The Footwear News Archive provides exclusive access to one of the longest-running still-published fashion trade titles and a leading authority in the footwear industry, a fashion sector of high interest for researchers. Chronicling nearly 80 years of industry information, from 1945 to the present day*, this archive includes breaking fashion news, expert analysis, and imagery chronicling market dynamics, design evolution, business strategies, and more.
This primary source material allows for researchers to identify and interpret the key events and trends in the industry, such as shifts in consumer preferences and behavior, innovations in materials and manufacturing technology, brand strategies, societal impacts of footwear trends, sustainability practices, and developments in retail and distribution.
* Our policy is to include each issue from the first and to scan from cover to cover. Due to the rarity of some of the original print volumes, however, there are some gaps (issues or pages).
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The Footwear News Archive provides a wealth of information for researchers interested in exploring topics such as fashion, design, history, marketing, supply chains, and more.
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Coverage spanning 1945 to present – nearly 80 years of content
Article-level metadata and searchable text
Easy retrieval of content such as advertisements, photographs, and illustrations
Cover-to-cover full-color digitization to maximize the visual content
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