How do I hunt particular clothing items, but in different sizes?
Many of the tag numbers, if you are shopping at a large chain store like Nordstrom’s, are almost certainly unique to that chain’s order, so most of them are noise rather than signal. It may also be that a particular item (let’s say a Smith Sisters cotton jacket in lime green) was manufactured only for that chain; the Smith Sisters folks may have had their factories make the same jacket in navy blue for other stores, or the same jacket in lime green rayon for other stores, or what have you. So the item of clothing may not actually exist anywhere outside of the Nordstrom’s supply chain (which, again, is one of the unique selling propositions of chain department stores–that they use their purchasing heft to ensure that they have goods you can’t find elsewhere). The reason nobody’s giving you a good answer to your question is that there isn’t a good answer to your question. It’s really hard to trace any individual item of clothing back beyond retailers’ supply chains, even for people who
