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Purchasing Power
Raw cotton’s volatile price increases have made many in the industry jittery, too. Yet new research from Cotton Incorporated shows that consumers are actually willing to pay more than what…
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Quality Pursuits
When the economy was booming and credit was easy, consumers cared less about the long term – in their apparel choices as much as in their savings account. But in…
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Seasonless Style
Consumers are shopping more shrewdly than ever. They cross-check products and pricing before they head to stores, and arrive armed with smartphones as backup. They want products that wear well…
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New Laps of Luxury
If it is good to be rich, it is just as good to be a business that caters to the sector. The luxury apparel market is alive, well and growing…
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A New Mentality
Gillette’s new “Masters of Style” ad, featuring the fashionably attired Adrian Brody, Gael Garcia Bernal and Andre 3000, comes at a time when more U.S. men are taking their personal…
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Rising Standards
A few years ago when jobs and incomes took a hit, consumers became obsessed with getting the lowest price possible when shopping for clothes. But then “frugal fatigue” set in,…
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Fair Weather Trends
Warmer weather brings out bursting flowers, chirping birds and… consumers? The last one may be a little harder to gauge. Balmy weather in the first quarter of 2012 had people…
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Marketing to Men
As men have spiffed up their wardrobes in order to be taken more seriously in the workplace, retailers and manufacturers have responded by adopting creative methods to reach this re-discovered…
Supply Chain
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When Jobs Come Marching Home Again
One of the major factors in the country’s stubborn unemployment numbers is the loss of manufacturing jobs — 5.6 million in the last decade. All the off-shoring paired with the…
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In Celebration of Shopping
Fashion’s Night Out is back. And for those wondering if it is bigger and better than ever, in a word: Bieber. As in, Justin Bieber, who says in the event’s…