Why Cheap Fashion Is Costing Us so Much

If you've ever bought outfits from retailers like H&M or Zara, you know that when the cheap stitching begins to fall apart, so too does the supposed luxury of inexpensive fashion. Our obsession with looking good for less constitutes one branch of the American consumerist tree, says Elizabeth Kline, whose book "Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion" describes the consequences of our growing "fast-fashion habit, starting with the sheer waste resulting from cast-off clothing." Kline's primary criticism is that the sheer volume of (low-quality) clothing being produced is simply unsustainable...

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