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75: That $7 Shirt Is Making You Sick: Fast Fashion vs. the World

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What's the Turning Point in Fast Fashion?

Up until the 60s, 95% of clothing was still made in America. Now everything is all about cheap and fast. Big brands outsourcing labor to sweat shops and factories over to countries like China,. Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh. These places where labor laws were not really a thing were beneficial to keep costs low.

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