Women think of fashion shopping as a clothes hanger
sociable recreation activity. Men's shopping habits clothes hanger
, however, are still driven by the hunter instinct; they have a good idea what they want and they want to secure it as effortlessly as possible and, with internet's price-comparison sites a help clotheshanger
, for the best deal possible.
"Many men just don't like that one-to-one sales treatment you get in-store too. They find it embarrassing, or they just don't like the hassle of shopping," adds Stacey Smith, menswear buyer for clotheshanger
independent fashion chain Matches and matchesfashion.com. "That makes web shopping ideal for them."
Men are even finding their style advice online, as the likes of styleedit.com, the self-described "Yellow Pages of menswear", might suggest clothes hanger
.
"Besides which," adds Alastair Rae, co-founder of menswear label Albam, which launched an online store (www.albamclothing.com) before opening its first real-world boutique clothes hanger
, "men are also inherently lazy when it comes to shopping for clothes. They won't devote what little free time they have to shopping, as women may do, so being able to pick something online at 5pm and get it by lunchtime next day has an obvious appeal. And when men find something they really like, they tend to buy it over and over, so the internet is the perfect way to do so. You know your size, you see the colour clothes hanger
, job done."
