书籍介绍
Fast fashion and disposable clothing have become our new norms. We buy ten-dollar shoes from Target that disintegrate within a month and make weekly pilgrimages to Forever 21 and H&M. Elizabeth Cline argues that this rapid cycle of consumption isn't just erasing our sense of style and causing massive harm to the environment and human rights - it's also bad for our souls. Cline documents her own transformation from fast-fashion addict to conscientious shopper. She takes a long look at her overstuffed closet, resoles her cheap imported boots, travels to the world's only living-wage garment factory, and seeks out cutting-edge local and sustainable fashion, all on her journey to find antidotes to out-of-control shopping. Cline looks at the impact here and abroad of America's drastic increase in inexpensive clothing imports, visiting cheap-chic factories in Bangladesh and China and exploring the problems caused by all those castoffs we donate to the Salvation Army. She also shows how consumers can vote with their dollars to grow the sustainable clothing industry, reign in the conventional apparel market, and wear their clothes with pride.
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出发点很好，内容很丰富，但落脚点太局限了。身为中国人，除了前言后记的概括，只觉得关于中国那章值得反复阅读思考。
一本关于消费主义的书，讲了快时尚对时尚圈和个人衣橱的绑架。
快时尚的逻辑是这样的：将服装视作一种快速消费品，更快对时装趋势做出反应、更精准预测消费者需求，同质化的衣服降低风险、加快周期运转，以此绑架时尚圈。
我个人的理解是，将你的衣橱注入更多个人灵魂，不论是买像优衣库Zara这种大众品牌，还是更高级的品牌，购物时都是本着一种对自己尊重、对衣物尊重的态度。
节制是一种高级的美。另，学会一衣多搭。
一般....... 只能说跟作者的价值观不太一样吧 很多主观的东西都无法理解
“We’ve gone from making good use of the clothes we own to buying things we’ll never or barely wear. We are caught in a cycle of consumption and waste that is unsettling at best and unsatisfying at its core.” “It changes the rules of what we’re supposed to wear constantly, and we seem to have lost our sense of self along with changing trends.”
In this revealing and thoughtful look at clothing and consumerism, author Elizabeth Cline sets out to reform how we look at fashion and how we shop for clothing. After purchasing SEVEN pairs of flats from KMart in 2009, Cline decided to take a hard look at why she, like so many other Americans (and Canadians), buys so many clothes.
其实看的是这个作者的另一本书The Conscious Closet.这本书的战线拉得太长了，以至于书中关于胶囊衣橱、慢时尚的具体内容都不太记得清了😹，个人觉得这部分内容对于个人的穿衣风格和消费观很有帮助。
读起来略平淡，一直在想记者写书好简单啊只要采访几个人就够了结果最后很长的参考资料…但还是很平淡。而且作者美国人应该把被亚拉美（主要是中国）抢走的工作机会夺回来的观点也不能全部认同啊
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