Fashion retailing and the bottom line: The effects of generational cohorts, gender, fashion fanship, attitudes and impulse buying on fashion expenditure

Robin Pentecost and Lynda Andrews

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2010, vol. 17, issue 1, 43-52

Abstract: This study examines the influence of demographic (e.g. gender and generational cohort) and psychographic (e.g. fashion fanship, attitudes and impulse buying) drivers on frequency and levels of expenditure on fashion purchases. Using regression analysis, the results suggest that for weekly and monthly expenditure, gender and fashion fanship were significant influences, while for yearly expenditure, gender and impulse buying were significant. Attitudes towards fashion had no significant influence on expenditure. Females purchase more often and were significantly different from males on yearly expenditure, fashion fanship, attitudes and impulse buying. Generation Y is higher on purchase frequency, fashion fanship, attitudes and impulse buying compared with other cohorts under investigation.

Keywords: Fashion expenditure; Psychographic drivers; Gender and generational cohorts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2009.09.003

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