How To Classify Clothes?

　无论是开服装店还是制作服装，都要注意能够正确的区分和认识服装分类。下面说说服装如何分类。

     一、根据服装的基本形态分类

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. bodily form clothing is a garment that accords with the shape and structure of human body. It originated in the frigid zone.

Generally speaking, this type of clothing is divided into two parts: the upper part and the lower part.

The upper garment is compatible with the shape of the human body's chest, neck and arms. The lower garment is in the shape of waist, buttocks and legs, mainly in trousers and skirt.

The tailoring and sewing are more rigorous and pay attention to the contour modeling and main effect of clothing.

For example, Western-style clothes are mostly body shape.

The 2. style style clothing is a garment style that is originated from the tropics.

This kind of clothing is not free from human body shape. It is more free and optional. The tailoring and sewing process is mainly based on simple plane effect.

3. the mixed type hybrid clothing is a comprehensive and mixed form of frigid zone and tropical style. It has both characteristics. The tailoring is made of simple plane structure, but it takes human body as the center, and its basic form is rectangular, such as Chinese cheongsam, kimono and so on.

    二、根据服装的穿着组合、用途、面料、制作工艺分类

(1) classification by wearing combination

There are roughly the following categories:

1. the whole piece of clothing with two parts attached, such as a dress, etc., is connected with the lower garment, and the overall shape of the garment is strong.

2. there are two sets, three pieces and four pieces of clothing for the upper and lower garments.

3. the coat is worn on the outermost part of the garment, including coat, windbreaker, raincoat, cloak, etc.

4. a sleeveless garment with a waist top and half length, usually between waist and buttocks, with a slightly fitting shape.

5. skirts cover the lower part of the garment, one step skirt, A skirt, round table skirt, skirt skirt and so on.

6. trousers from the waist down to the buttocks are divided into trouser legs in the form of clothing, easy to wear.

There are trousers, shorts and trousers.

(two) classification by use

It is divided into two coats of underwear and coat.

Underwear is closely attached to the human body, and plays the role of body protection, warmth retention and plastic surgery.

It can also be divided into social wear, daily wear, professional wear, sportswear, indoor clothes, stage clothes, etc.

(three) classification according to garment fabric and process

Chinese clothing, western style clothing, embroidery clothing, woolen garments, silk garments, cotton clothing, fur clothing, knitted garments, down garments, etc.

     三、其他分类方式

In addition to the above classification, some clothes are classified according to their gender, age, nationality and special function.

(1) sex classification

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

(two) classification by age

There are baby clothes, children's wear and adult clothes.

(three) classification by nationality

There are Chinese national costume and foreign national costume, such as Han clothing, Tibetan clothing, Mexico clothing, Indian clothing and so on.

(four) classification by special function

There are heat-resistant firefighting clothes, high temperature work clothes, impervious diving suits, flying suits, spacesuit, mountaineering clothes and so on.

(five) classify clothing according to its thickness and material.

There are uniforms, clothing, cotton clothing, down garments, silk and cotton clothes.

(six) classification according to the washing effect of garments.

There are stone washing, rinsing, general washing, sand washing, enzyme washing, snowflake laundry and so on.

     四、根据针织服装的生产和加工特点分类  

(1) classification of wool knitted garments

1. classification by ingredients

(1) pure wool (including wool blend): it can be divided into woolen sweater, cashmere sweater, camel hair shirt, sheep wool (short hair) shirt, rabbit wool blended shirt, camel wool blended shirt, yak hair wool blended shirt and so on.

(2) blended fabric: it can be divided into wool / acrylic, rabbit / acrylic, Ma Haimao / acrylic, camel hair / acrylic, cashmere / nylon blends, cashmere / silk blended blouses and so on.

(3) purified fiber (including synthetic fiber blended): it can be divided into elastic nylon shirt, elastic polypropylene shirt, elastic polyester shirt, acrylic bulky shirt, acrylic / polyester, viscose / nylon blouses and so on.

