Influence Of Fast Fashion

People indulge in clothes shopping every day and often do not consider the changes that occurred throughout time that led to the development of mass produced clothing for both men and women. As a result of the Civil War, the production of clothing shifted from homemade clothing to clothing mass produced in factories. After the Civil War, Urbanization along with new developments, such as advertising and the new, wealthy urban class, increased the demand for mass produced women’s clothing and clothing stores that made clothing readily available.

This papers purpose is to teach fashion heavy consumers on the real price of fast fashion and how buying it affects the environment. This type of audience can be anyone who partakes in the buying of well-known cheap retail stores that have a large audience of being fast and obtainable. These consumers should have the information on how fast fashion effects are environment so it could possibly alter their buying habits to be eco-friendlier but buying either less or more sustainable clothing instead of the cheap alternatives. This audience should care about this purpose because this will affect the world now and for future generations as their environment is being mistreated because of these fast

It is impossible to beat a cheap price. In today’s world, finding a sought after item at a dirt cheap price is one the main motivation American’s get in the car and battle the craziness in the mall. And as the basic American human beings that we are, it is never possible for us to be complacent with the amount of stuff we currently have. Eventually, we will come across a friend that has the next must have item that will cause us to run to our local mall and purchase a similar item at the lowest price possible. With all that said, it is no wonder why the industry of fast fashion has taken off over the past decade. Felipe Caro and Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz, researchers for UCLA’s school of supply chain coordination, define fast fashion as “a business model that combines four elements: (i) fashionable clothes mostly for consumers under 40; (ii) affordable prices in the mid-to-low range; (iii) quick response; and (iv) frequent assortment changes”. Retailers like H&M, Forever 21, Target, and Wal-Mart have been able to take this business model and make a fortune. But while all these quick trends and cheap prices are great for the consumer, its cost on the foreign worker and the environment does not go uncovered. In the book Overdressed by Elizabeth Cline, she presents many arguments supporting the claim that fast fashion is unethical based on

In this article, Barenblat outlines some of the key reasons as to why fast fashion is detrimental for women and the environment. The author supports her claim by suggesting fast fashion is expensive for the planet, encourages young women in poverty to work in sweatshops, and leads to million tons of landfill each year. This information in the article is useful because it provides relevant statistics on the damages caused by the clothing industry.

Change is a theme that is ever-present in our culture and society. Often this change is reflected in the dress of its people. From the fashionable silhouettes of the 1920’s to the colorful 60’s, hip-hop look of 90’s up to the modern twist of today, social change and change in fashion has, in theory and practice, been linked. According to ask.com, Fashion can be defined as a prevalent style by a particular group at a particular time, and, therefore, may be linked to a specific cultural and historical context in which there is general acceptance of a given style or look

Clothing today is seen as easily assessable and creative, but that was not always the case. We are lucky to live in such a modern world of clothing. Over the course of time, the development of clothing has changed drastically as well as the style.

The clothing industry has become synonymous with sweatshops and overseas labour. The True Cost pushes for commercial change. Bringing an awareness to what “sweatshop” really

Introduction Have you ever imagined working in a place where employees are subjected to dangerous working conditions, including unfair salaries and arbitrary punishments, such as physical and mental abuse? Since the hourly rate of sweatshop workers is less than their everyday expenses, these workers never have a chance to improve their quality of life. Ken Silverstein’s 2010 magazine article “Shopping for Sweat: The human cost of a two-dollar T-Shirt” outlines the harsh working conditions for many garment workers living in Cambodia. The topics discussed are slavery, ethical sourcing, public relations, productivity, poverty, and competitiveness.

The fashion industry fuels the message that “the way to solve your problems is to consume more.” Therefore, making people buy things they don’t really need. Currently there are “80 billion clothes sold a year” and “40 million garment workers.” This industry encourages people to buy things based of their wants and not their needs, sometimes people buy clothes they never wear in their life so this means that these poor people working in sweatshops are getting abused and producing clothes for no reason.

We all like to wear the newest most fashionable clothes for a cheap price. What we fail to think about while purchasing these items is how it made it to the store in the first place; someone had to make the clothes you are wearing but who? After some research, I found our cheap fashion is coming from working children from all over the world. Receiving clothes from foreign countries like Brazil and many more is doing more harm than good to the working children, and the working conditions for these children should be safer. The practice has caused people to buy cheap fashion without realizing the consequence of the children who made it.

A sweatshop is a factory where workers receive low wages while being forced to work in poor environments. In general, these workshops produce an abundant amount of the clothing that we wear everyday. However, few acknowledge the act of sweatshop labor, since it is rarely shown to the public eye. Ironically, many popular fashion brands that we buy from all recieve clothes that are made in sweatshops. While sweatshop workers are treated unfairly in the workplace, fast fashion provides them with jobs and it provides us with the clothing that we constantly demand for. To understand the topic of sweatshop labor, we must recognize the effects of this controversial working system.

As consumers, large consumption of cheap clothing triggers a pressure on manufacturers to keep mass producing products at a desperate, low price. However, this results to the continuing exertion of unhealthy and unjustful conditions of sweatshop labor. As previously stated, large corporations such as Forever 21, H&M and many others have sourced their factories to undeveloped countries, where employees receive barely enough pay to survive on from a day to day basis. The approach to an end or limitation of sweatshop suppliers will never reach a possibility if the limitless drive for inexpensive clothing keeps increasing. To consumers, low priced clothing may seem strikingly attractive, but the continuance purchase of cheap clothing signals a sign of approval to factory suppliers; declaring the permission to keep sweatshops alive in undeveloped countries. Generally, consumers don’t understand the substantial cost behind a cheap t-shirt before throwing it in the shopping cart, due to the coverup of labor and human rights practices from many apparel companies (Winkler). This then constitutes to the unawareness of poor labor conditions enforced by clothing retailers. Unintentionally, consumer consumption aids as fuel for the production of sweatshops in the garment industry. To enumerate, 98% of clothing today has been outsourced outside from domestic

Clothing not only keeps us warm, hides our imperfections or accentuates our best features, but also expresses our personality. However, fashion is more like a cult than self-expression. Every month or every weekend, sometimes in our pajamas, we start a new crusade for extra clothes, even if 20% of it never leaves our closets. We buy a staggering amount of cheap and low-quality clothing, which sometimes falls apart after one wear or one wash, and easily gets tossed into the garbage.

The majority of clothing manufacturing resides within Asia, Central America and South America. In these regions there are risks associated with

From the time it was proposed in the late nineteenth century to its implementation in the twentieth century, clothing reform was endowed with different meanings and potential