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Top Clothing Shop Websites for Inspiration

One of the biggest drawbacks to having a clothing shop website is that people generally like to try clothes on to see if it fits, if it’s their color etc. To compensate for this, a top clothing online business will have to work that little bit harder than a bricks and mortar store to encourage sales. In trying to create your own website there are a veritable bounty of online clothing shops that will provide you with some very good inspiration.

Doesn’t have to cost the earth

For smaller and newer businesses, a large budget to create an online store is a rarity. To create your own website should not be an expensive or complex task. A good website to provide as an example is Astor & Black. The design is stylish and modern with a good feel of elegance about it. Black and white photographs are used as well as color ones giving a visually pleasing website that isn’t too cluttered and is very easy on the eye. With so many Flash templates and free web page designs at your disposal, to set up something similar with its sleek and classy design and easily navigational layout can be achieved free of charge.

For good inspiration on how a business website in the clothing industry can be created, look at Astor & Black where a great blend of style and modernity has been achieved using just one of many free business website templates at your finger tips.

Give them choice

Giving choice is important for a number of reasons. Firstly visitors want to know what there is available and secondly the more you can offer, the more chance you can convert visitors into sales and existing customers into customers who spend more.

It is important to avoid putting every possible item on display and this will only clutter the website and be a turn off for visitors. Make things clear and easily locatable, with categories defined precisely and links being simple to click and quick to download. A good example of this is Busted Tees where they manage to make their entire t-shirt range visible and scrollable on the opening page without bombarding the visitor with too much information. All the products are set against a plain white background and all the necessary information such as shopping cart, contact information and special deals are easily located. The design is a funky and fresh design that keeps it simple and is everything you would expect of a funky t-shirt online shop. Giving the visitor such choice by allowing them to scroll down is something that can be achieved by almost anyone using one of the many free business website design templates and from the vast resource tool that is the internet.

Has everything

A great website to gain inspiration from is Next.co.uk. This is a website that just about ticks all the boxes to being a top online clothing store. Sleek and modern design, easy to use navigation and quick loading are all features that anyone looking to make a website can aspire to.

Simple colors are used, in this case a plain black background, which really offsets the bright and clear photographs used. Categories are simple to locate and the link through happens very quickly. Photographs are used to further clarify the categories making the navigation of this site as simple as possible for the visitor.

Everything you would expect of a top online clothes store is here at Next.co.uk and for if you are seeking to create a website that is within the clothes industry this is a good business web site to gain inspiration and use any of many resources to create a business website for free.


When looking to create your own website that sells clothes, it is important to look at what the competition are doing and what works for them and what doesn’t work. With so much out there to gain inspiration from, and so many tools to use to create a leading online clothes store is a task that is very much easily attainable.


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