The Price Inflation Of Winter Clothing Is Caused By Cotton?

The weather is getting cooler. Careful people find that the price of clothing this winter is much more expensive, many of the original three figures.

A shopping mall in Huaihe road pedestrian mall has a price tag of 1584 yuan, including a 90% feather eider. The price of a coat containing 60% wool is priced at 1432 yuan. The salesperson said, "this year's down jacket has gone up badly. The original eight hundred or nine hundred yuan is now sold for more than 1500 yuan."

Ms. Yang, who is preparing to buy down coats, said, "my monthly salary can only buy clothes."

And in the spring shopping mall in Luqiao, two women's clothing counters, four thousand or five thousand yuan and one winter dress are very common.

The price of winter clothing is rising, the analysis of people in the industry is "the misfortune of cotton".

It is reported that in March this year, domestic cotton prices once exceeded 30 thousand yuan / ton mark, and the soaring cotton prices led to the rising prices of down and cashmere.

Although cotton prices declined all the time, clothing companies had the reason to increase the price of finished garments under the stimulation of high cotton prices.

Insiders say that the production cycle of garments is at least half a year or so. Although the spot price of cotton has dropped by nearly 40% from March to now, in fact, most of the autumn winter clothing should be made of spring cotton, and many enterprises are still in the inventory stage of raw material digestion.

"Because of the soaring cotton prices last year, many enterprises blindly hoarded a lot of cotton. Now the cotton price is falling, but the cost of production is greatly increased. Clothing enterprises can only digest the cost by maintaining the high price of the finished products or even increasing the price.

In addition to the increase in raw material prices, the increase in store rents, labor costs and pportation costs also directly contributed to the rise in clothing prices.