The bar chart details the yearly per capita expenditure on clothing items categorized into four types — Boys’, Girls’, Men’s, and Women’s — in the US in 1985, 1995, and 2005. Overall, women’s clothes were the most-spent-on category in all three years, with the annual spending increasing significantly by the end of the period. The expenditure amounts on men’s clothing items were lower, also witnessing a notable rise over the period, with a peak figure reported in 1995. By contrast, clothes for children required significantly less money per person, with spending on boys’ outfit remaining relatively stable, while girls’ rose more considerably.
Women and Men expended larger sums of money on clothing. The figures for the former stood at respective 480 and 500 dollars in 1985 and 1995, prior to a sharp rise, which resulted in the end-figure of approximately 680 dollars. The average expenditure for men clothes also grew, although not as consistently, from 1985’s 300 dollars, to peak at 445 dollars in 1995, ultimately seeing a decline to 400 dollars in 2005. Notably, the disparity in the yearly spending amounts was wide, with males spending an average of 100 dollars less, compared to their female counterparts.
Shopping for children clothing was considerably cheaper. For a single boy, the yearly spending numbered nearly 100 dollars in all three years. Meanwhile, spending on girls’ items witnessed a rise, matching the expenditure for boys at around 100 in 1985, increasing slightly to roughly 110 in the following decade, and averaging about 150 dollars in 2005.