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Fashion & Retail Management Research at NEiA

 

1. Getting Started
2. Explore the Stacks for Books
3. Search for Books & DVDs in our Library
4. Magazines: What's New in the Industry?
5. Tools

 

Getting Started

Reference materials help you:

• - Choose a topic
• - Get a quick overview
• - See how a topic is related to other topics

Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry - Ref TT494 .S84 2008 - includes timeline and history of the fashion industry, plus overview of advertising, marketing, and branding today, and descriptions of jobs within retail store management

Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages - Ref GT 511 .P46 2004 - This five-volume set covers the history of fashion from the ancient world to the modern world

Who's Buying Apparel - Ref HF5415.32.W56 2009 - U.S. household spending data for different categories of people and products. Also see Household Spending: Who Spends How Much on What, Ref HC 79 .C6 H68 2009 (Chapter 2 is "Spending on Apparel") and Who's Buying by Age, Ref HF5415.33.U6 W45 2008 (U.S. household spending data by age, with a chapter on "Spending on Apparel").

Plunkett's Apparel & Textiles Industry Almanac - Ref HD9940.U3 P58 - Statistics and trends in retailing, supply chain & logistics, and more. Tip: search for "Plunkett's" in the catalog to see other books in this series that focus on retail, e-commerce & internet business, and the advertising & branding industry.

 

Explore the Stacks for Books

Books are organized by subject using a system of call numbers. A fun way to see what's in the library can be to go straight to the shelves! Look in three places:

• Reference stacks
• Main collection
• Oversize section

• • HF5428 through HF5437 Retail trade
    HF5439.C6 Selling (Clothing)
    HF5410 through HF5415 Marketing, Consumer behavior, Customer services, Customer relations
    HF5415.165 Merchandising, Fashion merchandising
    HF5845 through HF5849 Display of merchandise
    HD9940 through HD9969 Clothing trade (economics)
    TT490 through TT695 Clothing trade (manufacture & forecasting), Fashion forecasting, Fashion designers, Fashion design
    GT500 through GT2370 Fashion (manners & customs, history of fashion)
    

Search for Books & DVDs in our Library

• Know what you want?
• Ready to get specific?
• Already have a topic in mind?

Search our catalog

Use one or two of these keywords to find books & DVDs relevant to your topic:
fashion, fashion history, fashion industry, retail, marketing, consumer, customer, clothing, forecasting

 

Magazines: What's New in the Industry?

Stay current: grab a magazine off the shelf! For example:

• Adweek
• Vogue Paris

 

Tools

Here are some eResources that are great for Fashion & Retail Management:

First Research (access through the eResources page)
Includes profiles of different industries, including "retail sector" and "clothing stores," updated constantly with monthly statistics and indicators as well as quarterly trend updates, plus state profiles to monitor monthly employment, business and real estate trends in each of the 50 US states.

Hoover's (access through the eResources page)
Information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them. Includes profiles of the "apparel and accessories retail" and "department stores" industries.

Market Research (access through the eResources page)

Material ConneXion (access through the eResources page)
Information on over 1,400 different materials. Search by product name, process, application or keyword. Data and specifications for each material are included.

Women's Wear Daily (access through the eResources page)
Electronic version of the print publication.

Stylesight - (access through the eResources page) - trend content, tools, and technology