New at Reason: Joanne McNeil on the Afterlife of American Clothes

From our August/September issue, Joanne McNeil chronicles the Haitian entrepreneurs who've found value in castoff American clothes.

Read all about it here.

Comments

Sakitume | July 25, 2008, 12:07pm | #

These guys are hardly the first entrepreneurs to seek a profit off of castoff clothes:

http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp

Warren | July 25, 2008, 12:13pm | #

I haven't seen the film, but I believe this book is better.

Zach | July 25, 2008, 1:26pm | #

I saw the same thing in Ghana. It was a little weird to see Ghanaians wearing shirts from places you used to vacation as a child or your university. On the upside, you could often get some pretty cool stuff dirt cheap. I still have a Mighty Mouse t-shirt I picked up over there for $0.50.

abdullah | July 28, 2008, 12:00pm | #

kind of explains why you see pictures of armed rebels in africa and south america wearing chicago bears super bowl xx hats, and z cavaricci t-shirts.

bob | July 31, 2008, 8:37am | #

there ya go we can sell them old clothes, while they eat dirt, but selling them are unwanted pets for food, out of the question.