Garments & Textiles Magazine: Garment and Textile Products and Suppliers, Monthly

Garments, Textiles and Trimmings in One Monthly Title

Each issue of Garments & Textiles included advertisements and editorial sections on three groupings: Garments, Textiles and Trimmings. Putting the three together is a sourcing decision, not just an editorial one. A garment buyer needs the textile mills behind a style and the trimmings — zippers, buttons, lace, labels — that finish it, and a magazine that indexes all three lets one reader follow a product from fabric to finished garment inside a single issue. Detailed product and supplier advertisements comprised over 70 percent of the content, each describing the advertiser's main product lines and core supply capabilities, and the product and advertiser index gave suppliers' full contact details and website addresses.

Full-colour photographs with top-line specifications accompanied featured products, and each issue added in-depth sourcing reports from mainland China analysing supplier output capacities, quality control and pricing strategies, together with updates on supply trends and product developments across Asia, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India and Singapore, reported by Global Sources' network of specialized analysts.

Who Bought From This Magazine

The readers were the trade itself: garment manufacturers looking for fabric and trimmings suppliers, importers and retailers sourcing finished garments, and textile buyers comparing mills. For those readers the magazine's promise was practical — make smarter, more informed buying decisions — and its structure served that promise: advertisements with capability statements rather than slogans, an index that turned interest into contact details, and analyst reporting that put prices and capacities in market context. A textile buyer could check a mill's advertised line against the China sourcing analysis in the same issue; a garment importer could move from a finished-product advertisement to the trimmings suppliers behind similar products.

Subscription Terms and the End of Print

The annual subscription was US$170 for 12 issues delivered by air courier, or US$75 for a shorter introductory term. As of January 1, 2010, the magazines in this section are no longer available for printed publication; the Global Sources website carries information about the availability of electronic magazine editions, which continue the same product and supplier format digitally. The companion Fashion Accessories and Baby & Children's Products magazines have their own pages in this directory, and the Magazine Directory page maps the full range of Global Sources magazines and China Sourcing Reports for the apparel and textile industries.