The bar chart illustrates how much money was spent on different clothes per person in the US from 1985 to 2005.
Overall, all the categories recorded the upward trends in clothes spending. Additionally, women’s clothes saw the highest amount of spending throughout the period, followed by men’s clothes.
Focusing on adults’ clothes, men and women both accounted for an increase, but spending on men’s clothes fluctuated more significantly. Women’s clothes 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’ clothes showed the lowest spending per capita in dollars. Moreover, boys’ clothes 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 of boys in 1985 to approximately $150 by 2005.
