The Unlikely Love Affair: How I Became a China Shopping Convert Let me paint you a picture. It’s 3 AM in my Brooklyn apartment. The scent of stale coffee hangs in the air, competing with the faint chemical smell of a newly unboxed polyester dress that arrived from some fast-fashion website. I’m staring at my credit card statement, feeling that familiar pit in my stomach—the one reserved for regrettable impulse buys and overpriced, poorly made garments. That was me, six months ago. A self-proclaimed “conscious consumer” who somehow kept falling into the same trap of buying cheap, disposable fashion that fell apart after two washes. I was skeptical, to put…