No Sweat: Open Source Apparel

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 24, 2007 5:21 PM EDT
WorldChanging; By Sarah Rich
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The larger the garment industry has become, the more apparel companies have operated opaque businesses and employed questionable (if not abominable) practices in order to keep up with the goliath scale of manufacturing. At this point, most consumers have at least partial awareness of the perilous conditions of sweatshops, but the majority of clothes still come from behind a veil; and because consumers know how limited our choices are for goods with a transparent backstory, we don't always choose to try to see what's behind that closed source.

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