Fashion Feeds by Apparel Search

Fashion Feeds by Apparel Search provides access to a few of our blog, news and other industry related feeds. A feed takes the newest items from a publishing source and delivers them in a standard, machine-readable stream, so a reader, a news page or another website can show the latest headlines without anyone copying them across by hand.

Feeds were offered here in the syndication formats the web settled on for this job, RSS and Atom. Following them was a way to keep up with the apparel business between visits: gain a better understanding of the apparel industry with feeds, arriving a headline at a time, instead of checking each source page to see what had changed.

What a Feed Actually Delivers

A feed is a structured list that a publishing site keeps current: each entry carries a headline, a short summary and a link back to the full item. Software on the receiving end - a reader application, a portal page or a section of another website - checks the feed address at intervals and displays whatever is new. The publisher changes nothing about how it publishes; the feed simply announces each new item as it appears.

That arrangement suited fashion publishing well. News breaks on its own schedule, blogs post when they post, and industry updates arrive unevenly through the week. A single feed subscription gathered those scattered arrivals into one stream a follower could scan quickly, opening only the items that mattered and skipping the rest.

The Status of These Feeds

This page is no longer active. Unfortunately, Google discontinued their FeedBurner website, and the RSS feeds we created with FeedBurner no longer function. We apologize for the inconvenience.

FeedBurner was the service used to create and serve these feeds, so its discontinuation reaches every feed address that depended on it. A subscription pointed at one of those addresses has nothing left to fetch: the stream does not update, and no new blog, news or industry items arrive through it. The feeds are therefore presented here as a record of what was offered, not as a working subscription.

Blog, News and Industry Feeds

The feeds gathered here came in three broad kinds, matching the publishing Apparel Search itself does. Blog feeds carried the newest posts from the fashion blog side of the guide. News feeds carried fashion news items as they were published. And other industry related feeds carried updates from the wider directory - the sort of additions and changes that help a follower understand where the apparel industry is moving.

Keeping the three kinds side by side on one page was deliberate. A reader who only wanted headlines could take the news stream; a reader following commentary could take the blog stream; and a trade reader could watch the industry stream for directory movement. Each feed stood on its own, and taking one never required taking the others.

Adding Feed Content to a Blog or Website

Are you looking for fashion content feeds to possibly add to your fashion blog or fashion website? That was the other half of what this corner of the guide existed for: site owners could carry a stream of fashion items on their own pages, giving their visitors fresh headlines alongside their own writing. The companion page, Add Fashion Feed Content to Your Website, covers that use directly.

Because the FeedBurner feeds behind that offer no longer function, an embedded feed block fed by one of those addresses would sit empty today. Website owners working through that problem will find the closest living relatives of the idea in the two options below - small, self-contained content blocks designed to sit on someone else's page.

Widgets and Gadgets Instead

You may also want to try fashion widgets or fashion gadgets in addition to fashion feeds. Widgets and gadgets were the feed era's other answer to the same need: a compact unit of fashion content, built to be placed on a blog or website, that brings its material with it rather than depending on a feed address staying alive.

Readers who followed feeds for the headlines themselves still have a direct route: the RSS Fashion News Feeds page gathers the news side of the guide in one place. And visitors with an interest in how fashion content gets labeled and found may also have interest in learning about fashion tags, the keywords attached to posts and pages across the blog world. Thank you for using the Apparel Search website.