There is no one anywhere in the world who needs another t-shirt. This was a truth I heard from , a Georgetown economist who followed the path of a single t-shirt. She visits the cotton fields of Texas where her t-shirt was born and ends up in a small village in Africa, the retirement home for clothing the western world has put to pasture. Pietra wrote a fabulous book about her research; . It made me think about all the t-shirts I’ve collected back in the day, and what kind of stuff I’m collecting today.
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