NPR - - Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt

[Zelko-4-EVA]

The world behind a simple T shirt in 5 chapters

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

[mimosatexas]

kind of sucks that they don't actually mention the printing...just skip the whole end of the process :/

[blue moon]

pretty cool. Thanx for posting it!

pierre

[GKitson]

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!


~Kitson

[IntegrityShirts]

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