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Black Dress Pants

Fail

An estimated 12.9% of orders come back, so Black Dress Pants is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 8,414 of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · on the category median
Market size
$188K/yr1.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+10.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 26 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Dress Pants against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Black Dress Pants is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Dress Pants market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Dress Pants 1.0M times last year and spent an estimated $188K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Oct. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +10.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $188K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+10.4%
Conversion, latest week
0.7%
Market size, estimated
$188Ka year
Peak month
July4.2× the quietest month
Top search term
black slacks men239K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $28.22.

Listings sell for $28.22 on average, from $18.67 to $43.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $28.22 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$28.22inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$18.67–$43.11
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
12.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #169 within Pants. It carries 4,718 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.3%
Average rank
#169in Pants
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,718per listing
Listings tracked
40

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Black Dress Pants products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 40% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

26

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 77%

Open market

20%

  • Brand 133%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Black Dress Pants search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

300K200KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.2×

Search terms

Top Black Dress Pants search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • black slacks men239K/yr
  • plaid and plain mens pants59K/yr
  • navy blue dress pants for men60K/yr
  • grey dress pants men77K/yr
  • haggar48K/yr
  • suit pants50K/yr
  • van heusen dress pants for men52K/yr
  • mens navy dress pants38K/yr
  • blue dress pants men39K/yr
  • gray dress pants men39K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Dress Pants

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

34%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
18%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
12.9%of orders come back
“Too tight”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”18% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Dress Pants questions

Answered from the same tracked data.