Ancestry.com now has the complete collection of Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs from 1896 to 1993, spring and fall seasons, available for viewing on its website. Comprising more than 250,000 pages ...

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 ...

Nothing slices and dices information like the Internet. Take, for example, the Web site FlipSeek.com, which is a directory of online catalogs. The site unites information already available to ...

Q: Several years ago I shopped at Koret outlet stores in Smithfield and Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head in South Carolina, among other outlet stores. Then all of those outlet stores closed, and I was ...

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 ...

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.

On May 18, 1995, Seinfeld introduced a larger-than-life character into the pop culture consciousness. In “The Understudy,” Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a chance encounter with J. (Jacopo) Peterman ...

1. Wishbook Web, the “vintage Christmas catalog archive project,” with online versions of old Christmas catalogs (Sears, Wards, J.C. Penny, FAO Schwarz, etc.) from 1933 to through 1988. 2. Online ...

Abercrombie & Fitch’s winter catalog is about the clothiers’ “youthful, spirited, yet responsible” lifestyle, says spokesman Hampton Carney. You know, “playing touch football, riding on horses.” ...