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Offline Zelko-4-EVA

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NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
« on: December 02, 2013, 06:28:21 PM »
The world behind a simple T shirt in 5 chapters

http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title
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Re: NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 06:39:18 PM »
kind of sucks that they don't actually mention the printing...just skip the whole end of the process :/
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Re: NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2013, 10:11:51 AM »
pretty cool. Thanx for posting it!

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Re: NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2013, 10:31:31 AM »
Quote from: Zelko-4-EVA on December 02, 2013, 06:28:21 PM
The world behind a simple T shirt in 5 chapters

http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title


Caught part of this on my drive home Monday night, of course I never hear the rest of the story.

Thanks for the post!


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Re: NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2013, 12:39:04 PM »
Well, they certainly didn't sugar-coat the life of the worker in Bangladesh. Yikes.

And their numbers on cost to ship in the U.S. are misleading.

Everything was an economy of scale up to that point.

.07 cents per shirt to ship around the world (container full of shirts)
.60 cents per shirt in cotton (bulk purchase of cotton)
.90 cents per shirt to print (I'm sure they printed more than one!)
$2.70 per shirt for shipping to your door (oh ok now we'll give you the cost to ship 1 shirt USPS in a poly bag anywhere in the U.S.)

I had no idea of the history of the garment industry and Nixon in the 70's

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