’Fast Fashion’ is a contemporary term used to describe the fast lapse in which outfits highlighting current trends are designed and disseminated to retailers. Some stores follow this philosophy and extend it to their manufacturing and outsourcing practices. ’Fast Fashion’ is made quickly and inexpensively – allowing us, in turn, to purchase massive amounts of clothing at a super cheap price. The shoppers are always satisfied.

But, our satisfaction comes with a huge price tag: a price tag that those in the Western World do not feel obligated nor entitled to pay. The documentary “The True Cost” presents the dangers, the violations, the trauma, and the greed that are all part of creating clothes meant to induce brief euphoria for the bargain hunter. The Western World doesn’t have to carry the burden of loss, pain, and mistreatment that factory workers experience: all we have to carry is our shopping bags from store to store.

Adaptado de McIntee, D. The True cost of Fast Fashion (online). 14 set. 2015.

www.theodysseyonline.com