Womenswear

Womenswear showed positive growth in 2022, continuing its way towards recovery but still below pre-pandemic levels in both value and volume terms. The year 2021 saw the beginnings of post-pandemic recovery, with more opportunities for purchases of…

Rising inflation has continued to limit consumer spending power in 2022 causing a decline in retail volume terms in 2022 although current value sales remained buoyant. Unit prices have continued to rise in 2022 driven by higher operating costs and…

Following strong double-digit current value growth in 2021, womenswear turned to decline across all categories in 2022, due to the resurgence of COVID-19 in the country. This was mainly due to restrictions on offline consumption, and supply chain…

Womenswear has been one of the industry’s strongest performers in Chile over 2022, along with footwear and sportswear. Although growth is evident across most of the category, women’s outerwear is the leader, and is being driven by the versatility of…

Womenswear in Indonesia recorded double-digit volume growth in 2021’s rebound surge following deep dips during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The adverse economic environment that unfolded over the course of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic…

The impact of COVID-19 continued in 2022, as the states of emergency and quasi-states of emergency announced to prevent the spread of the virus continued in Tokyo, Osaka, and other major cities until the end of March 2022. However, womenswear showed…

Female Filipino consumers are increasingly looking for clothes that are versatile and can be used in a wide range of situations. This demand is underpinned by a combination of general fashion trends towards more casual apparel, the growing consumer…

As pandemic-related restrictions eased in South Africa, the country faced the highest level of inflation in 2022 seen since 2017. The country witnessed an all-time high rise in the price of various products and services such as food, electricity,…

In 2021, womenswear was able to rebound fully from the declines seen during the pandemic in 2020 in both retail volume and current value terms. Nevertheless, growth continued in 2022, as people continued updating their wardrobes with new clothing.…

Womenswear registered a significant drop in 2020, when Portugal was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and there were many restrictions including the closure of apparel specialists. Since 2021, the category has shown signs of recovery with robust retail…

After a year of decline due to the impact of COVID-19 and cautious shopping behaviour, retail sales of womenswear rebounded in 2022 in both volume and value terms. People have come to conceptualise COVID-19 as an endemic and coexist with the virus.…

Womenswear recovered strongly and surpassed the pre-pandemic (2019) level of sales in both volume and current value terms in 2021, driven by the release of consumers’ pent-up demand, as they revamped their wardrobes and returned to normal life when…

In 2021 womenswear saw the first signs of strong rebound growth, after being drastically negatively affected by the pandemic in 2020. In June 2021 restrictions on the operation of shopping centres were lifted, which helped foot traffic start to…

Demand for womenswear continued to increase in Australia in 2022, with local consumers emerging out of lockdowns with greater interest in updating their current wardrobes. This resulted in womenswear’s retail volume and value sales fully recovering…

In 2022, with no lockdowns and no major wave of COVID-19, mobility returned to normal across the country. This allowed people to get back to activities such as socialising, organising events and visiting workspaces with ease, which aided the recovery…

Across much of the category, womenswear in Germany experienced a dynamic performance in 2022, although retail volume sales remained below pre-pandemic levels following notable declines. After experiencing a double-digit drop in sales in 2020, women's…

The emergency aid given by the local government as part of its support for vulnerable families during the pandemic was a strong growth driver in 2020, especially for fast-moving consumer goods with shorter lifecycles (such as packaged food and…

Womenswear saw current value sales rise by 8% in 2022, primarily driven by outerwear sales. The Swedish economy rebounded following the pandemic amid higher vaccination rates, which allowed women in Sweden to return to pre-COVID-19 routines. Women’s…

With COVID-19-related lockdowns and restrictions being fully lifted in the UK in the summer of 2021, many retailers reopened, and womenswear saw healthy growth during the year, beginning its recovery to the pre-pandemic levels of sales. However, the…

After the strict restrictions and work from home policy during the pandemic in Singapore, many individuals are now used to working from home, and enjoy the luxury and benefit of doing so. Many companies in Singapore have therefore permanently adopted…