Show RURAL MEN AVERAGE 38 A YEAR FOR garr GARB farm clothes match income survey reveals reveal washington what the well dressed country gentleman wears was recently studied by dr louise louisa stanley of the department of agri culture whose survey reveals th the average rural family man spends 38 a year for clothes citizens of 19 small cities villages and 66 farm counties were questioned about their clothing bills in such communities as mt gilead ohio farmer city ill and state center iowa families with small incomes of 1500 a year or more allowed the head of 0 the family to spend 16 a year for suits trousers and shirts underwear and hose took 5 and footwear cost 7 per year over 4 was spent for coats and other wraps men in the 2000 income class spend an average of per year for clothing itemized as follows hats 8 coats and other wraps 21 suits trousers and shirts 69 underwear and hose 19 footwear including repairs 11 all other clothing 27 not until total family incomes reach a year do husbands feel free to spend over for their personal apparel A noteworthy slump in yearly clothing expenditures was shown for men over thirty years of age young men from sixteen to twenty nine spend from 23 in one of the lowest income brackets to 88 in one of the highest men over thirty spend from 11 in the lowest income bracket to 57 in one of the highest brackets although these estimates include the average rural citizens expenditures at all ages they do not go into the highest income brackets of or more figures for men and women differed little the larger amounts for the wives lay mostly in coats coat and underwear |