Black Friday Fashion Blog Posts

Black Friday is important for the clothing industry and for consumers. In this section of the guide are listed some of the fashion blog posts relevant to the Black Friday holiday selling period — the day after Thanksgiving that opens the Christmas shopping season and moves more clothing in a weekend than almost any other date on the retail calendar. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the Black Friday posts from the fashion blog, and links the sales directory and the Black Friday term page at the top.

Black Friday Fashion Blog Posts

About Black Friday and Clothing

Two posts sit in this index. Black Friday 2013 Coming Soon: Macy's is the department store post, published in October 2013 ahead of the event, when Macy's doorbuster plans were the annual bellwether for how aggressive the season would be. cinda b Clear Tote Gift is the gift-with-purchase post from November 2014 — a clear tote offered as a gift item by the accessories brand whose handbags also appear in the accessories index on this site. Preview coverage and gift offers are the two shapes Black Friday blogging takes: shoppers plan early, and brands compete with extras as much as with discounts.

For clothing retailers, Black Friday is a stock event as much as a sales event: fall inventory must clear to make room for holiday and resort lines, so discounts deepen on coats, boots and party dresses first. The Black Friday term page linked above explains the day's name and place in the fashion calendar, and the sales directory collects the standing sale and outlet resources on Apparel Search. Readers planning sale shopping will also find the shopping directory, the clothing sales directory and outlet store pages in the topic block below.

The shopping itself has been moving online for years, and clothing is where the shift shows most: sizes and colors can be compared across stores in minutes, and the doorbuster coat in one size run can sell out online before the store opens. Experienced sale shoppers work from a list — sizes recorded, target prices noted from the season's earlier prices — because Black Friday discounts are deepest exactly where stock is deepest, which is not always where the need is. The two posts here, a department store preview and a gift-with-purchase offer, are the season in miniature: plan early, and expect the extras to compete with the markdowns.