The Price of a T-shirt

Mia found a T-shirt in a shop window last Saturday.

It looked soft and modern, and the price was only nine dollars.

She bought it quickly without thinking about how it was made.

Later, her friend Leo asked her a simple question: "Who made this shirt, and where?" Mia looked at the label but found no clear answer.

Curious, she searched online that evening.

She learned that many cheap clothes are made in factories where workers earn very little.

These workers often sew for twelve hours a day, and some are only teenagers.

Mia felt uncomfortable because she had never thought about them before.

The next day, she visited a second-hand shop instead of the mall.

There she found a blue jacket that someone had worn before.

It cost a little more than the T-shirt, but she liked its story.

Buying less and choosing used clothes, she realized, can be a small but real choice against fast fashion.