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Thinking Allowed: Global Clothing and Poverty; Fur Inheritance in Poland

25/03/2015

Global Clothing and Poverty; Fur Inheritance in Poland

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Global Clothing and Poverty; Fur Inheritance in Poland

Laurie Taylor explores the commodity chains in high fashion and second-hand clothing.

Laurie Taylor explores the commodity chains in high fashion and second-hand clothing. Plus fur, family and inheritance in middle-class Poland.

Jeans on a journey: Laurie Taylor talks to Andrew Brooks, Lecturer in Development Geography at Kings College London, about his study of the hidden world of fast fashion and second hand clothes.
Following a pair of jeans in an around-the-world tour, this research reveals the commodity chains which perpetuate poverty - from Mozambican markets to London's vintage clothing scene.

Fur, family and inheritance. Siobhan Magee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, discusses her research into the convention of passing down fur clothes from grandmother to granddaughter in the Polish middle class.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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