This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers teach a course in fashion merchandising to high school students. The guide contains eight performance-based learning modules, each consisting of one to seven units. Each unit teaches a job-relevant task, and includes performance objectives, performance guides, resources, learning activities, evaluation standards, and achievement tests for the fashion merchandising field. The guide is designed to be used with any teaching method, such as lecture/demonstration or discussion. The following topics are covered in the guide: overview of the fashion industry; orientation to marketing and distributive education, Distributive Education Clubs of America, and cooperative education; career development; personal development; nature of fashion; sales promotion; product technology; and merchandising. Bibliographies are included in each module. Appendixes to the curriculum guide list duties and tasks required of students for each unit, supplies and equipment, and bibliographic resources for fashion merchandising. (KC)