Why Do Women’s Clothes Cost So Much? The Pink Tax and the Fashion Industry
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Why Do Women’s Clothes Cost So Much? The Pink Tax and the Fashion Industry

Products ranging in use from personal hygiene, beauty, clothing, and even children’s toys cost more for women than they do for men. These products, which are often virtually identical in use and sometimes lower in quality are marked up for women for no reason other than marketing. Because these products are often pink when marketed to women, this difference has been dubbed the ‘pink tax’.

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Carhartt, Streetwear, and the Never Ending Search for Authenticity
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Carhartt, Streetwear, and the Never Ending Search for Authenticity

Workwear as streetwear is back in a big way, and has been for a few years. Carhartt went from a brand supplying uniforms to railway workers to a streetwear staple with designer collaborations. To what extent is this trend appropriative, and to what extent is it a symbol of the ubiquitous nature of durable, affordable clothing?

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