Fashion Library 

Fashion Resources: Useful Tools & Charts

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Links to gauge counts, yarn weights, mitten, sock and blanket size charts and preemie, children, men, misses and women’s measurements.

Links to size charts for Misses, Junior, Plus, Petite and Tall size charts.

Go to the Conversion Charts link to connect to a number of tools including fabric conversion charts, button size charts, clothing conversion charts, retail math equations and currency calculators.

Conversion charts American, British and European sizes for women’s and men’s clothing and shoes.

This website provides tools for color matching, creating color harmonies, searching a tint, color calculating (converting color data to different color spaces) and color calibrating your monitor.

Users select the desired term in a chosen language from the pull down menu and choose the “translates” button to translate the term into four languages.

This Textile Industry Affairs sponsored website gives consumers, educators and apparel industry professionals information about textile care labels.

This PDF provides one-page, easily printable croquis for an average woman, a petite woman, a plus-sized woman, a man, a 6-9 year old child and a toddler.