Dangers of Fashion

Sara B. Marcketti is Director of the Center of Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Professor of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management at Iowa State University, USAElena E. Karpova is Putnam and Hayes Distinguished Professor of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPart 1 – Moral and Ethical Dangers in Fashion 1. Introduction Sara B. Marcketti and Elena E. Karpova 2. Moral Dilemmas in the Fashion Business Jung Ha-Brookshire 3. Sustainability [Must] Drive Design Elizabeth Bye 4. Stealing Fashion Designs Sara B. Marcketti, Jean Parsons, and Hallie Erdahl Part 2 – The Dangers of Making Fashion5. Fibres and Materials: What is Fashion Made of? Huantian Cao 6. Fashion: An Unrecognized Contributor to the Climate Change Kim Y. Hiller Connell and Melody L. A. LeHew 7. The Dangers in the Fashion Supply Chain: Offshore vs. Domestic Sourcing Ting Chi and Sheng Lu 8. A Look at Labour Issues in Manufacture of Apparel through the Perspective of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery Marsha Dickson and Hayley Warren9. Exodus to Elsewhere: Exploring the Effects of Fashion Industry Globalization on Local Communities Nancy HodgesPart 3 – The Dangers of Consuming Fashion 10. Taking offense: A discussion of fashion, appropriation, and cultural insensitivity Denise Nicole Green and Susan B. Kaiser 11. Striving to Fit In Kelly L. Reddy-Best12. Pain in [From] Fashion Ellen McKinney and Eulanda A. Sanders Part 4 – The Dangers of Caring for and Disposing Fashion13. A Consumer Perspective on Clothing Care: Economic, Environmental and Social Costs Pam Norum and Rachel LoMonaco-Benzing 14. Disposing Fashion: From the Ugly… Jana M. Hawley and Elena E. Karpova 15. Disposing Fashion 2: …To the Good Elena E. Karpova and Jana M. Hawley 16. Conclusion Elena E. Karpova and Sara B. Marcketti Index

As leaders in their field, Karpova, Marcketti, and their impressive roster of authors were uniquely qualified to take on the task of creating this compilation of contemporarily significant studies on the most pressing, interconnected challenges inthe modern fashion system. Readers of The Journal of Dress History will find this book to be a valuable resource to turn to when examining garments, the conditions under which they were made, and the questions that arise from their production and consumption.