Our men's t-shirt was made here, in this factory in Bangladesh.
Here's one of the people who made it:
Our women's t-shirt was made here in this factory in Colombia.
Doris and Jasmine share a job, but they're separated by the economic realities of the countries they live in.
Bangladesh is much poorer than Colombia,
and the role the garment industry plays in Bangladesh, the role of our t-shirts is very different.
Jasmine Akhtar lives with her brother, sister-in-law and a roommate in a tiny rooming house.
There's no running water just the gas stove to cook.
There's a small TV and a bookcase that holds all her belongings.
She leaves for work at 7 A.M. each day, six days a week.
She makes one of the lowest wages in the world about 80 bucks a month.
Jasmine has been working in clothing factories since she was 16 years old and she is not alone.
Four million people in Bangladesh work in the garment industry.
It's double the number from a decade ago.
Which raises the question: What has driven 4 million people to work long hours in these factories for some of the lowest wages in the world?
To answer that question we went back with Jasmine to the village where she grew up.
A lot of garment workers come from villages like Jasmine's,
where people worry about getting enough food to eat and sometimes don't.
And where girls are seen as an economic burden.
The solution: Find a husband with the means to support your daughter,
but finding a good husband costs money, a dowry.
In Jasmine's family, her older sister's dowry sent the family into debt.
This was Jasmine's trade-off: Long hours, monotonous low-wage job,
but in a factory she says, that feels safe better than others she's worked in.
An improvement, however slight over a life of even more crushing poverty in her village.
In the middle of our t-shirt project, the worst garment industry disaster in history happened in Bangladesh.
The factory collapse at Rana Plaza.
Suddenly, the world was considering questions that we'd been considering: Who are the people that make our clothes?
What are their lives like?
More than a thousand people died that day.
They died seeking the same things that Jasmine was seeking.
A few more calories in their diet, the chance maybe to pay off a debt.
They died in other words trying to make the same trade-off that Jasmine had, a life of extreme poverty for one slightly better off.
Our women's t-shirt was made in the country with a much more advanced economy, Columbia.
Things that are different. Doris Restrepo lives there with her mother in a small apartment
and she supports the two of them on the salary she earns at the factory, where our shirts were made.
Doris makes almost four times what Jasmine makes in Bangladesh and can imagine a life outside the garment industry.
Doris has a small side business selling pastries door-to-door
and dreams of one day opening her own business.
In Colombia, the garment industry is just an industry
but in Bangladesh, it's a social upheaval.
Millions of women like Jasmine, living lives that just twenty years ago would have been hard to imagine.
Lives filled with new risks and new possibilities.
Most of the money Jasmine earns at the factory, she sends home to her family.
But she keeps about ten bucks a month for herself, for food or maybe an impulse purchase on her one day off a week.
We talked to both labor activists and factory owners about the impact of our t-shirt on the lives of people in Bangladesh.
Is our shirt providing opportunities for people like Jasmine or is it taking advantage of a desperate population?
Both the activists and the owners told us the same thing: That the worst possible outcome from tragedies like the factory collapse at Rana Plaza
would be for the garment industry to leave Bangladesh altogether.
What they don't agree on, what they're fighting about right now what more needs to be done to improve the lives of workers in Bangladesh
and what does it all have to do with the price of our t-shirt.