Muncie author Kelsey Timmerman will speak May 7 about his book “Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes”. Timmerman will speak during a forum at Warsaw Community Public Library at 1 p.m. His speaking engagement is free and open to the community. People can register for the program by visiting www.warsawlibrary.org and go to the calendar on the lower left and click on the event, or call 574-267-6011 and ask for the reference desk. Timmerman is a freelance writer who focuses on globalization, travel and the outdoors. He has spent the night in Castle Dracula in Romania, gone undercover as an underwear buyer in Bangladesh, played PlayStation in Kosovo, taught an island village to play baseball in Honduras and worked as a SCUBA instructor in Key West, Fla. While cleaning up his room one day, Timmerman noticed the tag on his favorite shirt that said Made in Honduras. Timmerman’s curiosity about the people who made his shirt got the best of him, so he set out to explore. Timmerman recounts his experience traveling to the countries where his five favorite items of clothing were made. “Where Am I Wearing?” bridges the gap between global producers and consumers by introducing readers to the human elements of globalization – names, personalities, hopes and dreams – with the economic and political elements serving as a backdrop. As Timmerman travels to factories in Honduras, Cambodia, Bangladesh and China, he confronts some disconcerting questions on the way. Timmerman examines factories that supply places where average Americans buy their clothes.On the way, he discovers as much about the people who make the clothes as he does about clothing and globalization. Bouncing between two very different worlds – that of impoverished garment workers and his own Western lifestyle - he marvels at America’s reliance on developing nations to supply clothes, and the developing nation’s reliance on Americans to buy them.
