Synonyms include "clothes" and "clothes". In ancient China, it was called "upper garment and lower garment". In addition to coverings for the torso and limbs, clothing in the broadest sense also includes coverings for the hands (gloves), feet (shoes, sandals, boots) and head (hats).
According to the basic form and modeling structure of clothing, it can be classified into three types: body type, style type and mixed type.
2. Classification according to the wearing combination, use, fabric and production process of clothing
(1) Classification according to the wearing combination
There are roughly the following classifications:
1． The whole outfit is a garment with upper and lower parts connected, such as a dress, because the top and bottom are connected, so the overall shape of the garment is strong.
2. Suit is a form of clothing with separate tops and bottoms, including two-piece sets, three-piece sets, and four-piece sets.
3． Jackets are worn as the outermost layer of clothing, including coats, windbreakers, raincoats, cloaks, etc.
4. Vest is a sleeveless garment worn to the upper body, usually short to between the waist and hips, and has a slightly close-fitting shape.
5. Skirt is a garment used to cover the lower body. There are many variations, such as one-step skirt, A-line skirt, round skirt, and culottes.
6. The trousers are divided into trouser legs from the waist down to the buttocks, making it easy to move around. There are long pants, shorts, and midi pants.
(2) Classification by use
Divided into underwear and outerwear. Underwear is close to the human body and plays the role of protecting the body, keeping warm, and shaping the body. Outerwear has different uses and many varieties depending on the place where it is worn. It can also be divided into: social wear, daily wear, professional wear, sportswear, indoor wear, stage wear, etc.
(3) Classification by clothing fabrics and craftsmanship
Chinese clothing, Western clothing, embroidered clothing, woolen clothing, silk clothing, cotton clothing, fur clothing, knitted clothing, down clothing, etc. .
3. Other classification methods
In addition to some of the above classification methods, there are also clothes that are classified according to gender, age, ethnicity, special functions, etc.
(1) Classification by gender
There are men’s clothing and women’s clothing.
(2) Classification by age
There are baby clothes, children's clothes, and adult clothes.
(3) Classification by ethnicity
There are Chinese national costumes and foreign national costumes, such as Han costumes, Tibetan costumes, Mexican costumes, Indian costumes, etc.
(4) Classification according to special functions
There are heat-resistant fire-fighting suits, high-temperature work suits, impermeable diving suits, high-altitude flight suits, space suits, and mountain suits. Mountaineering clothing, etc.
(5) Classify clothing according to thickness and padding materials
There are single clothes, jackets, cotton clothes, down jackets, silk cotton clothes, etc.
(6) Classification according to the washing effect of clothing
There are stone washing, rinsing, general washing, sand washing, enzyme washing, snowflake washing, etc.
4. Classification by HS Code
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System) is referred to as the Harmonized System (HS). It is in the "Customs Cooperation Council Classification Catalog" (CCCN) ) and the United Nations' Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), a multi-purpose international commodity classification catalog with reference to other major international tax, statistical, transportation and other classification harmonization systems. HS code uses a six-digit code to represent its classification code. The first two digits represent the chapter. The third and fourth digits represent the position of each product in the chapter (arranged in order of processing level). The first to fourth digits represent the code. is Heading, and the following fifth and sixth digit codes are called Subheading. The first six digit codes are consistent in all countries. After the seventh digit, each country develops the number of codes according to its own needs. Clothing belongs to Category 11 and Chapters 61 and 62 of the HS classification system. Chapter 61 is knitted or crocheted products, numbered from 6101.1000-6101.9000***120, and Chapter 62 is non-knitted or non-knitted products. Crocheted clothing and accessories. Applicable to any textile products except batting. The numbers range from 6201.1100-6217.9000, with a maximum of 155 codes, which are classified according to different styles, genders, ages, and raw materials. For example, the HS number of cotton men's down coats is: 6201.1210, cotton The HS code for women's down coats is 6202.1210. There are specific requirements for the gender of clothing in the clothing HS code classification, that is, the gender is divided into men's, boys, women's, girls, and infants; the left placket above the right placket belongs to men, and vice versa belongs to women. Neutral clothing belongs to Female category. Knitted and woven garments and clothing accessories are sequenced from outerwear to underwear according to product characteristics. Knitted and woven garments correspond to each other, and then other products. For example, 6203.1100 is men's suits made of wool or fine animal hair (outerwear), 6207.1100 is men's underwear made of cotton (underwear, coded at the end), and for example: 6104.3100 is knitted or made of wool or fine animal hair. Crocheted women's tops, corresponding to 6204.3100, women's tops made of wool or fine animal hair.
5. Classification according to the production and processing characteristics of knitted clothing
(1) Classification of wool knitted clothing
1. Classification by raw material ingredients
(1) Pure wool (including wool blends): can be divided into wool sweaters, cashmere sweaters, camel hair sweaters, sheep wool (short hair) sweaters, and rabbit wool Blended sweaters, camel wool blended sweaters, yak wool blended sweaters, etc.
