Where Underpants Come From
Where Underpants Come from: From Checkout to Cotton Field – Travels Through the New China
by Joe Bennett
—Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
It is probably safe to say that most consumers are awed by how inexpensive everyday household items have become. Of course, a sense that stuff is cheap thanks to China is good enough for most of us — we don’t have a second thought about our discount shopping.
But Joe Bennett is not most people. While perusing the underwear section in his local department store, Bennett, a New Zealand travel writer, …