The Price Of Autumn Clothes On The Market Rises By 20%&Nbsp; Clothing Prices May Be Reduced In Spring And Summer Next Year

During the National Day, new autumn clothes came into the market one after another. Having visited shopping malls and specialty stores consumer It may be found that the autumn clothes on the market this year are expensive, and a slightly better coat can't be bought without seven or eight hundred yuan.

The reporter learned that the domestic cotton price has dropped by 40% in the past six months, but Autumn dress On the contrary, the price rose by 20%. For no other reason, autumn clothes suffer from "the sequela of cotton price" - most of the materials are high priced spring cotton. However, insiders predict that due to the low cotton price, the price of spring clothing next year may be lower.

Market: The price of autumn clothes on the market rises by 20%

"I can't afford to buy clothes now. A better coat in the mall costs seven or eight hundred yuan." Mr. Xu is an ordinary merchant on the Biwang Zipper Professional Street in Yiwu. The night before yesterday, accompanied by his girlfriend, he went to various places in the city Big shopping mall , I walked around and found that the price of the new autumn coat was frighteningly high. The cheapest ones cost five or six hundred yuan, and the high ones cost thousands of yuan. Mr. Xu even said that he "dare not go shopping".

During the "National Day" period, the reporter saw in several shopping malls and some brand clothing stores in the urban area that almost all businesses placed their newly listed autumn clothes in the most eye-catching position on the counter. Although the National Day promotion reached a discount of six to nine percent, the price of autumn clothes is not low.

In a shopping mall near Xiuhu Square, the reporter picked up a thin coat for men, which was priced close to 800 yuan. The counter salesperson said that it was very common for men's coats to cost seven or eight hundred yuan each, but last year similar styles could be settled at five or six hundred yuan. In addition, the increase of women's clothing is slightly smaller due to the relatively large discount, but the coat with more than 1000 yuan is also common.

In addition to shopping malls, the prices of autumn clothing in street side brand stores and professional wholesale markets are also generally raised. "The price of autumn clothes has increased by about 20% this year," said the owner of a brand store on Huangyuan Road. Among sports brands, the latest news of Li Ning Company said that the price of shoes will rise 7.8% in the fourth quarter, and the price of clothing will rise 17.9%.

Merchants: new materials multi-purpose spring cotton

Cotton is indispensable for the production of brand clothing. "The price of autumn clothes rises because of the high price of cotton." Mr. Yang, the clothing operator of Yiwu Huangyuan Market, has a small clothing processing factory in Hangzhou. According to him, since the second half of last year, the price of cotton has soared, and the price of cotton clothing has increased accordingly, with an average year-on-year increase of 20%.

It is understood that the quotation of domestic cotton was about 18000 yuan/ton in September 2010, and then went up all the way. By March 2011, the quotation had broken through the 30000 yuan/ton mark, reaching the highest value in ten years. At that time, some insiders predicted that cotton prices might continue to rise. Fortunately, since April this year, the domestic cotton price has dropped significantly, and has now dropped to around 20000 yuan/ton.

However, it is puzzling that the price of cotton has fallen, why will the price of autumn clothes rise?

Ms. Lou, who runs the cotton socks business in Yiwu International Trade City, said that most of the newly listed autumn clothes and socks are for domestic sales, while domestic products are generally in stock. In other words, the production was completed several months ago. The price of cotton or cotton yarn purchased at that time was at a high level, which was also the main reason for the strange phenomenon of "cotton price falling and autumn clothing price rising".

Some insiders said that the cotton price has dropped by nearly 40% since March, but in fact, most autumn clothes are made of spring cotton.

It is reported that due to the soaring cotton prices last year, many cotton enterprises blindly hoarded a large amount of cotton. Now, the decline in cotton prices has increased the production costs of enterprises, leading to higher product prices. Affected by this, it is reasonable for the price of autumn clothing to rise.

Some textile enterprise leaders said that it would take some time for the cotton price decline to transmit from upstream to textile enterprises. At present, most of the cotton used by textile enterprises is the high price cotton purchased in the first half of the year. At that time, the cotton price was around 30000 yuan per ton.

Trend: clothing prices may be reduced in spring and summer next year

In autumn, the weather turns cool. In the past two days, many citizens went to shopping malls or specialty stores to buy new clothes, and the clothing industry began to usher in the peak season in autumn and winter.

The domestic cotton is mainly planted in the north. Due to the continuous sunny weather in recent years, the cotton market supply is sufficient due to the large number of cotton picking and marketing in the major cotton producing areas in the north. Therefore, it is unlikely that cotton will rise sharply in the short term.

The reporter learned from some textile and cotton socks business accounts that although the prices of cotton autumn clothing and cotton socks are rising, the inventory products of most enterprises will be digested in the sales process of this round of autumn clothing, and then purchase raw materials such as cotton or cotton yarn at a lower price.

At present, the price of domestic cotton is about 20000 yuan/ton, and the quotations of some provinces and cities are even the same as before the surge. Some futures analysts believe that the cotton price may be at a low level for some time in the future due to the good cotton production in China this year, the large supply of goods and the lack of hot money speculation.

In the field of production, some producers and operators often choose opportunities to purchase low-cost raw materials. According to the production and marketing cycle, many manufacturers have begun to design and produce new models for next spring and summer. Therefore, some insiders predict that on the one hand, the price of raw material cotton will fall, and on the other hand, the price rise will cause the overstock of spring clothing inventory in 2011. There is a great possibility of price reduction in spring clothing next year, which may reach 10% or 20%.

However, some businesses believe that under the coexistence of high inflation and high production costs, the price of clothing in spring and summer next year is unlikely to drop significantly.