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Clothing prices and wages rise with wartime costs
The text analyzes how farm prices, wages, and clothes costs shifted from 1914 to 1919, showing how a farmer could buy a $60 suit with fewer bushels of corn or pounds of cotton as prices rose. It notes higher wages and ongoing demand for quality clothes from producers and workers alike.
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