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In addition, I used 2007 China costume development report for little reference to help me gather more useful information. 1. Profile purchase behavior of consumers by using demographic and psychological variables In the way of questionnaire and data collection from consumers with different background, we herewith sum up some characteristics of consumers’ purchasing behavior by demographic and psychological variables. First of all, demographic variables means an individual’s some stable characteristics Nike Air Jordan 13 such as age, gender, race, nationalities, income, family, professions and so on. These stable factors will not only impact upon people’s decision making speed, but also work in some special phase of their decision making. For example, in the phase of information collection, one’s age and income will influence the numbers and types of the source of information, and influence the time he will take to collect the information. Similarly, stable factors will also impact upon what types of products a consumer will use. For instance, supposed a university Nike Air Jordan 14 professor’s annual income is the same with a government official, yet the distribution of their income will distinct a lot due to their different jobs. Their articles for daily use will be very different. In the below, we will list some purchasing behavior data affected by demographic variables. In the whole costume market, fashion women’s dress occupies 25% of China’s costume market, occupation women’s dress occupies 10%, fashion men’s dress occupies 5%, occupation men’s dress occupies 10%, sports dress occupies 10% and casual dress of man and women occupies 40%. Different kinds of groups are inclined to choose different kinds of clothes shops. For instance, among the questionnaire participants, 83% of lady white collars often go shopping in shopping malls. As for students, over half of them like to buy clothes in clothes chain stores, and, lady administrators Nike Air Jordan 15 would prefer buying clothes in department stores. As to income variable, generally speaking, all investigated participants will offer approximately 7.3% of their personal annual income in buying clothes. For Nike Air Jordan 16 example, Shanghai citizens will expend 2,300RMB on buying clothes per year; Cantonese will expend 1,850RMB, Beijing citizens will expend 1,660RMB. Lady administrators expend 3,130RMB; lady white collars expend 2,840RMB, while students just expend 900RMB [2]. We herewith also take gender variable to reveal some purchase behavior characteristic. For example, along with the rising up of “new formal dress”, those Nike Air Jordan 17 young and middle ages below 45 are inclined to buy the “new formal dress”, meanwhile, they pay more attention to casual dress. However, the styles of casual dress are alike with each other, especially in middle and low class clothes; therefore it makes them hard to choose what they really want[2]. Besides, consumers’ purchasing behavior is also influenced by their psychological variables which include sensation, motivation, experience, attitude and personality. Sensation (sense perception) is the procedure of one’s identifying, analysis and selection of the incoming messages in order to get what he needs. We get messages through sense organs: listening, looking, smelling, tasting, touching etc. Though we might capture large quantities of piecemeal messages at a time, just some of them will become our sensation. When consumers select some message, they have eliminated other bulk messages because they cannot pay attention to all of them at a time. This phenomenon is called reserve selection. If a message that might satisfy customer’s current need binds up with his expectation, he will be conscious about it. The rapider the message changes, nike shoes on salethe bigger the possibility that one can capture this message. For example, the majority of questionnaire participants told if the cut price of clothes is little, they might not aware. However, if the price is reduced to a half of the original, they must aware of it. Meanwhile, motivation can affect one’s purchase behavior. Motivation is a kind of inner motive power that encourages a person to act with a special purpose. At any time, a consumer will be influenced by more than one motivation. The intense degree of motivations will fluctuate at different timings. Many different motivations will immediately affect consumers’ purchasing behavior. For example, a potential consumer who wants to buy a pair of shoes might be attracted by the shoes’ durability, profitability, pattern and so on. If a sales just emphases one kind of characteristic Nike Air Jordan 18of the shoes’, he must not light up consumers’ purchasing behavior. As per questionnaire, 67% of the participants showed that they will buy nike shoesclothes with a momentary impulse. 65% of lady white collars would buy clothes because of its beauty but not the actual need. In addition, consumers’ purchasing experience will also affect his purchasing behavior. If one’s previous behavior leaded to a satisfactory outcome, Nike Air Jordan 22 the consumer will continue to repeat his behaviors, and, vice versa. For instance, if a salesman had a very warm attitude to the customer and its product suits his needs, the consumer will patronize this clothing shop at priority in future. Besides, consumers’ attitude to product’s price set, brand image, advertisement, salesman, service, shop environment, current and future products’ development tendency will impact upon their purchasing behavior. At last, consumers’ personality will affect a lot their purchasing behavior. Personality is one’s intrinsic essence formed by his experience and the inheritance. Every individual’s inner heart, knowledge structure, growing up experience is unique. Some typical personality characteristics are as below: inner-going, out-going, positive, aggressive, impulsive, flexible, stereo etc. The clothes that consumers’ buy will reflect their personalities. Nike Air Jordan 19 As per questionnaire, we draw conclusion that China’s costume market will develop from demand consumptionàvogue consumptionàpersonality consumption. The investigation implicates consumers’ perspective to fashion industry is: personality-oriented. The clothes suitable Nike Air Jordan 23 to consumers dominant their purchasing behavior. The most important factors that consumers regard when they buy clothes are: Size(95%), brand (91%), style(89%), price(87%) and material(80%). 2. Discuss the differences and similarities in the profiles you have created above to the ones identified by the academic research Consumer’s purchasing behavior in fashion industry has some universality and individuality compared to existing academic research opinions. First of all, let’s Nike Air Jordan 20 discuss the dissimilarities or some prominent characteristics owned by consumer’s purchasing behavior in fashion industry. Consumers pay more attention to individual personality when they buy clothes. China’s costume market will develop from demand consumptionàvogue Nike Air Jordan 21 consumptionàpersonality consumption. It is a revolution from low level demand to high level demand. The contemporary consumers become more rational when judging the fashion standard. To current various kinds of fashion tides, consumers no longer blindly follow like sheep. Relative speaking, consumers fashion buying and decision making appears to be personality-oriented and they start to lay importance on showing individual charms and style especially in the young generation. They are good at accepting new things, and are bold to try new things. Shown in the investigation data, we can foresee that in the coming days of costume consumption, costumes will become individuality, fashion in style, brand recognition and service diversification. ......