High Cost Of Fashion Essay
Every year our views on fashion change constantly. Every season there is a new fashion choice which “you just gotta have to fit in.” American views on clothing have changed throughout this past century, with the safety of the workers, the cost and the convenience of clothing, and where we get clothes from. Before the Triangle Disaster factories didn’t have sprinklers or safe escapes, but after that fire that killed one hundred and thirty six people, New York has added more laws. Within a few years of this fire, New York has passed 36 safety laws, and banned child labor, and set a minimum wage for workers. This created more safe garment jobs for workers until recently. In the article The High Price of Cheap Fasion they inform citizens of what
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Forty years ago Americans spent seven percent of their money to spending on clothes. Where now Americans spend around three percent on clothing. Due to the cheaper prices they have let go of eighty percent of the garment workers. From the article of The High Price of Cheap Fashion, in 1920 the average middle class women owned nine outfits, in 1980 the average women shopped two to three times a year for different seasons, in 1991 the average women bought thirty four pieces of garment, and today the average person buys over sixty eight garments and eight pairs of shoes a year. Since prices of clothes have went down from 1920’s to today, clothes have become less important to us, ten pounds of clothes have been thrown away per year (Your Clothes by the Number). The world started to produce clothes for other countries in trade which had our views change on clothing. Statistics are shown in the article The High Price of Cheap Fashion, that before the 1970s all clothes were made in USA. In the 1990’s only fifty percent of clothes sold in the USA are actually made in the United States. From the statistics of Where your clothes come from forty percent of our clothes are from China. Throughout the years the industry of fashion has been developed. Since then American views have changed constantly. Views on safety laws, the cost and the convenience of clothes that Americans have, and the location of
Forty years ago Americans spent seven percent of their money to spending on clothes. Where now Americans spend around three percent on clothing. Due to the cheaper prices they have let go of eighty percent of the garment workers. From the article of The High Price of Cheap Fashion, in 1920 the average middle class women owned nine outfits, in 1980 the average women shopped two to three times a year for different seasons, in 1991 the average women bought thirty four pieces of garment, and today the average person buys over sixty eight garments and eight pairs of shoes a year. Since prices of clothes have went down from 1920’s to today, clothes have become less important to us, ten pounds of clothes have been thrown away per year (Your Clothes by the Number). The world started to produce clothes for other countries in trade which had our views change on clothing. Statistics are shown in the article The High Price of Cheap Fashion, that before the 1970s all clothes were made in USA. In the 1990’s only fifty percent of clothes sold in the USA are actually made in the United States. From the statistics of Where your clothes come from forty percent of our clothes are from China. Throughout the years the industry of fashion has been developed. Since then American views have changed constantly. Views on safety laws, the cost and the convenience of clothes that Americans have, and the location of