Apparel
Clothing and footwear, single-SKU representative: Levi's 501 STF MSRP (2000+, Wayback-anchored). No CPI fallback.
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.
| Precedence | Source | Series ID | Cadence | Geography |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Archetype | Weight | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 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.