Below is the link to a fascinating interview with the author of "One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding" by Rebecca Mead.
http://www.indiebride.com/interviews/mead/index.html
The part about wedding dress sweatshops is really sobering (and in stark contrast to my previous, giddy post about the fun of trying on wedding dresses!) because it forces you to realize that the women making the gowns that every American girl "needs" for her dream wedding, have lives and loves and dreams and weddings of their own, at which a wedding dress of the kind they make every day for a pittance is too expensive to afford. Most consumer goods - especially apparel - are like that. The people making them can't afford to buy them. Which kind of sucks, but is difficult to avoid in this global economy. But is it impossible to avoid? Next project: is there a company that makes "sweatshop-free" wedding dresses? It seems like there must be at least one that has a shred of social responsibility on the subject.
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