Fast Fashion

I would say that both the podcast and article bring different things on the table. The article is bringing more of a historical artifact and the podcast is going on the more modern type of fashion compared to the Great Depression era. From the author of the article “How Depression-Era Women Made Dresses Out of Chicken Feed”, Rebecca Onion does bring a lot to the table, she’s a culture/history writer for many different news sources and has a Masters and Bachelors in American Studies. She uses sources from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian National Museum of American History through pictures of products that women wore in the Depression era, she also explains the culture behind it, explaining how wearing these chicken feed fabric outfits was a symbol of poverty. Not only does she use photographs from those times and real products as well, but she also has another source that could help her argument of how fashion has really evolved since then. It actually connects to the podcast meaning, it has a somewhat connection. From the podcast, they talk about how there are multiple issues within the industry. The podcast itself has been around for a quite a while, since 2009. But, the overall purpose of the podcast is for conversations of feminism. It’s very organized and not really off-topic, the particular episode goes into environmental problems that come with Fast Fashion, along with companies that considered fast fashion. What’s different compared to the article, the podcast has two people in it instead of just one’s opinion. Therefore, potentially, there could be a different perspective on things or just even different ways of thinking or one person thinking of something that the other person would’ve never thought of beforehand.