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Consumer Price Index, CPI-U (CUSR0000SEAC) · Women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted

What is the consumer price index for women's apparel?

The consumer price index for women's apparel was 112.9 in the month ended , up 2.1% from a year earlier.

Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, each month

January 1978 to September 2026Seasonally adjusted, as published

Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, each month (January 1978 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, each month (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours)

January 1978 to September 2026Ours, from the published values

Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (January 1978 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2016 to September 2026), recessions shaded
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, change from a year earlier, each month (ours) (September 2024 to September 2026)

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to , to , to , to , to , to .

Shaded bands are US recessions as the National Bureau of Economic Research dates them: to .

Each point is one month of the series as the source publishes it, or a change worked out from those values (ours). The US recessions are shaded. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.

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The newest month beside the one before it and the nearest ones a year, five and ten years earlier. The last ten years are in the table under "The numbers behind the chart".

MeasureLatestThe month beforeA year earlierFive years earlierTen years earlier
Month
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average112.9113.7110.5100.1114.1
Change over a year+2.1%+3.1%−2.1%+0.7%−0.4%

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Observed .

Right now

The consumer price index for women's apparel was 112.9 in September 2026, the lowest since January 2026.

Over a year it is up 2.1% (ours).

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ChangeOurs

PeriodThenChange
One month113.7 in −0.7%
Three months114.6 in −1.5%
Twelve months110.5 in +2.1%
Five years100.1 in +12.7%
Ten years114.1 in −1.1%

In historyOurs

The consumer price index for women's apparel of 112.9 in was higher than in 286 of the 583 other months since , the same in 0 and lower in 297.

Highest since : 134.5 in . Lowest since : 89.5 in .

AverageOurs

Average since : 112.95 (ours, a plain mean of the 584 months).

ComparedOurs

Over a year the consumer price index for women's apparel is up 2.1%, which ranks 9 of the 10 rows of the table, where 1 is the largest change.

The table sets the consumer price index for women's apparel beside the apparel items on the apparel inflation page, by the change over a year in each one's newest month.

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Understanding the consumer price index for women's apparel

Where it stands today

The consumer price index for women's apparel was 112.9 in September 2026.

What does the consumer price index for women's apparel measure?

This is the consumer price index for women's apparel: one of the series of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes it each month, about two weeks after the month ends, and scales it so that the 1982-84 average is 100. It is seasonally adjusted: BLS removes the regular swings of the calendar year, so that one month can be set beside the next.

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What 500metrics adds: the change over one month, three months, a year and five years, the highest and lowest value since the series begins, how the change over a year ranks among the apparel items on the apparel inflation page, and the history in one chart and one file.

The numbers behind the chart

What was the consumer price index for women's apparel in each month?The last ten years, 119 months, newest first; the chart and the file have every month since Jan 1978
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, by month, newest first (Index, 1982-84 = 100; the change ours)
MonthValueChange over a year
112.9+2.1%
113.7+3.1%
113.6+2.9%
114.6+3.5%
114.6+3.9%
115.3+4.2%
115.3+4.5%
113.1+3.2%
110.7+1.2%
110.0−0.7%
109.7−0.8%
110.5−2.1%
110.2−1.6%
110.4−0.7%
110.7−0.7%
110.2−1.0%
110.6−1.2%
110.3−0.1%
109.6−0.1%
109.3−0.8%
110.8+0.3%
110.6+0.6%
110.8+0.2%
112.8+2.7%
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MonthValueChange over a year
112.1+1.0%
111.2+0.5%
111.4+0.6%
111.4+0.6%
112.0+1.5%
110.4−0.1%
109.7−0.6%
110.2+0.8%
110.4+1.5%
110.0+0.6%
110.6+1.8%
109.9+2.2%
111.0+3.7%
110.6+3.4%
110.7+4.0%
110.7+4.1%
110.3+3.9%
110.5+3.7%
110.3+4.0%
109.4+3.7%
108.7+3.9%
109.3+6.0%
108.6+6.4%
107.5+7.3%
107.0+5.2%
107.0+4.3%
106.5+3.2%
106.3+4.9%
106.1+5.4%
106.5+6.5%
106.1+6.1%
105.4+5.6%
104.7+5.7%
103.2+4.4%
102.1+2.6%
100.1+0.7%
101.7+3.3%
102.6+4.2%
103.2+5.5%
101.4+4.5%
100.6+0.1%
100.0−5.3%
100.0−6.4%
99.9−5.8%
99.0−7.7%
98.9−8.3%
99.4−6.5%
99.5−9.0%
98.5−10.8%
98.4−10.7%
97.7−11.0%
97.0−11.9%
100.5−9.0%
105.6−3.4%
106.8−2.3%
106.0−4.5%
107.3−3.1%
107.8−3.5%
106.3−5.0%
109.3−3.2%
110.3−0.5%
110.2−2.6%
109.9−4.6%
110.2−5.6%
110.4−4.5%
109.4−4.6%
109.3−5.3%
111.0−2.5%
110.7−0.6%
111.7−1.5%
111.9−2.3%
112.9−0.9%
110.8−3.0%
113.1−1.4%
115.2+1.0%
116.7+2.3%
115.6+0.2%
114.6−1.2%
115.4+0.5%
113.9−0.8%
111.4−3.0%
113.4−2.2%
114.5−0.4%
113.9−0.2%
114.3+0.4%
114.7−0.8%
114.0−1.6%
114.1−0.9%
115.3+0.7%
116.1+1.1%
114.9+1.6%
114.8+2.2%
114.8+0.6%
115.9+1.5%
115.0+0.7%
How does it compare with the apparel items on the apparel inflation page?Ranked by the change over a year
Consumer price index for women's apparel, U.S. city average beside the apparel items on the apparel inflation page, newest month of each, by the change over a year (ours); equal changes share a rank
SeriesMonthValueChange over a yearRank
Jewelry and watches229.3+10.8%1
Boys' apparel126.6+7.8%2
Men's and boys' apparel135.4+3.8%3
Girls' apparel107.6+3.6%4
Apparel less footwear128.3+3.4%5
Footwear152.4+3.4%5
Men's apparel137.1+2.8%7
Women's and girls' apparel111.8+2.4%8
Women's apparel112.9+2.1%9
Infants' and toddlers' apparel123.4−1.3%10

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What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite

What this number cannot tell you

  • The index measures the change of prices, not the prices themselves and not the dollars spent. Prices at a value of 150 are 50% above the 1982-84 average. The index of one item says nothing about how high its prices are compared with those of another item.
  • The values are seasonally adjusted, and BLS revises the adjusted values of the last five years each February, so a past value on this page can change. The change over 12 months that BLS headlines is worked out from values that are not seasonally adjusted, and can differ from the change on this page.
  • BLS did not collect prices for October 2025 because of the lapse in appropriations. Where BLS publishes no value for that month, the page has none and the chart shows a gap.
  • The index is shown to one decimal, but the changes, the ranks and the highest and lowest values are ours, worked out from the values BLS publishes, which have three. A change is in percent, and can differ by 0.1 from one worked out from the values as shown.

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How to cite this

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, Women's apparel, U.S. city average, seasonally adjusted, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What is the consumer price index for women's apparel?", https://500metrics.com/apparel-inflation/womens-apparel.

Can the data be downloaded?apparel-inflation-womens-apparel.csv

Download the full history as CSV: 584 rows, to , 11,148 bytes.

Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0.

Recession dates from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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