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Department stores have a bigger women's section from clothing and other items. They keep more women's items in stock because they have to have a larger selectio
by orionblastar 11y ago
Department stores have a bigger women's section from clothing and other items. They keep more women's items in stock because they have to have a larger selection for women because women's fashion values are different from that of men. Keeping a bigger section for women or females means they have to mark it up more. They mark it up more because they don't sell all of it and have to eat the cost of the items that don't sell and are out of season.
My wife just uses my razor blades to shave her legs, she knows the women's version costs more. (I don't shave my legs, I shave my face and my wife uses my extra razors to shave her legs).
But I agree the women's version should cost the same as the men's version.
Usually the men's version is made first, and then they have to hire a designer to make the women's version. The cost of that designer is figured into the cost of the women's version. But sometimes it is just greed as well.
Edit: Added note about razors due to confusion.
- TheSpiceIsLife 11y agoJust out of interest, what kind of razors do you use to shave your legs?
- orionblastar 11y agoI don't shave my legs. My wife does. I shave my face and my wife takes my extra razors to shave her legs.
- DrScump 11y agoI don't shave my legs. My wife does. A good manager delegates?
- orionblastar 11y agoAh no neither myself nor my wife shaves my legs. I don't have my legs shaved.
- Grishnakh 11y agoI think there's a bit more to it than that. Women's clothes probably represent more risk. Women buy a lot more clothes anyway and care more about fashion, which changes a lot. Men's clothes, on the other hand, barely change at all and are usually extremely boring. Men's formal clothes haven't changed substantially in well over a century, and men's casual clothes basically amount to "jeans and a t-shirt". Because of this, women's clothes have higher risk: they may or may not sell before they're "old" and "out of style". So they have a higher price tag to get enough profit on the things that do sell. Then all the stuff that doesn't sell gets its priced slashed in a "closeout" sale to 50-90% off, or it gets shipped off to another store (like Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx, Ross, etc.) where it's sold for a fraction of its original price. You just don't see too much of that with men's clothing. (If you go to one of the above stores and look at the men's section, you'll mostly just find a bunch of crappy t-shirts.)