The given chart illustrates how much money each person spent on clothing among many categories namely: male, female, girl and boy in the US annually, for three separate years: 1985, 1995 and 2005.
Overall, it is clear that the spending for women’s and men’s clothes dominated over the given years with female’s clothing ranked first. In contrast, boys’ and girls’ clothes attracted the lowest spending throughout the period.
While the proportion of women’s clothes started around $500 in 1985 – the highest level among 4 categories, it exhibited its domination approximately $650 until 2005. Moreover, despite increasing and hitting its peak at around $450 in 1995, spending on men’s clothes decreased moderately to $400 in the final year.
Regarding boys’ clothes, the expenditure stayed almost unchanged at about $100 from 1985 to 2005, leading to the lowest consumption among 4 categories in three years. By contrast, although the figure for girls’ clothes stood at the same level as boy in 1985, this number rose constantly and stopped at nearly $170 in 2005.