(4) interwoven categories: wool acrylic fiber, rabbit hair acrylic fiber, wool cotton yarn interwoven sweater and so on.

2. classification by spinning process

(1) combing: sweaters made of combed craft, knitted flannel, fine wool yarn and coarse knitting yarn, and woolen sweaters.

(2) carding: all kinds of woolen sweaters, cashmere sweaters, rabbit sweaters, camel hair shirts, and Jersey sweaters knitted by carding process.

(3) colored sweater: sweater knitted with fancy knitted velvet (circular yarn, Yuko Sajiusa and napped yarn).

This kind of sweater has peculiar appearance.

The style is unique and artistic.

3. classification by knitting machine type

Sweater fabrics are generally weft knitted fabrics, with two kinds of circular knitting products and flat knitting products.

(1) round machine products: sweaters made of circular knitting machines woven into cylindrical grey cloth before cutting and processing seams.

(2) flat knitting machine: it is a sweater made of hand knitted flat knitting machine and then processed and stitched.

It can also be referred to as computerized pverse woven fabric and knitted sweater made of tailoring seams.

4. classification of fabric according to grey structure

Generally, it can be divided into one side, four sides, fish scales, jacquard, flower pulling, cross stitching, flower twisting and so on.

5. classification according to modified flower pattern

It can be divided into printing, embroidery, applique, Zha Hua, Zhu Hua, plate flower, nap, knit, leather, relief, etc.

(1) printed sweater: prints the pattern on the sweater with printing process to achieve the purpose of improving the beautification effect. It is a new variety in sweater.

The printing pattern is full of printing, printing and printing. It has beautiful appearance, strong artistic appeal and good decoration.

(2) embroidered sweater: embroidering all kinds of flower patterns on a sweater by manual or mechanical means.

The flower pattern is delicate, delicate and colorful, with many blouses and children's clothing.

It has unique embroidered sweaters, plain embroidered sweaters, embroidered sweaters, embroidered sweaters, silk embroidered sweaters, embroidered sweaters with gold and silver thread.

(3) sweater sweater: the woolen sweater that has been knitted is treated with a napping process, so that the surface of the fabric is pulled out with a uniform layer of fluff.

The sweater is fluffy and soft. It is light and warm.

(4) woolen sweater: also called woolen sweater and woolen sweater, it usually needs to be treated by fulling.

After knit, the sweater is compact, soft and plump, and has a thick and delicate surface. It is comfortable and warm.

(5) relief cardigan: it is a new artistic variety in sweater. It prints the water-soluble shrink proof resin on woolen sweater, and then the whole sweater is processed. There is no shrinkage phenomenon in the pattern of the shrink proof agent. The surface of the fabric shows an embossed pattern of velvet and non shrinking velvet, and then embellishment with printing, which makes the flower pattern have a strong sense of three-dimensional, beautiful and elegant pattern, giving people a fresh and striking feeling.

(two) classification of cotton knitted garments

1. knitted fabrics are classified into warp knitted and weft knitted fabrics in two categories according to their production methods.

2. according to the fabric's structure, the basic structure of warp knitted fabric is composed of flat tissue, satin weave and warp knitted fabric.

But in actual production, it is commonly used for double or multi comb warp knitted fabrics as outer garments or shirts.

The double comb warp knitted fabric is widely used in velveteen weave, flat oblique fabric and diagonal chain structure.

The basic structure of weft knitted fabric is mainly weft stitch (commonly known as "Jersey"), rib fabric (commonly known as "elastic cloth"), double rib Organization (also called Double frontal organization), double reverse Organization (also called "Pearl weaving").

There are also cushion structure, ring structure, Terry tissue, pineapple tissue, leno tissue, corrugated tissue, plush tissue, lining weft weave and other color tissues and composite tissues.

    了解了服装的各种分类方法以及不同服装的性能特点后，就可以使我们明确有关服装的设计目的与要求，正确选择面料、辅料，采取合理的方法进行加工制作，按照规定的程序检验各类服装， 最终制成令客户满意的服装。