Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
Fashion is fabulous, and nobody wants to spend all day typing out long website page addresses. The solution is tiny URLs — shortened versions of long page addresses. This second page of examples shortens links for celebrity fashion, women's blouses and ladies bikinis, and the series continues on pages 3 through 8 with more shortened fashion addresses.
Fashion is fabulous and we all want to spend all day thinking about clothing, shoes, fashion designers, etc. However, we don't want to spend all day typing out long website page addresses. The solution is using tiny url's.
http://bit.ly/celebrity_fashion
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Shortened links solved a practical problem of the early social web: a full fashion page address could consume most of a short message before the writer said anything about the clothing. A tiny URL compressed the address to a handful of characters, leaving the rest of the message for the fashion itself. The examples collected across this series show the range of pages the industry wanted to share — celebrity fashion, blouses, swimwear, shoes and schools — and how one shortening pattern served them all.
The trade-off is still worth knowing: a shortened address hides its destination, so readers cannot judge where a link leads from the link text alone. Publishers who shorten links owe their readers recognizable, consistent short addresses rather than anonymous ones.
Page 2 gives shortened addresses for celebrity fashion, women's blouses and ladies bikinis — examples of long fashion page addresses turned into short, typeable links.
A shortened address is easier to type, share and fit into messages with character limits than the long page address it points to.
Pages 3 through 8 continue the examples, and each page of the series links to the others.