The line graph compares the sales of five different types of items – women’s clothes, men’s clothes, sports equipment, cosmetics, and jewellery – in four seasons ( Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn) in a US department store in 2011. Overall, women’s clothes stand out as the highest sold item among others, while men’s clothes were at the other end of the spectrum, representing fluctuations throughout the period. Of particular note is that the remaining categories showed a gradual upward trend despite oscillations over time.
In winter, women’s clothes were the category with the greatest sales, sold around 40,000 US dollars before doubling to 80,000 US dollars in Summer. Strikingly, this figure showed substantial growth throughout the period and stood at 110,000 US dollars and consolidated its dominance by Autumn. By contrast, demand for men’s clothes was relatively lower than that of women’s, approximately made up 30,000 US dollars in Winter despite oscillating around 20,000 US dollars in Spring and 40,000 US dollars in Summer, in Autumn, the figure recovered to its original level.
With regard to the sales of sports equipment, initially, their sales accounted for 33,000 US dollars which was as high as cosmetics, before dipping to 20,000 US dollars in Summer. However, as with other categories, the figure for sports equipment also witnessed a considerable increase to 40,000 in Autumn, which was the popular season for this figure. Turning to the figure for cosmetics and jewellery, by Spring their sales edged down from around 28,000 US dollars and 20,000 US dollars to 20,000 and 18,000 US Dollars. From Summer to Autumn, the corresponding figure for jewellery surpassed cosmetics and reached 58,000 US dollars, whereas cosmetics sold surged to 45,000 US Dollars.