Fall fashion season is here and data from Slice Intelligence shows jeans are out and leggings are in. In each of the past three months, women have ordered more leggings than jeans online compared to the same period last year. In the last year alone leggings orders have grown by 41 percent. Denim orders, meanwhile, have only grown by three percent over the same period.
Though leggings orders are on the rise, women are still spending more on jeans. In the last year, spending on jeans has generated 48 percent more money online than leggings– likely because jeans typically cost more. On average, female shoppers are spending $62 on jeans, while leggings purchases usually amount to half of that.
Women buy jeans and leggings mostly from Nordstrom and Amazon
Even though their styles may differ, women order jeans and leggings mainly through Nordstrom and Amazon. Nordstrom is the top seller of denim by volume, and is the second largest online retailer for leggings orders. For leggings, women are ordering first with Amazon.
The West wears jeans, the rest wear leggings
So why are leggings becoming so popular? The reason might be found in our country’s geography. Women in Northeastern and Midwestern states are ordering more leggings, while women in states west of the Mississippi are favoring the traditional denim. South Dakota and New Jersey prefer leggings the most while Idaho and Wyoming favor the denim.
About this data
With a panel of over 4 million online shoppers, Slice Intelligence gives the most detailed, and accurate digital commerce data available, and is reported daily.
Slice Intelligence is the only service to measure digital commerce directly from the consumer, across all retailers, at the item level, and over time. Our retailer-independent methodology precisely measures commerce as it happens. By extracting detailed information from hundreds of millions of aggregated and anonymized e-receipts, Slice can map the entire Purchase Graph, connecting each and every consumer to all their purchases.
Slice gets its data from e-receipts – not a browser, app or software installed by the end-user – so its measurement reflects comprehensive shopping behavior across multiple devices, over time which are key in an increasingly omnichannel retail world. Slice Intelligence is the exclusive e-commerce data provider for the NPD’s Checkout Tracking e-commerce service.