The Price Of Cotton Autumn And Winter Clothing Will Increase By 20% This Year.

Data from major garment wholesale markets and manufacturers show that cotton prices for autumn and winter clothing will rise 20% this year as cotton prices in the upper reaches increase by about 50% a year.

Last week, Ms. ran went to the mother and baby house at the new memorial archway for the children to replace the kettle. She saw the clerk busy on the autumn dress, and the days were cooling down.

"Why so expensive!"

Ms. ran picked up a three piece suit and looked carefully at the price tag "212 yuan".

"These are the autumn clothes that we only got today. We also feel that the price has risen by about 20%."

The boss began to introduce to the old customers.

"The former three piece suit is still popular with customers.

Clothing upstream felt pressure

It is not just the mother and baby store of the retail terminal that the price of clothing is rising. As the upper reaches of the retail terminal, the garment factory has already felt the pressure of "rising prices of autumn clothes".

Xie Sheng, who owns a clothing factory and wholesale clothing in Chaotianmen market, is one of them.

"We were only prepared to produce autumn clothes in June and July, just in time to catch up with the worst price of fabrics."

He said that the factory price of autumn clothes this year is generally more than 20% higher than that of last year. "An ordinary windbreaker may last only 100 yuan last year, at least 130 yuan this year."

This story is not a case of small and medium-sized enterprises. The sportswear brand "Lining" announced in June this year that the retail price of clothing products will increase by 17.9% in the fourth quarter of this year.

Just last week, the sportswear brand "XTEP" issued a semi annual report, its clothing products average selling price reached 52.5 yuan, the average time rose 13.9% in half a year.

In addition, the earnings of another sports brand Anta showed that the price of Anta clothing category rose by 7.1% in the first half of this year.

According to the wholesale market in Chaotianmen, clothing, including warm underwear, home clothes, infant clothing, underwear and so on, has risen with 15%~20%.

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Cotton crazily rises 50% a year

Why is the price of autumn clothes rising?

In addition to the high wages of the coastal areas and the environmental costs of printing and dyeing mills, the industry has generally focused on the cotton prices that have gone wild this year.

Deng Xiaoqin, the founder of the women's clothing brand "dream poem" and "Yi ti", has been very glad to "start quickly", and finished the raw material order of this autumn and winter before February.

"Around April, the import fabric of foreign countries began to rise rapidly, and the fabric of Italy last year, as long as 90 yuan per yard, now has risen to more than 110 yuan."

She said that the price of imported fabrics has generally risen by more than 10%. "If we hadn't made it early, we would have been forced to raise prices."

Deng Xiaoqin was lucky to have made his own decision.

Domestic fabrics are more "Crazy" than foreign fabrics.

"More than a month ago, the cotton purchase price in Chongqing reached 20 thousand yuan per ton."

Zhou Wei, general manager of Chongqing Hua Cheng Si cotton textile company, which has long been concerned about cotton price trend for more than 10 years, said that although the cotton purchase price has dropped somewhat recently, around 18 thousand yuan / ton, but compared with last year, the price increase has been staggering, resulting in a rise of more than 20% in this year's autumn and winter clothing accessories.

China's cotton price index shows that in 2009, the average price of standard cotton was 12831 yuan / ton average price, but in July this year has reached 18165 yuan / ton.

Its gain is nearly 50%.

"In September, domestic cotton" new flower "will be listed, and cotton prices should continue to fall a little.

But Zhou Wei felt that at that time, it had entered the preparatory stage for the spring and summer new clothes next year. The price rise of cotton products this autumn and winter is the trend of the times.