私の前職はアパレルです。仕事の大半は、店頭でお客様と色々なお話をし、ニーズを汲み取りながら、お客様に満足してお買い物をして頂けるお手伝いをしていました。「またこのお店に来て買い物をしたい」と一人でも多くのお客様に感じて頂けるよう、毎日励んでおりました。そして、隙間の時間を見つけて、S N S発信をしていたり、しなかったり、、、そんな毎日が当たり前でしたが、昨今のコロナ禍の影響でそんなアパレル業界のスタンスが180度、変化していきました。
My previous job was related to fashion.Mostly, I was talking about various things to customers at a shop, catching their needs, and helping their shopping to make them feel very satisfied. I was making efforts every day because I wanted many customers to feel like that they would like to go shopping again at this shop.”sometimes not...Spending such days were ordinary for me, but these days the covid-19 pandemic really changed the stance of fashion industries as well.
Influence of fashion
If you change your fashion, it will affect people’s feelings as well.For example, you will be feel better and positive when you wear your favorite clothes.
However, if you don’t wear them, you might feel negative, irritated and down.
Changes in how to face clothes
After the covid-19 pandemic caused around the world, probably how to face clothes has been changing not only in Japan but also overseas.People lost the places to wear clothes and the purposes to become fashionable due to the lockdown overseas and the restrictions of the state of emergency in Japan.
If that’s the case, not only good looking but also wearing them comfortably will be important.In fact, it seems that clothes like casual wears, sweatshirts and fleeces were truly sold to spend at home comfortably.
Think about the meaning of buying clothes
Up to now, I often bought cheap, pretty and limited edition items with feelings of “I’ll buy it for the time being.” and “I’ll wear it someday.”But now, first I will think carefully before buying clothes like, “in which scene can I can wear it, if I buy this outfit?”, and have had more opportunities to stop buying the clothes that I don’t wear so much.Due to the influence of staying at home, the number of people who work remotely is increasing, and it’s a shame that when I can see myself on the screen during meetings such as zoom, when my looks are not cool or dressed up.Such scenes will become ordinary soon and people will need to be very conscious about fashion at home.
This is exactly the new normal times.You will buy fashionable and relaxing clothes that you can wear at home or outside.Inevitably, the number of clothes purchased will decrease.When you buy one, you will start to think about what you really need.You will be able to wear each and every one carefully.Isn’t it a new stance that matches the trends of this future society?As consumers, probably we will not return how to face and buy clothes before the covid-19 pandemic, and it seems that we will start the new normal times.
Online and Offline
These days staying at home is normal for people.The number of people who use online shopping stores extremely increased. You can use them for 24 hours without visiting stores and transportation expenses, search what you want easily and compare items.People call such way of shopping “online”.“Offline” means going to stores directly, and shop while talking to shop staffs.It must be the traditional standard style.
Firsthand information・Secondhand information
Do you know the words of firsthand information and secondhand information ?
The firsthand information is the information that you have directly experienced, or the real information that you have obtained through research and experiments.Staffs at stores will propose coordination that meets their needs after seeing and talking to customers about detailed explanation of the product you are interested in, good fit when you wear it, advantages and disadvantages of the product.You can gain more accurate and realistic information.
The secondhand information is the information that can be obtained through others, and it might have disadvantages a little because you cannot directly ask about detailed comfortable to wear, styles, and in-depth questions about products, so you cannot gain a real information.When applied to shopping, offline shopping would be the firsthand information and online shopping would be the secondhand information.
It would be important to use the two information based on the situations.I think you can enjoy shopping more conveniently than ever before if you can use it properly, such as using online for normal shopping and offline at the right time when you really want to use it.
Let’s go shopping in a way to satisfy feelings.
I think clothes have an important role to color your life and enrich your feelings.In the near future, online will become common, and I feel that the scarcity value of offline in that time will increase little by little.The times in which you will be able to choose where, from whom, how to shop.I want you to make a satisfying purchase with the purchase way that suits you.