This Day, That Year

Item from June 28,1984, in China Daily: As more and more consumers demand better clothes, complaints about insufficient tailoring services are mounting in Beijing. ... Customers must wait 70 to 140 days to have a suit made, if they are lucky enough to get the order taken. People in China are no longer worried about their clothing as the country has become the world's largest producer of clothes.

Government statistics show that in 2014, China produced 29.9 billion pieces of clothes. In the first 10 months of last year, it produced 24.9 billion pieces.

People can buy ready-to-wear clothes in any of the shopping centers.