Talk:Garment District (clothing retailer)

Original content
Why was the original content for Garment District deleted and then forwarded to Garment District, Manhattan? This was also done without any type of notes or talk. The original content was not done by me and appears lost forever. Sad.


 * Agreed. I've tried to address this, but I fear my additions will soon be deleted. The fact is, there are garment districts in almost every major city. People need clothing, and it doesn't come from nowhere! The trouble is that people always think of the NYC garment district when they hear the term. It doesn't help that the article on the Cambridge, MA based store is stubby and ad-like, or that the garment districts of just about every other city are ignored (see my other comments). Fuzzform (talk) 22:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

NYC
the garment district is in NYC. No ifs, ands, or buts. this is advertising and crap.Kitten b (talk) 01:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC) kitten b


 * Uhh... there are garment districts in just about every major US city (Boston has one in the Chinatown district, San Francisco has one... etc.). Just because the only one you've heard of is the famous one of NYC, doesn't mean that all other pages should be deleted. Indeed, this is a store, and not a district... but it's very well known in Boston, and certainly deserves a page. If you think it reads like an ad, then edit it. Needless to say... don't delete it; keep it. Fuzzform (talk) 22:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I removed these earlier comments & replaced with a fuller version below:

Garment District
Last year there was another user created entry on Garment District that was blown away at some unknown time. At that time there was no reference I could find in Wikipedia to garment district, manhattan or the equivilent. When I came back to look at that page approx. two months ago all references to Garment District (store) had been removed and replace with garment district, manhattan. In addition all similar words in search sent you to garment district, manhattan and ignored any other usage of the word. Because its a popular place in Boston I tried to put up a page to represent The Garment District. The page I created tried to recreate the page I remember seeing to the best of my ability. I did web searches & used content & cross links that I could find. I used as many references as I could. Perhaps I could have done better. I'm happy to re-edit it to make it better. Or if I didn't do a good enough job please edit it to meet the standards that someone feels I'm lacking. I thought I did my best to help out the wikipedia community. Perhaps the reference "garment district" may seem to refer to manhattan to someone based in some parts of the USA - but in other parts of the USA or the world the words garment district mean different things. As is clear by the multiple Garment District pages on Wikipedia - pages that refer to the Garment District in Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Lima. I feel it is only fair & reasonable that both references to the store in Massachusetts and the region in NYC and elsewhere both be represented on Wikipedia. Removing the page and making any search of garment district head to garment district, manhattan does not serve the public good. It would seem to me that the present situation where there is a listing page in-between showing all of the references to garment district is a good solution. Hopefully those continuing to introduce a forwarding page to only garment district, manhattan will refrain from doing so in the future.

I ask that the Garment District (store) page is not removed. Thanks.


 * Something is amiss here... there is no explanation of the general use of the term "Garment district". This confuses people, especially those who only know of one garment district (usually the one in NYC). Aside from the store in Cambridge, MA, there is a garment district (albeit a small one) in the southern portion (Chinatown) of downtown Boston (admittedly, this is a little known fact...). I'm going to attempt to describe what a "garment district" is, in the most general sense (although it's fairly obvious, given the name...). Fuzzform (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge
This page is redundant with The Garment District; obviously the two articles should be combined under one title or the other. Some paragraphs are exact duplicates between the two versions of the article; but on the whole, this one has more detail and references, but the other one is neater and written in a more encyclopedic style. AJD (talk) 04:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Sources, moved from article text
Historical documentation of The Garment District buildings done by the Cambridge Historical Society (PDF)

Online articles on The Garment District

NYTimes travel guide

Harvard Student Agencies

Harvard Crimson - Historic Garment District Saved

Cambridge Chronicle - Boston Costume Moves In

Daily Free Press - Go To The Garment District For Halloween

Boston Globe - Garment District has a clothes call

BC Heights

Boston.com Visitors Guide

Boston Business Journal

Harvard Crimson