If you sell women's designer or couture clothing, deal with upscale resale, specialize in designer consignment or better-quality resale fashions for women, here are some tips from Too Good to be Threw, The Premiere Site for Professional Resalers. Make your resale, consignment, or thrift shop more profitable with these womenswear ideas and sources.
The Womenswear SpecialistInteresting. In my word-processing program, womenswear is flagged as a misspelling. Suggested change? "Women swear". To make sure your women don't swear, some ideas for your shop.
Style Info:Confused about haute couture, better, moderate, bridge designations in women's fashion? A quick explanation. Fashion-411 bills itself as Your Resource For The Fashion Industry, Fashion Trends, Destination & Designer Shopping Stylish living? Trends, fads and ideas on Fashion Net and cutting edge designers and their ideas on Atelier Designers Online Fashion
Magazines include:
Ask Auntie Kate: Q:
A very good consignor just brought in a turquoise lambskin
skirt. The care tags and size are on it. But the label is just a
thick green leaf sewn on the tag. Anyone know the designer?
--Stephanie A: All clothing
originally has a tag (not saying it hasn't been removed!) that
includes the RN (for American companies) or CA (Canadian) number
which identifies the manufacturer. These numbers are usually on
the small, simply printed black-and-white garment care
tag.
Want to capture the teen market?Fashion
File and Teen Vogue Suggestion from a Sharer: SOB for wholesale teen-oriented clothing Jeans, jeans, more jeans:Check out styles, brands, and prices at Saks or Nordstrom's and Macy's or Target. And if you still haven't had your fill of jeans, read on at Zafu. You can even find your perfect fit there. |
Suggestions from Sharers on Wholesale Shopping Areas: New
York: Terrific clickable map
of "The Fashion Center" Los
Angeles: Fashion
District The
Shows, various locations: Learn
what's in, before you buy: Plus Sizes are a sorely under-served market. I don't know why. Some sites to research the new-merchandise area: Alight
has less-expensive items, good for seeing "what's in."
Learn about your merchandise:Clothing! Even includes a history of underpants... Learn how to tie those scarves so they'll sell ABOUT: Style Great for gathering "chat topics" to use with customers Lands' End has loads of info Fabrics: What is Tencel, anyway? What size are those foreign shoes you just got in? What size hat would your husband wear in Japan? Check here for US, UK, European and Japanese sizes. How fur coats are created Make your shop worthy of word-of-mouth:Displaying
jewelry. Ideas for crafters, but lots of resources for
retailers too. And
here's the adhesive
earring card hangers you need, if you print your own
cards. Fun with fashion:Fashion Crime Bingo: Just the thing to play at the mall... Copyright 2009 Kate
Holmes, TGtbT.com. All rights reserved and enforced. |
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