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Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.
Environment
How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana
This is a patched work coat, or noragi, that likely never began as a full garment, but was rather made from multiple, very small patches — some of them the size of a postage stamp — that were all sewn together to create an area of cloth, and then layered.
Arts, Culture & Media
Some Japanese will pay $4,500 for an old Missouri prisoner uniform. Me, I collect Japanese ‘boro’
Conflict & Justice
French Government Strikes Down 200-Year-Old Pants Ban for Women
Water Footprinting
Blue Jeans, Blue Water
Water Footprinting
Water Footprinting
Blue Jeans, Blue Water
Global Politics
The top cotton producers
Environment
Water footprinting
Business, Economics and Jobs
Get Ready Consumers: Prices are on the Rise