Okay, so the funny thing about recording a podcast from your home during a quarantine

is that you might end up spending a lot of time in your closet.

It may seem strange, but you get the best sound in a small room with

lots of padding. So the reason I'm telling you this is because today's episode is about

clothes. And there's no better place to talk about them than here in my very full, very disorganized closet.

The thing is I love shopping. Shopping makes me feel good. It's exciting and the decision about

whether or not to buy something has always boiled down to two things. One, how badly I wanted it and two, whether or not I could afford

it. But what if the real cost of my clothes has nothing to do with the price tag?

I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters. Today

what is fast fashion and what is it doing to our world. Get in, loser, we're going shopping.

40,000 dollars on shoes and I have no place to live? Yes, yes. There are a ton of matching

separates out there in stores right now and it's really fun. Their trends are

just always on point. I grabbed I think 17 items. The top was 1499. The skirt was 3499. We all love this shop. And these days the newest style and clothes are cheaper than ever.

We buy a lot of clothes.

Fast fashion. Fast fashion. Fast fashion. Fast fashion. Fast fashion. Fast fashion. Fast fashion.

Fast fashion. So what fast fashion is fast fashion means is just the rate of turnover of

clothing in stores every several weeks.

I'm Linda Greer and I'm an environmental toxicologist.

I study and advocate on industrial toxic chemical pollution.

So back in the day, stores basically had four seasons and you went in seasonally to buy whatever clothing that you wanted and your expectations

were not such that if you went back in in two weeks you would buy it all over again.

But then with Fast Fashion, basically this dramatic lowering of prices and a new sort of marketing model that draws consumers in at any time to see what's new.

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