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Sector insight: clothing

Consumers have shown tremendous zeal for buying clothes over the last decade, despite the recession and the squeeze on their incomes. But they have been teased into the shops by falling prices. We think that a rebound in consumer services spending and the end of an era of falling clothing prices will prompt growth in real – and even nominal – clothing spending to ease.

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