Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Thanks to books like Fast Food Nation and authors like Michael Pollen, people have become more aware of what fast food is and what it does to both individuals and society. But have you ever stopped to think about the impact of fast fashion?

Elizabeth Cline sets out to research how the low cost (and at times quality) of fashion impacts people, the environment and even the economy. The life cycle of clothes has decreased as consumers started demanding cheaper prices and more options. Americans now buy over one new clothing item a week, spending less than we did in previous decades while owning more. This has caused a huge excess of used clothing that is slowly becoming harder to get rid of on the second hand market.

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion is for anyone who has ever looked at a stuffed closet and thought "I have nothing to wear".