(2) Blended categories: can be divided into wool/acrylic, rabbit/acrylic, mohair/acrylic, camel hair/acrylic, cashmere/nylon blended sweaters, cashmere/silk blended sweaters, etc.
(3) Pure fiber types (including chemical fiber blended types): can be divided into elastic nylon shirts, elastic polypropylene shirts, elastic polyester shirts, acrylic expanded shirts, acrylic/polyester, viscose/nylon blended shirts wait.
(4) Interwoven type: can be divided into wool acrylic, rabbit hair acrylic, wool and cotton yarn interwoven shirts, etc.
2． Classification by spinning technology
(1) Combed category: knitted velvet, fine velvet, thick velvet, various woolen sweaters, thick and thin velvet sweaters, etc. spun by combing process.
(2) Carded type: various sheep sweaters, cashmere sweaters, rabbit sweaters, camel hair sweaters, shenandoah sweaters, etc. made of knitted yarns spun by carding technology .
(3) Colored yarn sweaters: Colored sweaters woven with colored knitted velvet (loop yarn, knotted yarn, free yarn, and brushed yarn). This kind of sweater has a unique appearance, unique style and artistic sense.
3． Classification by type of knitting machine
Sweater fabrics are generally weft knitted fabrics, and there are two types: circular knitting products and flat knitting products.
(1) Circular knitting products: refer to sweaters that are first knitted into cylindrical gray fabric using a circular knitting machine and then cut and sewn.
(2) Flat knitting products: refers to sweaters made by knitting the garment blanks with a hand-operated flat knitting machine and then processing and sewing them. It can also refer to the computerized flat knitting machine knitting gray cloth, which is then cut and sewn into sweaters.
4. According to the classification of gray fabric structure
It is generally divided into single-sided, Siping, fish scale, jacquard, pull pattern, cross-stitch, cable pattern and so on.
5． According to the classification of decorative patterns
it can be divided into printing, embroidery, appliqué, tie flower, bead flower, plate flower, brushed, fulling, leather inlay, relief, etc.
(1) Printed sweaters: Printing technology is used to print patterns on sweaters to improve the beautification effect. It is a new variety of sweaters. The printing patterns include full body printing, front body printing, partial printing, etc., with beautiful appearance, strong artistic appeal and good decoration.
(2) Embroidered sweaters: Various patterns are embroidered on sweaters manually or mechanically. The patterns are delicate, delicate and colorful, mostly for blouses and children's clothing. There are natural color embroidered sweaters, plain embroidered sweaters, colorful embroidered sweaters, velvet embroidered sweaters, silk embroidered sweaters, gold and silver thread embroidered sweaters, etc.
(3) Brushed sweater: The woven sweater garments are subjected to a napping process to pull out a layer of uniform and dense fluff on the surface of the fabric. The brushed sweater feels fluffy and soft, lightweight and warm to wear.
(4) Milled sweaters: Also known as milled sweaters and woolen sweaters, they generally require milling treatment. After milling, the sweater has a tight and thick texture, a soft and plump feel, and dense and fine fluff on the surface, making it comfortable and warm to wear.
(5) Embossed sweater: It is a new type of sweater with strong artistic quality. It prints patterns on the sweater with water-soluble anti-shrinking resin, and then shrinks the whole sweater. After treatment, the pattern printed with anti-shrinkage agent will not produce shrinkage phenomenon, and the surface of the fabric will show a relief-like pattern with shrinkage and non-shrinkage concave and convex, and then the relief will be embellished with printing to make the pattern have a strong three-dimensional sense. The flower shape is beautiful and elegant, giving people a novel and eye-catching feeling.
(2) Classification of cotton knitted clothing
1. Classification according to the production method of the fabric Knitted clothing fabrics are divided into two categories: warp knitting and weft knitting according to the production method.
2． Classification according to the organizational structure of the fabric. The basic structures of single-comb warp knitting of warp knitted fabrics include warp plain weave, warp satin weave, warp velvet weave, etc. However, in actual production, double-comb or multi-comb warp knitting is generally used as outerwear or shirts. The most widely used double-comb warp knitted fabrics are warp velvet weave, warp plain twill weave and warp twill chain weave. The basic structures of weft knitted fabrics mainly include weft plain needle tissue (commonly known as "jersey cloth"), rib tissue (commonly known as "elastic fabric"), double rib tissue (also known as double front tissue, commonly known as "cotton wool cloth"), double rib tissue. Reverse tissue (also known as "pearl braid"), etc. There are also padded weaves, tuck weaves, terry weaves, pineapple weaves, leno weaves, corrugated weaves, plush weaves, warp and weft lining weaves and other patterned weaves as well as composite weaves.