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  • American Apparel & Footwear Association
    http://www.americanapparel.org
    The American Apparel & Footwear Association was formed in August 2000 through the merger of three trade associations: the American Apparel and Manufacturers Association, Footwear Industries of America and The Fashion Association. The site has industry news, consumer information and statistics.
  • Apparel Search Company
    http://www.apparelsearch.com
    ApparelSearch.com is a business to business online database to the apparel/textile industry, including manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, freight companies, customs, warehousing, quality standards, education/training, trade shows, publications, model agencies, news, and employment.
  • Associations Directory for the Apparel and Fashion Industry
    http://www.apparelsearch.com/associations.htm
    A portal of industry links classified by associations, organizations, search engines, factories, production services, employment and news.
  • Basic Clothing Construction -- Sew Easy: Pattern And Fabric Selection
    http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1445.htm
    Contains body measurement charts, clothing sizes, and fabric considerations.
  • Expocentral.com
    http://www.expocentral.com
    Provides information on the textile industry, current trade shows, fairs, exhibitions conventions and conference in the U.S. and other countries.
  • FabricLink
    http://www.fabriclink.com
    An online educational resource for fabric care, flammability standards, textile dictionary, alerts on product recalls, fabric history, and product guide.
  • Fashion Center New York City
    http://www.fashioncenter.com/main.html
    A site with real estate information on NYC fashion district including events, fashon designers, economic profile, and news.
  • Fashion Windows
    http://www.fashionwindows.com
    This site includes fashion designer biographies, runway shows, a calendar of invents, fashion trends and reviews, and more.
  • Fit 2000: The Fit Symposium
    http://car.clemson.edu/fit2000/references.htm
    A bibliography of resources on voluntary standards for body measurements and sizing, garment fit, pattern development, sizing research and grading.
  • Infomat: the largest fashion industry search engine
    http://www.infomat.com/information/research/index.html
    This site includes links to mostly free international and U.S. apparel/textile/accessories industry reports, consumer reports, rankings based on sales/growth/brand, dictionaries, news, and statistical indicators. Notable is an overview, dated 2000, of New York City's fashion industry:http://www.gidc.org/industry.html
  • National Textile Center
    http://www.ntcresearch.org/
    A consortium of eight universities with the mission of enhancing the knowledgebase of U.S. fibers, the site has research reports from 1992 to the present.
  • Office of Textiles and Apparel
    http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/
    Trade data, agreements, reports, acts, quotas, and much more.
  • Textileweb.com
    http://www.textileweb.com
    This site provides industry and product information as well as suppliers.
  • WTO | Textiles on the WTO website
    http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/texti_e/texti_e.htm
    Contains WTO agreement on textiles and clothing, technical information on textiles, and related WTO information.

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