Apparel Search Company Websites Page 2

This is page 2 of the Apparel Search Company Websites list. A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name and published on at least one web server - and that is exactly what the links below lead to: the various fashion websites created by the Apparel Search Company, continued from page 1.

The seven sites on this page lean toward the industry's working infrastructure: an incubator for new designers, a printed-clothing site, an events calendar, a business-to-business search engine and a true company directory, with a fashion blog and a fashion newspaper keeping the publishing side represented. Each has its own description page in this section, linked at the top.

Makers and Sellers

The New York Fashion Incubator entry covers the incubator subject - support for emerging designers in the industry's American capital. Printed Clothing covers the printed-garment side of the trade, the decorated apparel that fills everything from band merchandise to corporate uniforms. Fashion Salad is the company's blog presence, the site the FashionBlog.us blog was combined into.

These three share a trait: each serves a community that produces something - designs, garments, posts - rather than only reading. The incubator nurtures companies, the printed clothing site serves the decorators, and the blog is where the company's own voice went out.

The Working Infrastructure

The Fashion Industry Calendar is the events site: a calendar where industry members could post trade shows, exhibits, fashion week events and launch parties free of charge. Clothing B2B is the business-to-business search engine, ClothingB2B.com, built for trade searching rather than consumer browsing. The Clothing Industry Directory is the family's true directory - company listings only, independently maintained, with members able to update their own profiles.

The Fashion Newspaper completes the page: the company's news-facing site, counterpart to the news and media resources on Apparel Search itself. Calendar, search, directory, newspaper - four different machines for the same underlying job of keeping an industry findable and informed.

More Sites Beyond This Page

Above are a few of the company's sites; there are more. Page 3 of this series continues with the blog family and the guide's own subject pages, and page 4 lists the subject directories and the long roll of sites that were closed or sold. The series block at the bottom of this page links every page of the four.

One external companion is worth noting here: India Fashion, at indiafashion.org, is kept in the references below as the page's outward link among this page's entries - a reminder that the family's web reached beyond its own domains to the industry's other regional guides.