Clothing classification is difficult to find standards, the most controversial classification is by gender, can be divided into three categories: men's, women's, children's wear, neutral clothing. In the clothing industry, people in the industry usually do not divide into such categories, but into: knitting and woven.
Knitted clothing production speed is fast, the difficulty is lower than woven, so the price will be cheaper. Although China is rich in human resources, human resources account for an important proportion of clothing production costs.
Usually knitted clothing a worker plus a machine, skilled workers can produce hundreds of pieces a day, of course, depending on the complexity of the clothing.
In addition, another important factor determining the cost of clothing is the accessories on the clothing, accessories will increase the cost, and more importantly, at the same time need to pay labor costs. Accessories are usually assembled by hand, which not only takes a long time to produce, but also increases the number of unqualified products.
There are many kinds of clothing. Due to the different basic forms, varieties, uses, production methods and raw materials of clothing, all kinds of clothing also show different styles and characteristics, which are ever-changing and very rich. Different classification methods lead to different appellations for clothing. There are roughly the following categories.
First, according to the basic form of clothing classification
According to the basic form and shape structure of clothing, it can be classified into three types: shape type, style type and mixed type.
1. Body type
Body-shaped clothing is clothing that conforms to the shape and structure of the human body, which originated in the cold zone. The general wearing form of this kind of clothing is divided into two parts: top and bottom. The coat ADAPTS to the shape of human chest circumference, neck and arm; The bottom suit is in line with the shape of the waist, hips and legs, with pants and skirts mainly. Cutting, sewing is more rigorous, pay attention to the outline of the clothing and the main effect. For example, suits are mostly body types.
2. Style type
Style clothing is a loose, stretch form of clothing covering the human body, originated in the tropical region of a clothing style. This kind of clothing is not restricted to the shape of the human body, more free and casual, cutting and sewing process to simple flat effect.
3. Mixed type
Mixed structure of clothing is a cold body type and tropical style of the comprehensive, mixed form, both the characteristics of the two, cut using a simple plane structure, but the human body as the center, the basic form is rectangular, such as Chinese cheongsam, Japanese kimono and so on.
Second, according to the clothing wearing combination, use, fabric, production process classification
1. Sort by outfit
There are roughly the following categories:
1. The whole piece of clothing connected to the upper and lower parts, such as onesies, dresses, etc. because the top and the bottom are connected, the overall shape of the clothing is strong.
2. Suit coat and bottom separate clothing form, there are two sets, three sets, four sets.
3. A coat is worn on the outermost layer of clothing, including a coat, trench coat, raincoat, cape, and so on.
4. A sleeveless garment worn to the upper body, usually short between the waist and hips, with a slightly close-fitting look.
5. Skirts cover the lower body of the clothing, there are one-step skirts, A-line skirts, round skirts, culottes and other changes more.
6. Pants from the waist down to the buttocks after the trouser leg is divided into a form of clothing, easy to wear action. There are trousers, shorts and trousers.
2. Categorize by use
Divided into underwear and outerwear two categories. The underwear is close to the human body, which plays the role of protecting the body, keeping warm and shaping; Outerwear is due to different places of wear, different uses, varieties of many categories. It can be divided into: social wear, daily wear, professional wear, sports wear, indoor wear, stage wear, etc.
3. Classified by clothing fabric and production process
Chinese clothing, Western clothing, embroidery clothing, woolen clothing, noisy rice, silk clothing cotton clothing, fur clothing, knitted clothing, down clothing, etc.
Iii. Classification by HS code
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), It is a multi-purpose international commodity classification catalogue based on the CCCN and the United Nations Standard Classification of International Trade (SITC), and takes into account other major international harmonized classification systems of tariff, statistics and transportation. HS code, the six-bit code to indicate its classification code, the first two codes represent the chapter, the third and four codes for the product in the chapter of the position (according to the processing hierarchy order), the first to fourth code for the section (Heading), followed by the fifth and six code called Subheading, the first six code countries are consistent. The seventh digit is followed by the number of codes established by each country according to its own needs. Clothing belongs to Category 11 of the HS classification system and Chapters 61 and 62, Chapter 61 refers to knitted or crocheted articles with a total of 120 numbers from 6101.1000-6101.9000, and Chapter 62 refers to garments and clothing accessories that are not knitted or crocheted. It is suitable for any textile product except the flocculant. Numbering from 6201.1100-6217.9000, a total of 155 codes, are classified according to the style, gender, age, raw materials, such as cotton men's down coat HS code is: 6201.1210, cotton women's down coat HS code is 6202.1210. There are specific requirements for the gender of clothing in the HS code classification, that is, the gender is divided into men, boys, women, girls, infants; The left front flap above the right front flap belongs to men, and the opposite belongs to women, and neutral clothing belongs to women. The order of needle, woven garments and clothing accessories is from coat to underwear according to the product characteristics, and the needle and woven are corresponding to each other, and then other products. For example, 6203.1100 is a men's suit made of wool or fine animal hair (for outerwear), 6207.1100 is a man's underwear made of cotton (for underwear, the code is later), and 6104.3100 is a woman's blouse knitted or crocheted by wool or fine animal hair, and the corresponding 6204.3100 is a woman's blouse made of wool or fine animal hair.