Apparel Accessories

Apparel and footwear is the second largest consumer goods industry globally. Despite its maturity and sheer size, the industry expects a positive outlook, thanks to strong growth in China and India. These two Asian powerhouses are expected to be top ...

Apparel accessories, especially hats, caps, ties and belts, are seeing growing demand. Consumers are now using accessories as fashion statements to style the same outfit differently. Accessories are gaining popularity among men as well, who think ...

International fast fashion brands such as H&M, Zara, and Mango have launched more trendsetting designs and a wider collection of apparel accessories that align with the apparel fashion they have launched. Notably, these fast fashion brands usually ...

Chilean consumers’ increasing participation in sports and outdoor activities and the related rise of sports-inspired clothing are having a particularly notable influence on the development of apparel accessories. Major sportswear brands such as ...

For economy brands, impulse purchases and fashion trends drives demand for apparel accessories, with consumers purchasing these products to add variety and interest to their outfit. These products are typically strategically positioned close to ...

Most apparel accessories, including gloves, hats, scarves and ties, are generally considered to be non-essential for the average Egyptian’s wardrobe. Most consumers use these accessories for years before thinking to replace them. This is especially ...

Despite the tough competition from unbranded and counterfeit products, apparel accessories experienced strong current value growth in 2018. The first contributing factor was the accelerating level of disposable incomes, leading to higher living ...

The increasing adaptation to modest wear from both local and international apparel brands fuelled growth of scarves in 2018. Scarves is increasingly being featured as an important apparel accessory, while being constantly worn by Muslim women. For ...

In 2018, consumers in Saudi Arabia limited their expenditure by spending only on necessities. However, unlike some other categories, apparel accessories still saw current value growth in Saudi Arabia. The category is mainly dominated by scarves, as ...

Scarves remain essential items for women in the United Arab Emirates. Being a Muslim country, women are encouraged to dress modestly, and the women’s national dress consists of an abaya, which is a black robe, along with a sheila, which means scarf. ...

Growth in apparel accessories over the forecast period is expected to be driven by the rise of personal style, the desire to keep pace with latest fashion trends pushed by fast fashion brands and growing disposable incomes after a difficult 2017; ...

Apparel accessories is a highly fashion-driven category. This fact is underlined by the relatively strong performance of scarves at the end of the review period. Scarves offers relatively little functional value in the Singaporean climate, but ...

Having grown very strongly in the early part of the review period, apparel accessories’ growth slowed sharply in volume and value in 2016, and began to recover in 2017 and 2018. This improvement should continue at a stronger pace over the forecast ...

In 2018, apparel accessories continued to record positive current value growth, with sales supported by an increasing number of apparel collections from retail brands throughout the year. German consumers are increasingly looking for apparel ...

Even though 2018 witnessed the end of the last memorandum of the Greek Economic Adjustment Programme put in place in 2010 to cope with the Greek government debt crisis, consumer confidence and purchasing power remained low. This hindered growth of ...

Italian consumers’ confidence, although slightly improving, will remain low and continue to curb the development of apparel accessories, considered as non-essential items. Consumers are purchasing more of these items during summer and winter sales or...

Poles' demand for being unique and distinct will result in positive development of apparel accessories over the forecast period. Accessories are perceived as a relatively inexpensive and interesting way to present oneself in an attractive manner, ...

As apparel accessories are not considered a priority, the economic crisis immediately impacted the performance of the category, since many consumers opted to prioritise more basic categories, even within apparel and footwear. In 2016, during the peak...

Overall value growth in apparel accessories has been supported by all categories except ties. The downward trend in ties is a result of more relaxed dress code at workplace. Meanwhile, scarves remains the biggest category in apparel accessories, ...

Apparel is not the only beneficiary of the ongoing popular streetwear trend, with dad hats and caps also growing in popularity. To address the local demand driven by the streetwear culture, brands ranging from Off-White to Balenciaga have all ...