There are many types of clothing. Due to the differences in basic forms, varieties, uses, production methods, and raw materials of clothing, various types of clothing also show different styles and characteristics, which are extremely varied and rich. Different classification methods lead to different names for clothing. At present, there are roughly the following classification methods.

(1) Classification by wearing combination

There are roughly the following classifications:

1. Clothing with upper and lower parts connected to the whole outfit, such as dresses, etc. Because the top and bottom are connected, the overall shape of the clothing is strong.

2. Suit 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 clothes, including coats, windbreakers, raincoats, cloaks, etc.

4. Vest is a sleeveless garment worn to the upper body, usually as short as between the waist and hips, and has a slightly close-fitting shape.

5. Skirts are clothing used to cover the lower body, including one-step skirts, A-line skirts, round skirts, culottes and other variations.

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 two coats: 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. .

(4) Classification of basic forms of clothing

According to the basic form and modeling structure of clothing, it can be classified into three types: body type, style type and mixed type.

1. Body-shaped clothing is clothing that conforms to the shape and structure of the human body and originated in cold zones. The general wearing form of this type of clothing is divided into two parts: tops and bottoms. Tops conform to the shape of the human body's bust, neck, and arms; bottoms conform to the shape of the waist, hips, and legs, and are mainly trousers and skirts. Cutting and sewing are more rigorous, paying attention to the outline shape and main effect of the clothing. For example, suits are mostly body type.

2. Style style style clothing is a style of clothing that covers the human body in a loose and stretched form. It originated in tropical areas. This kind of clothing is not restricted to the shape of the human body, but is more free and casual. The cutting and sewing techniques are mainly simple plane effects.

3. Hybrid hybrid structure clothing is a comprehensive and mixed form of cold zone body type and tropical style type. It has the characteristics of both. The tailoring adopts a simple plane structure, but is centered on the human body. The basic shape is rectangular, such as Chinese cheongsam, Japanese kimono, etc.

(5) Classification of wool knitted clothing

1. Classification according to raw material composition

(1) Pure wool (including wool blends): can be divided They are woolen sweaters, cashmere sweaters, camel hair sweaters, sheep wool (short wool) sweaters, rabbit wool blended sweaters, camel wool blended sweaters, yak wool 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 type: various types of wool woven from knitted velvet, fine wool, and thick wool spun using combing technology T-shirts, thick and thin fleece sweaters, etc.

(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, knot yarn, free yarn, and brushed yarn). This kind of sweater has a unique appearance, unique style and artistic sense.

3. Classification by knitting machine type

Sweater fabrics are generally weft knitted fabrics, and there are two types of 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. Classification according to the structure of gray cloth

Generally divided into single-sided, four-sided, fish scale, jacquard, pull pattern, cross-stitch, cable pattern and so on.

5. Classified by decorative pattern

It can be divided into printing, embroidery, appliqué, tie flower, bead flower, plate flower, brushed, fulling, leather inlay, relief, etc.

(6) Other categories of clothing

1. Classification by gender

There are men's clothing and women's clothing.

2. Classified 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. Classified by special functions

There are heat-resistant fire-fighting suits, high-temperature work suits, impermeable diving suits, flight suits worn at high altitudes, astronaut suits, and mountaineering suits worn in high mountains. Wait.

5. Classify clothing according to thickness and padding material

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.