There's another factor here: interest. The women's department in clothing stores is almost always MUCH larger than the men's department. Women typically have

There's another factor here: interest. The women's department in clothing stores is almost always MUCH larger than the men's department. Women typically have a lot more clothes, and a shitload more shoes than men. They just spend a lot more on clothing than men do, on average. Let's compare that with another market: aftermarket automobile parts and accessories. How many women spend hundreds of dollars on a spoiler or carbon-fiber hood for their car, or thousands of dollars on new rims? Almost none? At best, you might find a small number of women getting fancy rims (usually just tomboyish women who are into trucks), but good luck finding any who buy exhaust headers, intakes, engine tunes, etc. Similarly, you also won't find many women purchasing automotive tools like socket wrench sets, air compressors and impact wrenches, etc.; there's a few but they're ones like my sister, who do it because they're extremely practical and want to save money (and usually stick to easy stuff like oil changes anyway), not because they enjoy spending time working on their vehicles. There's other markets like this, which largely cater to men and in which men spend lots of their disposable income. For men, these things are usually called "hobbies". For women, clothing and shoes are frequently their "hobby". For many men, clothing is mainly seen as a chore anyway; from what I've seen, it seems that it's mainly only gay men who actually care a lot about "male fashion" and put a lot of effort and money into fancy clothes.