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FCS223: Evaluation of Apparel and Textiles

This course analyzes the textile and apparel production process. We start with a brief history of the US textile industry and it's dramatic change during the Industrial Revolution and then proceed through the entire apparel production process. We review line planning and trend analysis, design and development, sell-in, production and distribution.

Please go to the introduction to get started.

FINAL PROJECT OUTLINE AND TEMPLATE IS AVAILABLE UNDER RESOURCES: DUE DEC 4.

texts

required
The Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, and Marketing
Third Edition
Leslie Davis Burns and Nancy O. Bryant

RECOMMENDED
Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles
7th Edition
Phyllis G. Tortora and Robert S. Merkel

Online Textile Guide
Celanese Acetate Textile Glossary

virtual office hours for spring 2009:
Mondays 7pm-8pm via Skype or Second Life
or any other time the status button shows that I am online
Skype name: lori_wahl
Second Life name: Diantha Petrov
Click the button below to Skype me.

about The instructor

Lori Wahl is the instructor for this course. She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Idaho.

Email Lori
Contact Information

links du jour

Los Angeles International Textile Show

This is the major textile show for the West Coast. Sept 30-Oct 2

MAGIC

The MAGIC Market Shows are some of the largest shows for buyers featuring men's, women's, and children's products. Aug 31-Sept 2

next course offering

January 13, 2009

This course may be taken as part of the FCSEd Teacher Certification requirement.

Syllabus- Fall 2009