New report provides detailed analysis of the Textiles and Clothing market
The corporatewear market can still be split into five segments. These are:
* workwear;
* careerwear;
* corporate casualwear;
* uniforms;
* protective clothing.
The dividing lines between them are becoming ever more blurred. It is no longer possible to be categorical about where workwear ends and protectivewear begins. To most people a standard boilersuit made of poly/cotton is workwear. But if the fabric is impregnated with chemical dyes which make it reflect light, and it therefore becomes a high visibility boilersuit, has it transformed into protectivewear?
The industry has suffered from becoming commoditised’, as a result of irrevocable and irreversible changes in the supply chain. Consequently the market has become fixated on price to its own detriment.