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T-Shirt Travels

T-Shirt Travels

2001 · Film · documentary · 57 min

Directed by Shantha Bloemen

Documentary

What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes in Zambia.

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  1. PositivecpetersoApr 8, 2011

    The PBS TV series "Independent Lens" had an episode ("T-Shirt Travels") about groups in Africa that import American thrift store t-shirts by the bushel and resell them. Very interesting (and economical).

    http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/tshirttravels/film.html

  2. Positiveck2Feb 3, 2011

    I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with what you did.

    On the other hand however, I also think that some people have way too much money on their hands or a lack of intelligent spending habits if they are buying stuff like this. We are a very strange country indeed.

    Have you ever seen the packets of clothing that are sold to vendors in third-world countries by the likes of Goodwill and such? They are full of t-shirts like this from 10, even 20 years ago and kids running around wearing them, barefoot and starving, while they put the hope for any local clothing industry out of business. Very strange stuff.

    aha, found the link: T-SHIRT TRAVELS

    http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/tshirttravels/film.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeCIlgUeYlM