Apparel Search Company Websites Page 4

In this area you will find more of the fashion-relevant websites developed by the Apparel Search Company - page 4 of the series, and the most historical of the four. Its first half lists the subject directories, the family's directory fleet; its second half is the record of what happened to the fleet: most of these directories closed in November and December 2013, when they were consolidated into the Clothing Industry Directory website, and the page keeps their names and dates.

If you have suggestions regarding ways to improve any of these guides, they are welcome - some sites are still in early stages and others more advanced, and improvements continue when time is available. But read this page as the family's archive as much as its catalog: several entries below are kept for historical reference, and each links to its own description page in this section where one exists.

The Fashion Industry Directories

The directory fleet covered the industry subject by subject. The Children's Fashion Directory served sellers, manufacturers and wholesalers of children's clothing. The Clothing Factory Directory listed clothing and textile factories. The Fashion Technology Directory covered fashion software and technology services, the Textile Industry Directory listed fabric companies, and the Textile Machinery Directory listed machinery manufacturers and distributors.

The Women's Fashion Directory and the Men's Fashion Directory split the trade by market, the Trims and Notions Directory covered fashion trimming - zippers, buttons, labels, hangtags, hangers and the like - the Fashion Boutique Directory listed specialty stores, and the Wholesale Apparel Directory listed clothing wholesalers across women's, men's and children's lines, with sections for wholesale fabric, machinery and trims. Their subjects survive inside Apparel Search: the topic links below - children's, women's and men's fashion, factories, software, textiles, machinery, trimming, retail and wholesale - are where those directories' ground is covered now.

Closed, Sold and Consolidated

The fashion industry directories listed above closed in November 2013; the company decided to consolidate them into the ClothingIndustryDirectory.com website, and they are listed on this page for historical reference. Around them sits the wider roll of closures, most dated December 2013: Apparel Retailer, Apparel Manufacturer, Fashion-Industry and Fashion Industry Careers all closed that month, as did Only Clothing, Clothing Store News and directories for plus size and petite fashion, shirt printing and celebrity fashion photos.

The fabric fleet went the same month - corduroy, flannel, jacquard, jersey, madras, knit, nonwoven, poplin, printed, reflective, terry, twill, velour, woven and yarn-dyed fabric sites, and ringspun cotton - along with the price sites for cotton, wool, nylon, polyester, silk and yarn, the hat sites, the printed T-shirt sites and the handbag factory and digital fabric printer directories. A few entries carry different fates: Designer Search closed in November 2014, Apparel Search Media closed in 2019, the Jewelry Network was sold in September 2013, Clothing Industry Jobs was sold, Trend Forecasting merged into ColorTrends.org in December 2013, and Apparel Wholesaler closed in December 2013, re-opened, and closed again in December 2018.

Apparel Search, the Foundation

Beneath the whole list stands the constant: Apparel Search is the company's first and largest website to date, the foundation of the company, and the one site that absorbed the others' subjects when they closed. The directories' topics did not vanish in 2013; they came home to the main guide's sections, where most of them remain today.

Thank you for taking the time to view the Apparel Search Company's apparel industry websites. The four pages of this series - the catalog on page 1, the infrastructure on page 2, the blogs on page 3 and this archive page - are the complete map of the family, and the series block below links them all.