Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
A tag is a keyword or category label: tags help people find information, photos and videos that have something in common, and many social, blog and other websites let users assign tags to the content they upload. A fashion tag applies that system to fashion — a keyword or category used by fashion websites to categorize topics relevant to fashion, clothing, apparel, style and fabrics. In this context, fashion tags are not the hangtags or price tickets attached to garments.
Fashion Tags or Fashion Tagging: Fashion Terms by Apparel Search
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What are Fashion Tags? Technically, the term has been invented by the Apparel Search Company. However, the use of the word "Tag" or "Tagging" is used all the time in regard to website. Apparel Search certainly did NOT create the concept of tagging. We have only coined the combination of adding the word "fashion" to the mix.
A "tag" is like a keyword or category label. Tags help you find information, photos, videos, etc. which have something in common. Many social websites, blog websites, and other types of websites, allow you to assign tags to information that you upload. In summary, the tags help categorize the content that you have uploaded. If you are building your own website, you may be familiar with the term "keywords" rather then the term "tags". They are very similar. In fact, I can not really explain to you the difference between tags and keywords because I do not know the difference...
A "Fashion Tag" is a keyword or category utilized by fashion websites to categorize topics relevant to fashion, clothing, apparel, style, fabrics, etc. Fashion Tags in this context should not be confused with fashion tags (hangtags or price tickets) that are utilized by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to hang on garments (certainly, we can not use a tagging tool to create keywords on websites).
Here are some examples of Fashion Tags that are used on the Fashion Industry Network. These tags are used for the fashion blog section of the network.
fashion
style
news
designers
accessories
trends
designer
fashion colors
apparel
clothing
stylist
sexy
fashion industry
shoes
handbags
swimwear
models
lingerie
trend
design
The Fashion Industry Network also utilizes tags in the
fashion photos
section, fashion
video section and
fashion forum
section to help members categories the comments that they have made
or images uploaded.
Learn how to
add Fashion Industry Network tags to your style
website.
The Fashion Blog here on Apparel Search also uses a tagging system.
You can learn more about the
Fashion Blog Tags. It is important to note
that FIN and our blog use entirely different labeling systems.
They each have different search strings and rules for creating tags
and searching with the tags.
The above mentioned sites are not the only site to use tags (or fashion tags). You can see the popular sites below also use tags.
Some companies create what is called a Tag Cloud. Here is an example of what a tag cloud looks like: (Sorry, if it does not appear... I think that Amazon may have discontinued this feature).
Websites such as Flickr� allow users to add tags to photos. You can view flickr� tags if you are interested.
According to YouTube� as of April 6, 2010, "Tags are keywords that describe videos. For example, a surfing video might be tagged with "surfing," "water," and "waves." Users who enjoy watching surfing videos can then search for any of those terms and the video associated with these tags will show up in their search results. Tags help you label videos you upload so that other people can find them more easily." (follow Apparel Search on Youtube)
The social bookmarking website called delicious also allows the use of tags. You can view popular delicious tags at their site (follow Apparel Search on Delicious).
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Tagging works because fashion vocabulary is shared: a photograph tagged with a garment type, a fabric and a style can be retrieved by any of those routes. Blogs, social sites and media libraries rely on tags to organize far more content than a fixed category tree could hold, and consistent tagging is what makes a large fashion archive searchable — the same organizational problem the fashion database entry in this directory addresses from the systems side.
A keyword or category label used on fashion websites to categorize fashion topics, so that content about clothing, apparel, style or fabrics with something in common can be found together.
They are very similar: both label content by subject. Tags are typically assigned freely by the people uploading or organizing content, while keywords are often chosen as the formal search terms for a page.
The physical hangtags and price tickets that manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers attach to garments — a different thing entirely from website tagging.