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To buy or not to buy, that is the question: Wary shoppers slow retail sales

Published onJune 2, 2019June 22, 2020

Mannequins doing their best to incite consumer desire; photo by George Shervashidze, from Pexels

Quarterly financial reports often portend the future. The retail apparel numbers are out for the first quarter of 2019, and they aren’t pretty. Sales dropped by 24 percent, the biggest decline since the first quarter of 2008, when they were a bellwether for the last recession. People aren’t buying clothing. Maybe some of them read

Fast Fashion: The environmental threat hiding in your closet

Published onApril 23, 2019May 5, 2019

Columns/Fashion/popup-paywall/Sheila Velazquez/The Elements

When we think of pollution, we tend to think of single issues like air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and the bottom line, the climate change that is exacerbated by the production process. But the fashion industry encompasses all of these — the “Four Horsemen” if you will. And it destroys lives.…

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