Made in USA
1/16/202635 min
This is one of the best pieces of fashion reporting I have ever heard: it's a reworked version of a story that originally aired on the NPR podcast Planet Money.
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First 90 secondsSarah Gonzalez· Guest0:00
...The idea started out, f- I have a four-year-old and a one-year-old, but when I had my first baby, I remember she would just be, like, laying on my chest or in my arms or on my lap, and, you know, I used to buy, like, really kind of crappy fast fashion clothes. Like, I just, like, grew up shopping at, like, the $5 Store, which I loved, and I remember being like, "Oh, I really wanna buy at least, like, good T-shirts so that her little face and her little mouth as she sleeps on me is, like, on something that I can feel good about her, like, laying on." So then I set out for, like, a year and a half to try to find a T-shirt that I could feel good about, a T-shirt that looks good, that feels good, that is good for the environment, and then ideally, the last layer was, like, good labor practices.
Avery Trufelman· Host0:52
Sarah Gonzalez usually covers economics.
Sarah Gonzalez· Guest0:54
I mean, I don't cover fashion.
Avery Trufelman· Host0:56
She's a reporter and host of the NPR podcast, Planet Money.
Sarah Gonzalez· Guest1:00
We're an economics podcast, and we're, like, fun and narrative.
Avery Trufelman· Host1:04
So Sarah found herself in a pickle that a lot of us might relate to, [pensive music] which is this eternal question: How do we buy clothing ethically? Is that even possible?
Sarah Gonzalez· Guest1:16
[scoffs] I mean, it's so hard to be a good shopper, you know? And then you have, like, children, and they grow out of things, and so you have to buy them more things. I'm, like, a bad consumer. Like, where should I buy this