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...team, and without a given moniker, how are we supposed to unite 20 years from now and reminisce about the good old days? For the sake of a name, how about we call ourselves the Dolphins? That is a truly uplifting appellation, and easy to put on a t-shirt...
...this stripe in my shirt is green,” he said—it was blue—“and St. Patrick’s Day is a stupid holiday, anyway. I don’t understand it. You just drink and wear green...
...Womenareassmartasmen? Have you ever known a man to buy a shirt that buttons up the back...
...made your T shirt?" A speaker at a 1999 Georgetown University student protest against sweatshops turned that question into an accusation. Pietra Rivoli, a professor of business, heard something more: a challenge to find the answer. A few weeks later, she bought a T shirt and began tracing its path from Texas cotton farm to Chinese factory to charity bin. The result is an engrossing new book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Wiley; 254 pages...
Following a T shirt around the world is a gimmicky narrative device, but it frees Rivoli from the usual debate over global trade. She goes wherever the T shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner. In China, Rivoli shows why a clothing factory, despite its harsh conditions, represents a step toward personal freedom for the women who work there. In the kaleidoscopic used-clothing bazaars of Tanzania, she realizes that "it is only in this final stage of life that the t-shirt will meet a real market," where the price of a shirt changes by the hour...