They sell very good jeans cloth there at 35 or 40 cents a yard; they generally wear jeans.
Q.All seasons of the year?
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Generally in all seasons of the year.

In the summer time a laboring man hardly ever wears a coat at all.
Q.What do you think an average colored Southern laborer expends per annum for his clothing, say the head of the family, the man--what does it cost him for clothing a year?
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I cannot give you a definite answer.

I will only say that we who are the producers of cotton are very glad to see them get in a prosperous condition in order that there may be more consumption, and when a man is prosperous he will buy two suits of clothes, where if he is not prosperous he will make one do.
Q.We have had a good deal of testimony as to what it actually costs a Northern laborer a year for clothing.