothes together. All I wanted was a wardrobe – especially one with early-1990s brand faves like Esprit and– to meet the standard I had gleaned from a teen magazine: you could not wear the same thing twice in a two-week span. The horror!
In inflation-adjusted dollars, clothing and footwear prices have plummeted by 46 per cent since 1999. This tracks with my experience: I recently found a crumpled Bootlegger receipt among my childhood belongings that shows I bought two shirts there in 1997 for $22 and $44. It’s not all that different than what you might spend today.
Of course, there is a significant upside to this manufacturing for the economies of countries such as Bangladesh or Vietnam. But apart from the environmental cost, journalists and human rights groups have also highlighted the toll on people. Shein, the Chinese retailer that does an estimatedfor using suppliers where low-paid employees work 17 hours a day. And it shows. Last week on the Shein site, a top and leggings set for girls was going for about $6.
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