Online clothes shopping grows

Record numbers of Britons are getting dressed via the internet. Instead of hitting the high street, shoppers are switching to the electronic super-highway making clothing the fastest-growing sector of online shopping with March sales of almost £100 million ($282 million), the industry body representing online retailers said.

Sales in the combined clothing, footwear and accessories market online have soared by 476 per cent since 2001 and now represent 9 per cent of internet shopping sales in the UK.