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Who Made Your T-Shirt? The Hidden Cost of Cheap Fashion

(Photo by Art Cummings/Flickr)   Everyone likes a good deal. And for that reason, most of us have flocked to clothing stores like H&M and Old Navy for the unbelievably cheap and expansive selection...

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Where Does Your T-Shirt Come From? Follow Its Global Journey

Best viewed in full screen mode A simple cotton T-shirt doesn’t seem quite so simple when you try to trace the vast global process involved in making it. The extraordinary success of fast fashion...

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Why America Stopped Making Its Own Clothes

Try this on for size: In 1960, an average American household spent over 10 percent of its income on clothing and shoes – equivalent to roughly $4,000 today. The average person bought fewer than 25...

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Lesson Plan: The Global Textile Industry

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