Ch. 4 Vocab

1. The process of creating new versions of garments, accessories, or other items.
5. Products that are always changing.
6. Textiles combined with other materials.
7. Change in popularity or demand with the seasons of the year.
9. Nonprofit, voluntary organizations made up of businesses that have common interests.
10. Technical rather than fashionable.
12. Separates the overall fashion industry into four main groups of business.
14. The combining of two or more steps of the pipeline within one company and under one management.
16. Inexpensive accessories and small, non-fashion products go through wholesalers which are referred to as resellers.
17. Requires many workers to make the products
19. The fabrics in an unfinished state.

2. Relate to the earth's surface.
3. Magazines, newspapers, and books that deal specifically with a certain industry or segment of an industry.
4. "Staple goods"
6. The route that products take from the original source, through all middle-aged people to the end user.
8. Produced only for that retailer and have the retailer's special trademark or brand name.
11. The channel of distribution for apparel and home decorating textiles.
13. Very thin, hair-like strands that can be quite short or very long.
15. pipeline Another way of saying "soft goods chain".
18. Members exhange ideas, information, or services, forming an inter-connected or inter-related chain of communication.