Overdressed Quotes

“Clothes could have more meaning and longevity if we think less about owning the latest or cheapest thing and develop more of a relationship with the things we wear. Building a wardrobe over time, saving up and investing in well-made pieces, obsessing over the perfect hem, luxuriating in fabrics, and patching and altering our clothes are old-fashioned habits. But they’re also deeply satisfying”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

“If consumers weren’t so focused on quantity over quality and trends over innovative design, the price of domestic production might not seem so exorbitant.”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

“Buying so much clothing, and treating it as if it is disposable, is putting a huge added weight on the environment and is simply unsustainable.”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

“Over the past two decades, American consumers have accepted, and benefited from, the race to the bottom in fashion.”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

“Carbon monoxide and other pollutants from Asia have been documented on the West Coast since the late 1990s and are actually affecting weather patterns there as well. Global climate change as a result of global industrialization is now a reality, no matter where we live. I”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

“There are very few high-quality garments being produced at all. A very, very, very small amount. So small that most people never even see it in their lifetimes. People are wearing rags, basically.”
― Elizabeth L. Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion