Choose clothing and accessories with a clearer understanding of fit, materials, care, and value. Explore how fashion is designed, presented, and sold.
Practical fashion guides
Updated resources with direct sources, useful comparisons, and worksheets you can save for your own use.

Choosing Eyeglasses: Frame Fit, Lens Options, and a Clear Quote
Compare frame fit, lens designs, coatings, and complete quotes, with practical questions for the dispenser and a downloadable worksheet.

Choosing a Handbag: Size, Construction, Materials, and Care
Choose an everyday handbag by what it carries, how it feels, how it is built, and what care or repair it needs.

Children’s Clothing: Fit, Comfort, Safety, and Everyday Use
Plan a practical children’s wardrobe around movement, comfort, clothing labels, everyday care, and the child’s preferences.

Fashion Marketing: Plan a Small Collection Launch and Measure Results
Build a useful fashion launch brief, communicate product facts, and work through revenue, returns, and campaign costs in a verified example.

Designer Shoes: Assess Fit, Construction, and Value
Compare designer shoes by fit, materials, construction, care, repair options, and realistic cost-per-wear scenarios.

Fashionable Phone Cases: Fit, Protection, and Carrying Options
Compare fitted cases, sleeves, wallets, and crossbody carriers by exact-model fit, charging compatibility, attachments, and everyday use.

Tween Fashion: Build a Wardrobe Together Without the Pressure
Plan a tween wardrobe together around comfort, personal taste, school needs, a clear budget, and a better understanding of clothing advertising.

Cyber Fashion: Wearable Displays, Smart Glasses, and Daily Use
Distinguish camera and audio glasses, compact displays, wearable screens, and immersive headsets, then check fit, connections, AI features, and privacy.

Fashion Modeling: Agencies, Portfolios, Castings, and Scam Checks
Understand modeling work, prepare a representative application, verify agencies and castings, and ask clear questions about fees, image usage, and digital likeness.

French Fashion Accessories: Design, Materials, Origin, and Care
Read French accessory descriptions with confidence, distinguish brand identity from origin, and compare scarves, bags, and belts through materials, use, and care.
Fashion technology
10 Ways Technology is Changing Fashion explores digital design, smart textiles, traceability, resale, and the limits of emerging tools.
Fashion profiles
Earlier fashion reporting
These articles cover earlier collections, campaigns, products, and interviews. Dates matter: past prices, availability, partnerships, and career descriptions may no longer apply.
- Ashlyn Harris and Umbro: 2017 campaign
- Long Tall Sally and Karl Lagerfeld: 2017 collection
- Fashion Police retail promotion
- Hilary Duff and Barbie fashions
- Emma Roberts and Dooney & Bourke
- Von Dutch sunglasses
- Karibags belt bags
- The Olsens and Badgley Mischka
- The Sak handbag campaign
- Nicole Richie and Bongo
- Hilary Duff interview
- Life and Style Weekly launch
- Ann Taylor anniversary campaign
- Anne Hathaway interview
- Charlize Theron and InStyle
- Harrods and emerging fashion designers
- Hello Kitty clothing collection