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This is the letter-X index of the Fashion Products guide. Its X product guides are linked directly below, in the chip list at the top of this page: X-Files Clothing and Xbox Clothing.
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X is the merchandise letter. Every other letter of this guide is anchored by garment types, tops, coats, socks, dresses, but almost no garment name begins with X, so the letter belongs to two entertainment properties instead: a television series and a video game brand. That makes X the clearest small example of a large fashion force, licensed and fan clothing, the garments people wear to carry a story or a game with them. The chip list above links both guides.
The X-Files guide covers the clothing of the science fiction horror drama series created by Chris Carter, in which FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. The series ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002 across nine seasons and 202 episodes, continued in feature films in 1998 and 2008, and returned for a tenth season in 2016. Its fashion footprint is the fan garment: the guide ends where the merchandise begins, with the X-Files t-shirts through which the show's audience wears its allegiance.
The Xbox guide covers the clothing of Microsoft's video gaming brand, introduced in the United States on November 15, 2001 with the first Xbox console, followed by the Xbox 360 in 2005 and the Xbox One in 2013. A gaming brand's clothing works like a team's colors: logo apparel identifies the wearer as part of the player community, and achievement-themed garments turn in-game accomplishments into wearable jokes and badges. The guide explains the console generations and the Xbox Live service behind the brand, so the clothing has its context.
Read together, the two X guides show merchandise fashion from both sides: a story people watched and a system people played. In both cases the clothing is secondary to the property and primary to the fan, which is why these short guides sit comfortably in a products guide. Shoppers looking for garment types rather than brands will find them in the neighboring letters through the Fashion Products index; X itself stays a two-guide letter, complete as it stands.
X-Files Clothing and Xbox Clothing, each linked in the chip list at the top of this page. X is one of the shortest letters in this guide, and both of its entries are entertainment merchandise clothing.
Merchandise apparel: clothing tied to a television series, in the X-Files guide, and clothing tied to a video game brand, in the Xbox guide. Both guides explain the entertainment property first, then the clothing it supports, such as X-Files t-shirts.
Few clothing, footwear or accessory category names begin with X, so the letter is filled by the two entertainment properties whose names start with the letter rather than by garment types.