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What RSS Means
The technology of RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that provide RSS feeds; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly. Site owners create the feed with publishing software, and readers follow it with an aggregator, which tracks updates across every subscribed site in one place. Unlike subscriptions to printed newspapers and magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free. The full definition is published at Wikipedia's RSS article.
Websites used the same machinery in the other direction: a small script could render another site's feed as a headline box, so a directory page like this one could show a publisher's newest fashion stories and refresh itself. That display technology — not RSS itself — is what mostly disappeared, and it is what the examples below record.
The Feed Examples
Each example page in this folder once displayed one source's live fashion headlines. All ten are now historical references: the dead widget code has been removed, and each page explains what used to appear there, what happened to the service or the source, and where a living equivalent exists. Read them as a short history of how fashion news moved around the web.
- FeedDirect Fashion News FeedMoreover's consumer feed portal. The service shut down and the domain is parked for sale.
- 999Today Fashion News FeedUK headlines through Moreover. The source site is gone entirely, answering HTTP 410.
- About.com Fashion RSS FeedThe guide-site fashion channel. About.com was retired in 2017 and its fashion category was dropped.
- Fashion Week Daily News FeedA digest whose source feed is gone; the publisher still publishes as The Daily Front Row.
- FocusOnStyle Fashion News FeedA digest frozen in February 2014; the site has pivoted to business coaching.
- FUK (Fashion UK) News FeedThe oldest frozen display in this folder: a digest snapshot from spring 2010.
- New York Times Fashion FeedBuilt with Moreover's tools. The intermediary died; the Times still publishes RSS today.
- PRWeb Fashion News FeedPRWeb's own JavaScript widget, now a 404. PRWeb itself is alive under Cision.
- Telegraph Fashion News FeedA digest frozen in September 2015; the Telegraph retired its fashion RSS.
- Yahoo Fashion RSS FeedA digest of Yahoo's news-search RSS, frozen in April 2015.
Feeds That Still Work
Two sources from the directory era are genuinely alive. The New York Times RSS page lists the feeds the Times publishes today — its old services address redirects to this live index, and the paper's fashion coverage can be followed there. Fibre2Fashion's RSS / XML Feeds page is a current feed directory from the B2B fashion and textile news portal, listing its present-day feeds — including its Top Fashion News feed, delivered through FeedBurner. Everything else that was once linked from this page as a live feed is history, covered in the next section.
Sources That Are History Now
InStyle once offered an RSS fashion news feed from its feeds page; that page is gone (it returns an error today), although InStyle itself still publishes as a People Inc. brand. Yahoo offered fashion news through its feed directory and its news-search RSS; the directory address returns 404 and the search feeds were discontinued in the mid-2010s. The Washington Post fashion feed was linked through a 2005-era linkset address that no longer resolves. MSN Shopping offered an RSS shopping feed with a clothing and shoes option; the address now lands on a generic MSN shopping page and the feed it described is long gone. These four are kept here as history and are not linked, because there is no live feed left to link to.
More Fashion News Resources
- Fashion NewsThe main Apparel Search fashion news page.
- Fashion News HubThe Apparel Search fashion news hub page.
- Fashion Industry NewsFashion industry news on Apparel Search.
- Daily Fashion NewsDaily fashion news on Apparel Search.
- Celebrity Fashion NewsCelebrity fashion news on Apparel Search.
- Organic Fashion NewsOrganic fashion and clothing news on Apparel Search.
- Fashion ArticlesThe fashion article archive on Apparel Search.
- Fashion Job FeedsClothing industry job feeds on Apparel Search.
- Fashion Feeds by Apparel SearchThe feeds published by Apparel Search itself.
- Fashion Blogger FeedThe fashion blogger feed on Apparel Search.
- Fashion WidgetsFashion widgets for websites, kept as a historical-era companion to this directory.
- Fashion GadgetsFashion gadgets for websites, from the same era as the feed directory.
- Fashion NewspaperThe Fashion Newspaper section, a historical companion to the news feeds.
- Fashion News Search EnginesThe Apparel Search guide to fashion news search engines.
- Fashion BlogThe Apparel Search fashion blog, with current fashion coverage.
Additional Fashion Resources
Common Questions
What is an RSS feed?
RSS is a family of XML formats for web syndication. A site publishes its newest articles as a structured feed — headline, a line or two of summary, and a link — and readers or other websites subscribe to it, so updates arrive in one place instead of requiring a visit to every site. The versions the name has covered are Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) and Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0).
Do any fashion news feeds still work?
Yes. The New York Times still publishes RSS, with a live feed index at nytimes.com/rss, and Fibre2Fashion maintains an RSS directory page listing its current feeds, including a Top Fashion News feed. Those living sources are linked on this page; the ten Apparel Search feed examples are historical, because the widgets and endpoints behind them have closed or frozen.
Why did the feed examples on Apparel Search stop working?
Three things ended them. The aggregators closed: Moreover shut its free consumer feeds in 2012 and the digest service now called Feed Informer stopped refreshing its legacy digests, leaving frozen 2010–2015 snapshots. Publishers dropped RSS: Yahoo, the Telegraph, About.com and PRWeb all discontinued the endpoints these pages used. And some sources vanished or changed direction entirely, among them 999Today and FeedDirect.