Fashiondex Book Store

Fashiondex Book Store for Fashion Books, Apparel Books and Textile Books

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Directories >> Design Tools >> Apparel Business >> Technical >> How To's >> Dictionaries >> Sourcing >> Shopping >> Grading >> Pattern Making

Don't forget to visit the fashion libraries.

If you are new to the fashion industry or an experienced garmento, reading books about fashion and textiles is one of the best things you can do to stay ahead of the competition.  If you are serious about fashion, it is very important to stay educated regarding fibers to fashion.  Read a book about fabrics, manufacturing, pattern making etc.

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How the Fashiondex Store Is Organised

The store's categories follow the jobs of the industry rather than the alphabet. Directories answer who supplies what. Design tools answer the factual questions of the design room — measurements, colour names, construction details. Business books cover running a fashion company and sourcing strategically. Technical reference covers production knowledge such as quality assurance and production terms. How-to books teach the phases of design and production step by step. Dictionaries fix the vocabulary. Sourcing books cover finding and working with suppliers worldwide. Shopping books are city shopping guides. Grading books turn one pattern into a size range, and pattern making books create the pattern itself. A reader who learns this map once can find the right shelf for almost any working question the industry asks, which is why every Fashiondex page on this site links the full category list.

Pages 1, 2 and 3 of the Store

The store's offering on Apparel Search is spread over three pages, and they are best used as one catalogue. This first page is the hub: it carries the category map and the store's own introduction. Pages 2 and 3, linked below and from every category page, continue the store presentation under the heading of fashion industry books, repeating the category routes so a reader landing on any page can reach any shelf. When you follow a category link from any of the three pages you arrive at the same category sections — directories, design tools and the rest — each with its own named example titles.

Staying Educated, From Fibres to Fashion

The store's stated philosophy is that education is competitive advantage: reading about fashion and textiles is one of the best things a person in the industry can do to stay ahead of the competition, and serious professionals stay educated regarding fibres to fashion. That phrase describes the span of these shelves exactly — from textile dictionaries and fabric books at the fibre end, through pattern making, grading, sourcing and production in the middle, to business, marketing and shopping guides at the fashion end. The three store pages and ten category pages together form a complete working library organised along that span. Students can read it as a curriculum, and working professionals can treat it as the reference collection their own shelves should hold.

Where to Go Next

New readers usually start with the category matching their immediate job: pattern making for construction, dictionaries for vocabulary, directories for suppliers. Readers building a library from nothing can work through the categories in the store's own order, which roughly follows a garment's life — directories and design tools first, then business, technical, how-to and dictionary support, then sourcing, shopping, grading and pattern making. The fashion library in this site's terminology section, linked from this page, is the quick online companion to the printed shelves.