There are catalogs for overweight children, physically challenged people, tall women and short men. Chances are, if you’re out there, there’s a catalog with clothing for you. But Ebony Publications ...

It has been 62 years since Appleseed’s was founded in Beverly, and about 12 years since the women’s clothing retailer closed 17 retail stores – including a successful one in Cohasset – and became ...

Spiegel, Inc., and Ebony magazine, responding to a growing black consumer market, said Tuesday that they plan to launch a new clothing catalog for contemporary black women. The nation’s largest ...

In the 1880s, it was bustles and corsets. In the 1950s, it was girdles and cone-shaped brassieres. These days, it’s Spanx and liposuction. The White River Valley Museum’s “Suffer for Beauty” ...

The private-equity owner of the women’s clothing catalogs Spiegel and Newport News is close to buying Massachusetts-based mail-order company Appleseed’s, according to sources familiar with the deal.

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

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