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Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

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Who makes your clothes? This was once a very easy question to respond to it was once the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street―or you made them yourself. Nowadays, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced a globalized fashion industry worth $1.5 trillion a year.

In Wardrobe Crisis, fashion journalist Clare Press explores the history and ethics at the back of what we wear. Putting her insider status to good use, Press examines all of the fashion ecosystem, from sweatshops to haute couture, unearthing the roots of Nowadays’s buy-and-discard culture. She traces the origins of icons like Chanel, Dior, and Hermès; charts the upward thrust and fall of the department store; and follows the thread that led us from Marie Antoinette to Carrie Bradshaw.

Wardrobe Crisis is a witty and persuasive argument for a fashion revolution so that you can empower you to be ok with your wardrobe again.

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