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The Fixed Basket · Stratum apparel

Apparel

Clothing and footwear, single-SKU representative: Levi's 501 STF MSRP (2000+, Wayback-anchored). No CPI fallback.

Weight (National Average)
6.95%
Sources
4
precedence-ordered ladder
Archetypes published
10
Basket version
v1.0.14

Sources

Precedence ladder for apparel. Lower precedence wins where multiple sources cover the same period. The engine walks the ladder per period with chain-link rescale at source transitions.

PrecedenceSourceSeries IDCadenceGeography
0 levis_501
Levi's 501 Original Fit (pre-shrunk) MSRP — JCPenney catalog anchors 2000/2005 + levi.com/Wayback (wash 00501-0134 pinned). Replaces the STF series at v1.0.14.
levis_501_original_fit_msrp_us national
0 converse_chuck
Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Core Ox (black) list — JCPenney catalog 2000/2005 + Zappos/Wayback 2011-2022.
converse_chuck_taylor_coreox_msrp_us national
0 dr_martens_1460
Dr. Martens 1460 (black smooth) list — Zappos/Wayback 2016-2024, chain-link entry at 2016.
dr_martens_1460_msrp_us national
0 dickies_874
Dickies Original 874 work pant list — dickies.com/Wayback SFCC standard price 2016-2022, chain-link entry at 2016.
dickies_874_list_us national

Weight across archetypes

How apparel is weighted in each of the 10 published archetypes. Sorted by weight, highest first. National Average is the headline citation surface.

ArchetypeWeightAction
Income — Highest Quintile 9.3418% View archetype →
Working Parent 8.1207% View archetype →
Income — Fourth Quintile 7.4320% View archetype →
Homeowner 7.1499% View archetype →
National Average 6.9491% View archetype →
Renter 6.4739% View archetype →
Income — Middle Quintile 6.3643% View archetype →
Income — Second Quintile 6.0643% View archetype →
Income — Lowest Quintile 5.1506% View archetype →
Retiree 5.1151% View archetype →

Substitution history

Substitution log entries that touched this stratum. Each entry bumps the basket version and is reproducible from observations tagged with their basket_version.

No substitution log entries reference this stratum directly.

Methodology

See the basket page for all 20 strata and the per-stratum source map. The methodology page covers the load-bearing pillars including the rules around source-precedence ladders, chain-link splicing at source transitions, and the no-fabricated-data invariant.