Dialogical Essay - Fast Fashion

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Your ideas seem to be contradictory because in reality second hand clothings is helping rather than hindering. By continuing rampant consumerism as well as changing waste disposal practices it would ensure a growing supply of American used clothing for the market. Therefore, the fashion movement starts with keeping the environment safe.

Karen Hansen: I understand your concern for the environment Dr. Claudio and I deeply sympathize with the underpaid workers in countries all over the world Mrs. Cline. But I do not need to be a so called expect to understand serious present problems. You should understand the impact second hand clothing puts on foreign countries because you have embedded a quotation from Cambridge University in your article. It read:

A report in 2006 titled Well Dressed? The Present and Future Sustainability of Clothing and Textiles in the United Kingdom, in which it raised concerns that trade in secondhand clothes in African countries inhibits development of local industries even as it creates employment in these countries. (Waste 5)

You displayed in your own work the importance of slowing down the fashion cycle so we do not have such an excessive amount of second hand clothing in the first place. These items do it fact help put clothes on the poors back, but how do you expect a country to develop if the United States is holding back their economy. We must find another place for all of these textiles to live other than filling up foreign countries clothing markets such as recycling them for other products. Regulations must be set forth for how many pounds or bundles can be forced upon other countries because they hinder their economy.

Elizabeth Cline: I am somewhat familiar with your work Mrs. Hansen and your concern for their economy is sweet. The United States also helps foreign countries boost their economy by creating jobs in retail factories. Their economy is important but it should be the last concern for us because there are people and ecosystems being destroyed. If we improve the working conditions for these foreign factories and increase their wages then they could live a more enjoyable life. These people make pocket change compared to what American rack in and it is morally wrong. It is interest how you state in your article:

Many large importers of second-hand clothing in South and Southeast Asia, such as Pakistan and Hong Kong, are also textile and garment exporters, putting an interesting spin on arguments about the negative effects of used clothing imports on domestic textile and garment industries. (Hindering 4)

Foreign exporters are not completely hopeless in fact they are able to export to first world countries such as the United States. Yes, there is an overload of second hand clothing but it helps more than it hindering other countries. I have said this before, but the movement starts with the people and after that everything we fall into place.

Karen Hansen: Have you ever considered that these countries do not want to dress like us? That they do not want our discarded belongings? These foreign countries have their own customs and fashion and they should not have our United States “trendy” clothes thrown upon them. All of our donating clothing it brought to a sorting mill and many of the workers piece out severely damaged goods as well as nicer garments to be sold on the foreign market. The remainder is usually compressed into standard 50-kg bales, although some firms compress bales of much greater weight, usually containing unsorted clothing. “The lowest-quality clothing goes to Africa and medium-quality to Latin America, while Japan receives a large proportion of top-quality items” (Hindering 3). Not only are poor countries being robbed of their ability to conduct successful manufacturing, but they are also given the short hand of the stick for hammy downs. The fashion industry is obviously making a lot of unethical decisions, but fast fashion is not slowing down anytime soon. Why should we waste our time trying to control large corporations when they are going to do their best to find loop holes? We must attack the smaller market in order to build our way up to fixing the biggest problem just as you arrest a dealer in order to find the supplier.