The bar chart illustrates how much money was spent on different clothes per person in the U.S. from 1985 to 2005.
Overall, all the categories recorded upward trends in clothing spending. Additionally, women’s dresses saw the highest amount of spending throughout the period, followed by men’s togs.
Focusing on adults’ clothes, men and women both accounted for an increase, but expenditure on men’s outfits fluctuated more significantly. Women’s dresses significantly rose from $500 in 1985 to $650 by 2005. Furthermore, men’s clothes leveled off from $300 in 1985 to a peak of $450 in 1995 before declining to $400 by 2005.
Both boys’ and girls’ garments showed the lowest outlay per capita in dollars. Moreover, boys’ outfits marginally stabilized from $80 in 1985 to $100 in 1995 and then remained stable by 2005. There was a steady increase of $20 per ten years, from the same starting point for boys in 1985 to approximately $150 by 2005.