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What’s Missing From Online Shopping
From TheRobinReport.com --- Click to Enlarge Last year, US e-retail sales hit $263 billion, according to Forrester Research Inc., representing 8% of total retail sales. The company predicts that by...
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The Elevation of Denim
From TheRobinReport.com --- It is the Go-To for Going Out Denim has seen its share of evolution in the 140-plus years since Levi Strauss started selling blue jean overalls. In its modern iteration, it...
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The Importance of Authenticity
From TheRobinReport.com --- We’ve entered an age when words like “hand-crafted,” “artisanal” and “passionate” are turning consumer heads the way “low price” once did. In response, ubiquitous beer...
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The Love of a Favorite
From TheRobinReport.com --- A comfortable pair of jeans that makes you feel confident. A shirt filled with sentiment and inspiration. A trench that travels everywhere you do. What makes any piece of...
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Appealing to Shoppers with Sexy, Comfy & Healthy Cotton Undies
From TheRobinReport.com --- The average person doesn’t really think about buying underwear because once the clothes go on, it’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind situation. But some manufacturers are...
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Learning from the Hiccups of Holiday 2015
From TheRobinReport.com --- The 2015 holiday season was all over the map, but at the end of the day, they spent well, to the tune of a 7.9 percent gain over last year, according to MasterCard...
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The Technical Side of Fashion and Performance
From TheRobinReport.com --- Technology has come to fashion in a major way—whether in wearables, high-tech fabrics or the “Internet of Things” pieces that “talk” to the wearer. Changes in fashion...
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Preference for Polyester May Make Fast Fashion Brands Vulnerable
From TheRobinReport.com --- Since 2000, fast fashion—the speedy delivery of inexpensively produced hyper-fashion trends—has been a boon to retailers that subscribe to the model, as well as to sellers...
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Everything You’ve Heard About Cotton is Wrong
From TheRobinReport.com --- On May 23, 2017 Cotton Incorporated and Sourcing Journal Online co-hosted a media and apparel industry event provocatively titled, “Everything You Know About Cotton Is...
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Cotton Incorporated
From TheRobinReport.com --- Cotton Incorporated, funded by U.S. growers of upland cotton and importers of cotton and cotton textile products, is the research and marketing company representing upland...
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High(Tech) Cotton
From TheRobinReport.com --- From the Cotton Gin to Field Robots and Mobile Fashion Shows, Cotton Keeps Current Today, technology is advancing more rapidly than at any time in history. We see examples...
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Online vs Brick and Mortar
From TheRobinReport.com --- Keeping consumers happy is easy: just give them what they want, when they want it. Yet discovering the what and the when is not always so easy. For apparel purchases,...
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Digital and Physical Customer Service Vital for In-Store Sales
From TheRobinReport.com --- It’s no secret that retailers feel an ever-present threat from Amazon. No one feels it more than brick-and-mortar stores, who are bearing the costs of expensive real estate...
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The Importance (Or Not) Of Fashion Influencers
From TheRobinReport.com --- As attendees fill the rows at New York Fashion Week, many of the seats will be filled with “influencers,” both real and self-identified. As brands try to weed out who sits...
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A Fitting Future
From TheRobinReport.com --- In spite of easy, 24/7 access to brands and retailers online, most consumers prefer making their apparel purchases in an actual store. Perhaps as an unexpected consequence...
View ArticleCotton Goes To Montauk
From TheRobinReport.com --- Montauk lies 118 miles east of midtown Manhattan, at the eastern tip of Long Island. Purchased in 1648 by British settlers from the Montaukett Indians, Montauk served as...
View ArticleConsumers Use New Criteria to Evaluate Apparel
From TheRobinReport.com --- Fast fashion is finally on its way out and the cost-per-wear value metric is making a comeback. Companies that were forced to reduce the quality of the materials to...
View ArticleConsumers Use New Criteria to Evaluate Apparel
Fast fashion is finally on its way out and the cost-per-wear value metric is making a comeback. Companies that were forced to reduce the quality of the materials to manufacture clothing just to stay...
View ArticleA Rich Past Steers Denim’s Future for Women
LaQuan Smith sent amazing creations down the runway during his Fall/Winter New York Fashion Week show. His collections are all about empowering women to feel good about themselves via what they’re...
View ArticlePreference for Polyester May Make Fast Fashion Brands Vulnerable
From TheRobinReport.com --- Since 2000, fast fashion—the speedy delivery of inexpensively produced hyper-fashion trends—has been a boon to retailers that subscribe to the model, as well as to sellers...
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