"I have been a K. Jordan customer since the 1990s," a reader wrote in last month. "I cannot find a current catalog anywhere — did they close?" The short answer, as of June 2026, is that the print K. Jordan catalog is no longer in active circulation in the United States. The longer story is below.
A short history
K. Jordan made its name in value-priced women's fashion, mailed monthly with the same predictable cover treatment that made the better catalogs of the 1990s and 2000s feel like a piece of household furniture. The brand emphasized accessible price points, pay-over-time credit options, and a broad size range that included plus sizes and petites without making it feel like an afterthought. For a loyal segment of the catalog audience, K. Jordan was a default — the book that always sat on the coffee table, the one you flipped through during commercials.
The brand spent most of its later life inside the Bluestem Brands portfolio in Eden Prairie, Minnesota — the same parent company that ran Fingerhut, Newport News, Bedford Fair, Country Door, Ginny's, Seventh Avenue, Haband, Draper's & Damon's, Appleseed's, and several other long-running value catalogs. K. Jordan shared an ordering platform with Fingerhut and several of its sister brands; many longtime customers held a single credit account that worked across the Bluestem family.
What changed
K. Jordan was caught in the headwinds that thinned the rest of the mid-market value-fashion catalog industry — rising paper and postage costs, the migration of older shoppers from print to phone, and the credit-side risk of brands that relied on monthly-payment financing to drive higher average orders. The K. Jordan mailings became less frequent across the late 2010s.
Bluestem filed Chapter 11 in 2020 and reorganized, and the brand portfolio continued to operate for several years afterward. In late 2025, the company began its final wind-down — the Eden Prairie headquarters closed in mid-November 2025, and the affiliated brands that had been quietly mailing went quiet then. As of mid-2026, K. Jordan does not have a current print catalog in active circulation.
Where the K. Jordan shopper goes now
The good news for the K. Jordan customer — a woman who wants accessible-price-point fashion, a broad size range, and a catalog that lands in the mailbox on a predictable cadence — is that the genre is not gone. A handful of catalogs still serve that audience:
- Haband — the value-priced catalog most K. Jordan customers will recognize immediately. Pull-on pants, machine-washable knits, frequent percent-off promotions. Print catalog still ships free.
- Coldwater Creek — slightly more textured and seasonal than K. Jordan was; the easy-knits and layering side of the catalog will feel familiar.
- Appleseed's — for the more polished side of the K. Jordan book. Refined separates, blouses, coordinates that work for both career and weekend wear.
- Walter Drake — for K. Jordan customers who valued the wide-assortment side of Bluestem's mailers. Household helpers, kitchen aids, monogram goods, personalized seasonal pieces.
About the website and your account
If you held a Bluestem-family credit account that covered K. Jordan along with other sister brands (Fingerhut, Newport News, Country Door), the official guidance during the wind-down was that customers could and should continue making payments through the same login. The closure FAQ at fingerhut.com/content/faq-closure addresses what happens to credit reports, balances, and customer-service questions across the Bluestem brand family. We point readers there because the situation is subject to update by the wind-down team and they are the authoritative source.
If you came here looking for a specific past K. Jordan mailer — the holiday issue, the plus-size edition, the spring book — those particular catalogs are not back in circulation, and we have no way to send them to you. What we can do is make sure you receive the closest equivalent that is still publishing. Pick any of the four above and the print copy will be in your mailbox within roughly a week.
The K. Jordan rhythm — the predictable monthly book, the wide size range, the accessible price points, the pay-over-time option that made bigger orders feel manageable — is genuinely gone for that name. The catalogs above will not replace it perfectly, but they will at least keep the mailbox season going.