Know That You’re Getting What You Pay For
Does $20 really seem like a fair price to pay for a dress? Most fast fashion retailers are able to drive down their prices because they produce cheaply in factories in China or Bangladesh–factories that Cline herself went to visit and found that their working conditions and salaries were not necessarily fair. Retailers are also reducing prices by buying fabric–mostly synethetic, at that–in massive bulk, which can lead to unnecessary waste. Bottom line is that if a garment’s price seems too good to be true, it probably is. Someone is paying the price, whether it be the environment or factory workers on the other side of the world.