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Fashion Forecasting
by Evelyn L. Brannon
from Fairchild Books & Visuals
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Not about Forecasting 
This book should be called Fashion Theory or Introduction to Fashion Cycles and Theory and NOT Fashion Forecasting. Forecasting was lost in translation throughout the book, and lacked focus. This book does not do justice to the scientific aspect of forecasting and is not well organized. There is almost no information on methods used by market researchers today. Author seems well versed in fashion theories, which students do not relate to in this class or day and age. Simmel (1904)is great, but maybe not for... more info
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From shameless to daring, smart to dowdy, hideous to amusing 
Ms. Brannon is a professor, and this is a textbook. A supurb textbook that unravels, analizes, graphs, charts, and narrates the dynamics of consumer choice in light, effortless prose. It is an epic study that brings aboard the great cast of characters who have devoted their lives to staying a jump ahead of us. (The bibliography is 16 pages long!) Whom do they watch? How does a forecaster know when an innovation has good "legs"? Is it in tune with the times, or a counter current? All this and more is told as... more info
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