What Britain Wears: Swim & Beachwear

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With over half of consumers purchasing swim & beachwear for every holiday they take, the popularity of this category proves to be resilient. The appeal of festivals has also helped widen the range of occasions in which swim & beachwear is worn, with cover-ups increasingly being worn on muddy fields as festival chic.
Over a quarter of clothing shoppers purchased swim & beachwear, driven by female shoppers. Product overlap was particularly high in areas such as tankinis, with almost three quarters of those purchasing a tankini also buying a cover-up. With tankinis proving to be popular among middle-aged shoppers and mums, the potential to sell add on items such as kaftans and sarongs is higher among this age group with these consumers more body conscious and wanting versatile items for beach-to-dine.

The What Britain Wears: Swim & Beachwear capsule report offers comprehensive insight and analysis of the UK market, the major players, the main trends, and consumer attitudes.

It provides in-depth analysis of the following:
– Strategies for success
– Product, retailer and consumer headlines
– In-depth product analysis
– Retailer usage and key drivers
– Channel location, by gender
– Consumer attitudes to swim & beachwear

Scope

– On average men spend more per swimwear item than women, due to the heavier influence of brands, with the 34–45s spending the most. The desire for long lasting, good quality swimwear among males reduces volumes and shopper frequency, but ensures higher transaction values.

– The popularity of sporty styles has been strong in 2016, with ranges from Calvin Klein, Seafolly and Misguided all placing their own individual take on the trend. Noticeable by its high necklines and bold colours, this trend is expected to transcend into 2017, as the continued focus on healthy lifestyles continues to shape both fashion and lifestyle choices.

– Retailer competition for swim & beachwear is rife, with value retailers Primark, H&M, and Tesco at one end, and quality and brand driven retailers M&S, ASOS and Debenhams at the other. This polarisation is caused by the different purchase drivers across shoppers.

– Over two-fifths of swim & beachwear shoppers purchased a cover-up in the past 12 months. Therefore it is important that retailers design cover-up collections alongside swimwear and their core clothing offer to ensure key seasonal trends are translated.

Reasons to Buy

– Learn from the best and worst retailers for instore visual merchandising, online propositions and trend incorporation by using our product and retailer analysis, and apply this knowledge to your own business.

– Using our comprehensive consumer analysis, understand the different needs and expectations of various ages groups and genders when shopping for swim & beachwear and use this to create a multi-faceted marketing strategy for the category.

– Use our consumer data on what clothing sizes both women and men bought in swim & beachwear to help with more precise and accurate investment when sourcing and buying this category.

ASOS
Net-a-Porter
H&M
Next
Topshop
Misguided
Topman
Nike
Ted Baker
Primark
M&S
Asda
Debenhams
Amazon
Tesco
Sports Direct
Harrods
Melissa Odabash
Missoni
Accessorize

Table of Contents

Summary

Strategies For Success

Definitions

Product Analysis

Product Headlines

Product Drivers

Average Size

Swimwear & Beachwear Trends 2016 & 2017

Retailer Developments

Retailer Headlines

Retailer Usage – Top 10

Store Drivers

Online Store Drivers

Instore Merchandising

Online Merchandising

Competitor Overlap

Consumer Data

Consumer Headlines

Who’s Buying?

Who’s Buying What?

Product Overlap

Who’s Buying What Online?

How Often are Consumers Shopping?

Which Channels are Consumers Shopping?

Opinion about Swim & Beachwear

Technical Details

Frequently asked questions

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