Fashion in the age of climate change
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, |
| 0:05.0 | it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post. |
| 0:08.0 | Post is Sarah Kaplan. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, this is Elias Adi with the Washington Post. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:14.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Tuesday, December 24th. |
| 0:22.0 | Today, the challenges of dressing both fashionably and ethically, |
| 0:28.0 | plus a little women for every generation. |
| 0:36.0 | One of the interesting conversations that I had was with Dana Tana, |
| 0:39.0 | who has written about fast fashion and the question of sustainability, |
| 0:44.0 | and is it possible to buy one perfect white shirt, |
| 0:48.0 | a shirt that is just not going to do damage to the environment? |
| 0:54.0 | She felt that she had come close to that, |
| 0:58.0 | but the cost of that shirt is significant. |
| 1:02.0 | How much did that shirt cost? |
| 1:04.0 | She had spent well over $500 on a single white shirt. |
| 1:08.0 | On a single white shirt. |
| 1:10.0 | But one of the other to me most fascinating things is that |
| 1:14.0 | the cost of clothing has gone down compared to so many other things. |
| 1:20.0 | So the amount that we consume is really extraordinary. |
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