Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

by Elizabeth L. Cline

Book Overview

"Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries."
--Katha Pollitt

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. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591846544
• ISBN13: 9781591846543
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

overpriced for catagory

Writing all over the pages in PEN from the beginning of the book. Writing in the margins in PEN. The writing goes over the top of the actual text. Can you read around it, yes, but the book should still have said it was ACCEPTABLE not GOOD or any variation. A book about the over priced under quality of fashion and it can also apply to the classification given for the very book... Overpriced and under-quality. There are other listings cheaper than I paid and supposedly better quality.