In this article (yes, it’s long, could have been very easily much longer) some details about how much your jeans costs. For the planet, for the future.
Excerpt (according to bestselling journalist Dana Thomas in her new book Fashionopolis):
“Making the industry’s 80 billion garments per year requires huge amounts of water and toxic chemicals. It employs every sixth person on Earth—most in dangerous conditions for very little money. Fast fashion also produces mountains of clothes that go unsold or are discarded and end up in garbage dumps and landfills.”