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Well I think its more that consumers shift behaviour. For some people clothes shopping is best experienced in person. For others its nicer to do online. I lik
by msh 5y ago
Well I think its more that consumers shift behaviour.
For some people clothes shopping is best experienced in person. For others its nicer to do online.
I like almost everybody else used to go shopping for clothes but now I mostly shop online. I get vastly expanded selections and with easy returns it is for me more convenient.
I do know percentages but just to pull a number out of thin air if just 20% of shoppers moved a majority of their clothing purchases online a lot of retail shops could not afford that drop in sales.
Some malls can change into your example 1, but others in other locations won't have the overhead to do it.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoThis. I already know my size, why should I have to dig through clothes I can't possibly wear?
- jjav 5y agoSizes don't seem to follow any standard. I have shoes from size 10 to 12, depends on the brand and model. Shirts I mostly wear Large, or Medium, but I have Smalls and a few XLs. They's all the same physical size to fit me, the label is just semi random. So as much as I hate shopping, for clothes I'll only ever shop in person.
- msh 5y agoWell they are often somewhat uniform for brands. I know if I repeat buy clothes I can get the same size.
- bobthepanda 5y agoMen's sizes have the fortune of being more standardized than women's. Fit is also more important for women, as women have more things they need to fit around (you can have a dress that is the correct shoulder width but doesn't fit the bust, pants that fit the waist but not the butt, etc.) and the fits are a tighter on many clothes. And even worse is that different brands are inflating sizes at different rates for different fits as well. This doesn't even get into other things, like material feeling (the label only tells you so much) or things that you can't easily tell online with women's clothing like nonfunctional pockets. Although men's clothing is also moving in this direction. US men's sizing used to be just straight up inches, but now they've started doing the size inflation thing, so a US size 33 jean is no longer 33 inches waist.