Clothing Will be
Higher This Fall
The continued increase in the cost of materials used in
making suits, overcoats, etc., indicates that all woolen apparel will be about
65 per cent higher next fall, than in the fall of 1919. Manufacturers say that
not only have the woolen fabrics advanced, but that linings have advanced,
together with labor, about 35 per cent.
This increased cost of material and labor means that suits
that sold for $50 last fall will have to be sold for $82.50 this fall, and that
an overcoat which sold for $100 last winter will be marked $162.50.
This increase will not be due to profiteering on the part of
the local merchants as they will really make less money when a suit could be
bought for $20 and $25. It will work a considerable hardship on the merchants
to carry as large a stock as they usually carry, as the money necessary to
purchase a large stock of clothing would be equal to a small fortune.
Furthermore, the retailer is met with the proposition of paying his clerks higher
wages, rents are higher, freight rates have increased, and so with every other
item of expense.
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