books on the history of textiles and sewists, on the evolution of clothing, and on the overconsumption that drives fast fashion—and destroys the environment—and why we should all buy secondhand
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last updated April, 2026
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Leah Thomas
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Slave to Fashion
Safia Minney
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economies, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
Danny Caine
Against Amazon: and Other Essays
Jorge Carrión
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
Christopher Mims
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
Dana Thomas
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Elizabeth L. Cline
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
Anna Qu
Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
Alison Matthews David
The Factory Girls: A Kaleidoscopic Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Christine Siefert
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St. Clair
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
Clara Parkes
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Sofi Thanhauser
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change
Aja Barber
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