The True Cost Trailer Shows the Human Toll of Fast Fashion
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Conscious clothing consumers know about the human rights issues that fast fashion poses—those cheap, trendy t-shirts everyone cops at retail chains were most likely made by mostly-women garment workers doing their jobs in terrible conditions for astonishingly little pay. The fires and building collapse at factories in Bangladesh raised the profile of the inhumanity of fast fashion, but I haven’t seen anything as devastating and stark as the footage used in the trailer for The True Cost, a new documentary about just that: the true cost of unethically affordable clothing in a world where globalization has made the economic gap untenable and unsustainable.