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The high price of cheap fashion

Workers in Bangladesh get 5p an hour. We get cheap, disposable fashion. Marisa Duffy looks at the real cost of our frenzy for throw-away fashion

What price fashion? A fetching pair of slingbacks? £6. Nice little black dress? £10. Cute wrap-around cardigan? £3. Bargain.