Garment industry

Clothing industry, or garment industry, refers to the range of trade and industry sectors involved in the production and value chain of clothing and garments. This includes the textile industry, embellishment using embroidery, the fashion industry, apparel retailers, and trade in second-hand clothes and textile recycling. Textile factories are also called "mills".

Textiles factories or "mills" turn the natural or synthetic materials into Yarn which will be sent for weaving and knitting.
Then apparel textile mills make wearable pieces from those textile cloths.
The producing sectors build upon a wealth of clothing technology some of which, like the loom, the cotton gin, and the sewing machine heralded industrialization not only of the previous textile manufacturing practices.

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