{"id":11369,"date":"2014-08-22T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:59:15","slug":"consumers-love-athletic-clothing-athletics-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/consumers-love-athletic-clothing-athletics-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers Love Athletic Clothing. Athletics Not So Much."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/082214_1155_ConsumersLo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Germano wrote about the surge in demand for athletic clothing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a economy that continues to struggle, athletic apparel is a bright spot, expected to grow by almost 50% to $200 billion by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s odd though is that while demand for exercise clothing is high, consumers are increasingly avoiding exercise.<\/li>\n<li>Instead wearing athlete clothing seems to be becoming fashionable, especially with millennials.<\/li>\n<li>This business is known as &#8220;athleisure&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Demand for yoga clothing, for example, is growing about ten times faster than participation in yoga.<\/li>\n<li>Boots and flannels are also becoming popular with those who have no plans to go hiking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the peculiarities of the athleisure market, what wearers of the clothing have to say, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/yoga-poseurs-athletic-apparel-moves-out-of-the-gym-to-every-day-1408561182\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/yoga-poseurs-athletic-apparel-moves-out-of-the-gym-to-every-day-1408561182\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Germano wrote about the surge in demand for athletic clothing: In a economy that continues to struggle, athletic apparel is a bright spot, expected to grow by almost 50% to $200 billion by 2020. What&#8217;s odd though is that while demand for exercise clothing is high, consumers are increasingly avoiding exercise. Instead wearing athlete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/082214_1155_ConsumersLo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11372,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions\/11372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}