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AAFA: American
Apparel & Footwear Association
http://www.apparelandfootwear.org/
Includes
industry news and statistics; membership (apparel, footwear, &
international) and supplier resource directories; RFID guide; trade show & AAFA
calendars; publications list; legislative/trade news;
and links. For similar information for Canada, try the
Canadian Apparel Federation
http://www.apparel.ca/
The Cutting Edge
Apparel Business Guide
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3819/1/cutting_edge.html
Online business resource by Dr. Suzanne Loker, Dept. of Textiles
and Apparel, Cornell University. "Provides industry-specific
information to the entrepreneur who is developing, producing, or
selling an apparel or sewn product or a service."
The Fashion Center
New York City
http://www.fashioncenter.com/
Includes both
annual economic profile, with statistics, and annual report of the Fashion Center BID, FAQs,
fashion district map and
information &
industry links.
Fashion-Incubator
http://fashion-incubator.com
Kathleen Fasanella, author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Sewn
Product Manufacturing, provides "lessons from the sustainable
factory floor" on topics such as production, operations, inventory,
patterns, sewing, marketing, merchandising, sourcing, and more on
this blog. Includes glossary; line, process, and product
reviews.
Garment Industry
Development Corporation
http://www.gidc.org/
Includes New York City
apparel industry information with statistics and links.
For
more information on the NYC apparel industry, see the Fiscal Policy
Institute's 2003 report, NYC's Garment Industry: A New Look?
http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/NYC%20sGarmentIndustry.pdf
Garmento.org
http://www.garmento.org
Premier apparel manufacturing resource created by an FIT Production
Management Dept. faculty member. Includes many links to
resources and more, as well as useful tools, information, images
of equipment, forms, etc.
The Hosiery
Association
http://www.hosieryassociation.com/
Includes
glossary, sock & hosiery guides and charts, news & events calendar,
current & archived issues of the Hosiery Insider, member directory.
See also the Hosiery Technology Center’s
site,
Legsource, http://www.legsource.com/, and, for shoes, see
ShoeInfoNet,
http://www.shoeinfonet.com/
InfoMat
http://www.infomat.com/
"the fashion industry
search engine" Includes guides
organized by category; international business & product directories,
listing manufacturers,
contractors, wholesalers, retailers, associations, etc.; global
event calendar, career information, trend reports, and more. Also
available for fees, research reports & sales leads directories; some
available at FIT Library (check
StyleCat
 ).
NIST (National Institute of
Standards and Technology) Virtual
Museum
http://museum.nist.gov/exhibits/index.html
Online
exhibit, titled the "Standardization of Women's Clothing," includes
a history of sizing standards.
For more information,
especially on recent standards, use the
New York Public
Library web site below. For more on sizing, see
3D Body Scanner, SizeUSA, and Sizes.com
listed below.
Also, many standard-issuing
organizations, such as
ASTM International (American Society for
Testing and Materials)
http://www.astm.org/, provide standards of all
industries online for a fee. You can also use the site at no
charge as an index, looking up recent or historical standards and
then, using the standard name or number, find the standard itself in
an ASTM publication. Check your library catalog for these
publications. The FIT Library has the Annual Book of ASTM
Standards, Section 7, Textiles, which includes apparel,
textile, & home furnishings standards and contains standard body
measurement charts used for the sizing of apparel as well as many
other standards.
NSGA,
National Sporting Goods Association
http://www.nsga.org/
Includes
statistics & research, new product directory, association lists,
news releases. See also SGMA, Sporting Goods Manufacturers
Association
http://www.sgma.com/
for news, press releases (industry, SGMA, & new product),
public policy/issues information, product standards and rule
changes, and SGMA publications list. See
SGMA Industry Marketplace
http://www.sgmamarketplace.com for industry directory.
New
York Public Library Research Guide: Apparel, Fashion & Textiles:
Finding Related Industry and Technologies
Resources
http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/science/apparel
Guide to finding industry information and
resources (both in print & online), including associations,
directories, standards, regulations, and more. Also for
NYPL's Apparel, Fashion &
Textile links, select Websites or go to
http://www.nypl.org/links/index.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1753&d3=Apparel,
Fashion & Textiles
OTEXA, Office of
Textiles and Apparel, International Trade Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/
Includes statistics, trade agreements, import/export
information, and links to other sites.
For other suggested
government and international trade web sites, consult the FIT
Internet Guides
Government Sites:
US Focus and
International Trade.
techexchange.com
http://techexchange.com/
"Bringing technology to the sewn products industry" From Textile/Clothing
Technology Corporation
[TC]² and for the apparel,
textile, & home furnishings industries. Includes news, learning
center/library, events calendar, links, international apparel & textile
schools list, and software/hardware buyer’s directory.
Threading Your Way
Through the Labeling Requirements under the Textile and Wool
Acts
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/textile/bus21.shtm
Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) guide to federal labeling requirements for
textile, wool, and fur products. See also FTC’s
Textile,
Wool, Fur, Apparel and Leather Matters page at http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/textilejump.htm
for
related materials, including links to information on rules and
statutes, writing care labels, RN numbers, etc. For more on
labeling and on clothing care, try
Care Label Talk from Textile
Industry Affairs, http://www.textileaffairs.com/
3D Body
Scanner
http://www.bodyscan.human.cornell.edu/scene0037.html
Based on Cornell research regarding use of
3D body scanner and the issues of clothing design and fit.
Also includes glossary and links to other research on scanning, fit,
sizing, and more.
For more on sizing issues, see
SizeUSA from [TC]²,
http://www.sizeusa.com/ and for size charts, try
Sizes.com
http://www.sizes.com
The Triangle Factory
Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire
Comprehensive
coverage of 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, presented by The Kheel
Center at the Cornell University Library, in collaboration with
UNITE!
UNITE
HERE!
http://www.unitehere.org/
Formed by merger on July
8, 2004 of UNITE (formerly the Union of
Needletrades, Textiles and Industrial Employees, itself formed by
merger in 1995 of the ILGWU and the ACTWU) and HERE (Hotel
Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union).
Information on labor; Union activities, history, and issues.
For the history of sweatshops, see
Between a Rock
and a Hard Place, http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/index.htm, from the Smithsonian Institution. |
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While
some directories are very specific in their focus (e.g., Leathernet
and the RN Database), others are broader and include
listings of contractors, fabric and trim suppliers, technology and
equipment manufacturers, services, apparel manufacturers, etc. See
also sites containing directories listed in other sections of this
guide.
AAPN: American Apparel Producers’
Network Sourcing Directory
http://www.aapnetwork.net/Content/114.htm
Mostly
U.S., Latin America, and Canada; Contractors, suppliers, services,
& global industry resources.
Fashiondex.com
http://www.fashiondex.com/
International coverage. Fabric, trims, services, contractors,
and manufacturers. Lists (not searchable)
Leathernet: Leather
Industry Worldwide http://www.leathernet.com/
RN Database, Federal Trade
Commission http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/rn
With link to the Canadian CA Number database.
SEAMS...The National Association for the Sewn Products Industry
http://www.seams.org/search07/index.html
U.S. suppliers, services, and manufacturers.
ThomasNet
http://www.thomasnet.com/
From the publisher
of Thomas Register. American and Canadian coverage.
Manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, services, products.
Thomas
Global Register
http://www.thomasglobal.com/
International coverage/European coverage.
Manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, services, products.
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