Profitable Business

Jiang Rang was wearing a light green dress, her main purpose being to use herself as an advertisement for today's clothes.

Soon, four or five young girls gathered around to look at the dresses. In this era, food was scarce and most jobs required physical labor, so the girls all had slender, pretty figures. Because of this, when selecting clothes, Jiang Rang had imported small sizes, which most people could fit into.

As the girls were choosing and admiring the clothes, Jiang Rang offered some styling advice, "This top goes well with that skirt. You'll look beautiful in it, guaranteed." Turning left and right, she suggested, "This light pink cherry blossom print dress has a modern style, which matches your hairstyle today perfectly."

The young girls were quickly swayed. The styles of the clothes here were very novel, none of which could be found in the department store. Everyone assumed they must have been shipped over from Yangcheng.

After looking them over, the young girls asked about the prices. Jiang Rang wanted to sell the clothes quickly, so she only added five yuan to the wholesale price of each item. "The one-piece dress is 25 yuan. If you buy the separate top and skirt as a set, it's 38 yuan." The prices set by Jiang Rang did not differ much from those in the department store, but her clothes won on style. The designs were naturally much more beautiful than those in the department store.

Girls naturally loved beauty, so it didn't take long for the clothes to be completely sold out, leaving only the dress she was wearing.

After selling all the clothes, Jiang Rang counted the paper money in her hands. Eight one-piece dresses sold for two hundred yuan, and five separate sets sold for one hundred and ninety yuan. Jiang Rang had spent three hundred and ten yuan to buy the clothes, and on this side, she had brought back three hundred and ninety yuan. Thus, the profit margin was eighty yuan.

Moreover, three hundred and ninety yuan in this era was worth much more than it would be twenty years later.