A brief introduction to Apparel industry

1. Introduction to Apparel Industry
By Iresha Kuruppu
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2. Definition of Apparel
• The things that people wear to cover their bodies.
• Clothing & garment are similar words for “Apparel”.
• Not all body coverings are regarded as clothing.
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3. Apparel Product Categories
• Casual Wear
• Fashion Wear
• Intimate Wear
• Swim Wear
• Uniform and Workwear
• Children's Wear
• Sports Wear

4. Clothing Range
Clothing performs a range of,
• Individual
• Occupational
• Sexual differentiation
• Social status.

5. Why human use apparel?
• Climate condition
• Cultural needs
• Working condition
• Functional requirements
• Health condition .

6. History of Apparel
• No easy way to determine when clothing was first
developed. but the earliest clothing likely consisted
of fur, leather, leaves, or grass that were draped,
wrapped, or tied around the body.
• Stone age people use clothing to protects against
many things that might injure the uncovered
human body and to avoid the difficulties from rain,
snow, wind, Sunlight and other weather conditions

7. • The global apparel market is valued at 3 trillion
dollars, 3,000 billion, and accounts for 2 percent of
the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
– The women’s wear industry is valued at 621 billion dollars
– The men’s wear industry is valued at 402 billion dollars
– The retail value of the luxury goods market is 339.4 billion dollars
– Children’s wear had a global retail value of 186 billion dollars
– Sports footwear is valued at 90.4 billion dollars
– The bridal-wear industry is valued at 57 billion dollars
Some important figures on global
apparel industry

8. Some important figures on global
apparel industry
• The world clothing and textile industry (clothing, textiles, footwear
and luxury goods) reached almost $2,560 billions in 2010.
• The world children’s wear market is expected to reach
beyond $186 billion in 2014, marking a 15 percent increase in five
years.
• The world bridal wear market is expected to reach almost $57
billion by 2015.
• The world menswear industry should exceed $402 billion in 2014.
• The world women’s wear industry is expected to pass $621
billion in 2014.
• The world market for textiles made from organically grown cotton
was worth over $5 billion in 2010.

9. • In 2010, American households spent, on average, $1,700 on apparel,
footwear, and related products and services.
• Manhattanites spend the most on apparel at $362 per month.
• Shoppers in Tuscon, Arizona spend the least on apparel: $131 per
month.
• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge has spent more
than £35,000 $54,000on clothes since the beginning
of 2012.
• Consumers in the United Kingdom have an estimated
£30 billion ($46.7 billion) worth of unworn clothes
lingering in their closets.
Some important figures on global
apparel industry

10. • In 2010, China’s textile industry processed 41.3 million tons of fiber
and accounted for 52-54 percent of the world’s total production.
• Chinese textile industry creates about 3 billion tons of soot each year.
• Millions of tons of unused fabric at Chinese mills go to waste each
year when dyed the wrong color.
• A single mill in China can use 200 tons of water for each ton of fabric
it dyes; many rivers run with the colors of the season as the
untreated toxic dyes wash off from mills.
• In 2010, the textile industry ranked third for overall in Chinese
industry for wastewater discharge amount at 2.5 billion tons of
wastewater per year.
• The textile industry discharges about 300,600 tons of COD and
contributes to 8.2 percent of COD pollution in China.
– Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
Some important figures on global
apparel industry

11. Some statistics
http://www.srilankabusiness.com/apparel/apparel-export-performance.html

12. CMT ( Cut, Make and Trim)
• The companies listed in CMT are clothing factories.
CMT refers to Cut Make and Trim.
• These are factories that provide the complete
service of producing a garment from cutting the
fabric, sewing fabric, and attaching the trims such
as hangtags, buttons, labels etc.
• Some CMT factories may subcontract some of the
work, but typically they will manage the entire
production process.

13. Thank you