Andrew Morgan The True Cost

The True Cost by Andrew Morgan was very interesting to watch and learn more about the impact of fashion industries. Andrew Morgan wanted to capture the story about clothes and the people who make the clothes, and the impact that it has in the world. His goal was to show how cloth industries are about greed, fear, power, and poverty; it is a complex topic that extends all over the world. He made this documentary in hopes that it makes viewers change in the way viewers think about the clothes viewers wear and how they spend their money. He goes on to show by interviewing people that work in the top end of the fashion industry and the people that work in the factories (garment workers) with low wages and awful human right policies. As the documentary

They are cutting corners because of the fast fashion trends. Every week, the fashion industries have different trends, making the other trends that came before outdated. This aspect also touches on our society and advertisement, how our society is mostly materialistic and how advertisement pushes for materialistic ideologies. Advertisements show you how to solve your problems by buying things to make yourself happy. This also creates a problem not only in our society, but also to our environment because so many people buy the trending things and throw out the outdated clothes or donate them. This creates an enormous number of clothes that are going to developing countries, and instead of helping, it is creating environmental issues because there are too many clothes that are being thrown out and the developing countries do not need them. Overall, it is about the profit, not the true cost because the costs are great. The fashion industries are not thinking about the pollution they are creating, water contaminations, health issues, and environment

In this documentary, we see mostly women working for factories as garment workers and the main mangers or higher office holders are men. This could be because of discrimination in education, and not having a fair opportunity in the work place, or other gaps in the global and developing countries perspective. In addition, the governments do not have policies passed to protect their workers; this could be because of corruption, the government wants to make money and the industries are putting them in hard positions that they do not place many policies to protect garment workers. The developing countries are competing with other countries that the industries could go to for cheaper labor and manufacture. This increases struggle, and poverty especially, as we saw in the documentary, for women and children. Working conditions were not great; the buildings were falling apart, in some areas the workers are exposed to the chemical produced form the clothes, they do not have proper equipment’s to protect themselves, and their bosses made them stay very long hours with very little break. This causes health issues and an unsafe environment to work in. The institution, in this case, is the fashion industry that is taking advantage of the developing countries to get a better, cheaper, and easier way for them to manufacture clothes without taking inconsideration the