Where Am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes, by Kelsey Timmerman

Kelsey Timmerman travels in four countries living in the Midwest of the United States and is exploring his favorite clothing manufacturing base. His first adventure was to enter Honduras to find his T - shirt manufacturing facility. Unfortunately, this trip has no results. Without any contact, he was obviously denied access to the factory, but after talking to him he talked to one of the short-time workers. Although regarded as a failure, this trip planted seeds for further travel to Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, and the last US factory.

Timmerman has been more successful on these other trips. In Bangladesh, he entered the undercover factory as a buyer. He was not an exact person who made a boxer, but he was able to observe the workers and their working conditions. Cambodia is the sewing place of his Levi's jeans. Through his supervision, he discovered that the factory in Cambodia works well and there is little child labor. In China, he could not visit the factory, but he talked to a pair of flip-flops resembling his own one. On the surface, Chinese workers seem to have better conditions, the countries they visit have the highest wages. But Timmerman soon discovered that clothing workers forced hours overtime for hours and did not force many rules to protect them.

Timmerman is involved in the economics of the apparel industry, but his main concern is people and their harsh life. One of these workers is a family. Many of them left the small village and worked in the city and brought back the money home to support parents, brothers and sisters, and even their own children. Because there are few opportunities to go home, the slight wage in the manufacturing industry has brought some stability and hope for survival. To be thought, to clarify, Where do I wear? That is a story of human interest so that not only how our clothes are made but also the people who are making clothes.

When I began to read "Where I am wearing: Visiting the country, visiting the factory and making our clothes", I look forward to getting my ambivalent answer It is. However, I did not get an answer. Kelsey Timmerman, the author of this book, helped me ask new questions about the complexity of globalization, clothing industry and poverty, and the role I play as a consumer. Timmerman's research began with a simple act of checking clothing labels with an interest in the origins of his shirts, jeans, boxers, and flip-flops. Then he decided to travel as a secret buyer of clothes to meet those who arrive at these places - Honduras, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and China. He wants to know not only his own working conditions but also his name, personality, and dreams. He is somehow bridging the gap between producers and consumers, and I want to provide a face to the industry.

Kelsey Timmerman from the countryside of the Ohio region is the author of the book "Where I am wearing". It affected his interest in other countries because his floor was full of clothes. After Timmerman saw this, he saw the label of his clothes. Then he wants to know where his clothes come from. People around this book are American consumers. Timmerman wants them to lose the innocence of consumers. Because clothes are equal to people, he wants them to change their purchasing habits. Kelsey Timmerman wrote this book because he wanted American consumers to see exactly where their clothes came from. He wants them to understand people's lives ... more