Covering is the essential necessity of mankind. With existence of the mankind, the need for covering has also emerged. Covering has become a necessity for people to weather opposition with cover their private body parts. The covering, from the existence of the human being to today, has been made big change and improved.
In the first age, people were used skin of animals, tree bark and durable grasses to cover their body. Later on, without discrimination gender, similar coverings such as sheet has been arisen. As time progress, that became two-armed dress-gown interchanges, for many years, women and men had been wearing dress-gown. Large cut galligaskins types had been worn and took place of today’s name pantyhose and trouser.
As time went on, the types of galligaskins and pants began to emerge. Jacket, overcoat and coat as upper garment took places of cloak and cowl. We see that, as time progress, clothing has brought diversity in terms of shape and use according to the needs of mankind.
In our world, there are very different climates among the continents so depending on climatic conditions and seasons, the type of the clothing vary. As time progressed, clothing styles were also decisive, depending on the sex.
Some of the clothing types are decisive according to the continents and countries. There are types of clothes that symbolize religious, national, entertainment, home, local, occupational, underwear and normal clothing. Once the essential needs come to the saturation point, after the saturation point, the luxury of the product appears in each sector, no matter what product it is.
While we rank all sectors in the world, the textile and apparel sector is come out on the fourth rank.
- Agriculture and livestock
- Health
- Sheltering
- Textile and apparel
And we see that we are at 4th rank among thousands of sectors.
In the world and in our country, over the time, except for essential necessities the trend of fashion in textiles and ready-to-wear has slowly begun (in developed countries).
With the beginning of the fashion trend, this trend is braked by the 1st and 2nd World Wars in developed countries. Because of these wars, a large part of developed countries have experienced material and spiritual difficulties.
After World War 2, the trend of fashion in developed countries rapidly advanced again. In a real sense, in our country, the fashion trend has began slowly after the 1960’s. Due to the customs barriers in our country imports were not able to be made. We had to consume that we had produced in our country. Due to the customs barriers, we could not produce goods at international level (quality as well) and our price were higher than world price. Supply was low,demand was high. After 1984, we have started to produce goods in international quality and price gradually with the customs barriers were removed, therefore, we have been accelerated foreign trade, that is, exports. After this date, our country has begun to export t-shirts (top group), non-denim and denim in serious amount. And it came to such a state that, among all other sector textile and ready-made garment never lost the leading position against to any other sector. Years later, ready-made garments and textile announced separately. Because of this situation, automotive exports got leading position even automotive sector is dependent around 65-70% on imports. When we take this into consideration, textile and ready-made garment sector is still in the leading position. I am ranking the factors that make the ready-made garment and textile industry so successful:
- In the ready-made garment sector capital is not but labor is intense
- Our country has a young population
- Having a culture based on master-apprenticeship
- Having girl vocational high schools in our country for many years
- The fact that our Armenian and Syriac citizens are having at the highest level of knowledge and skills in this sector and therefore transferring master-apprentice relations like the educational institution to the next generation
- Sümerbank has been tremendous serviced in raising qualified personnel both in textile and ready-made garment sectors
- Our geographical position (we are close to Europe)
- We are a skilful and creative nation
- We are a cotton growing country
For the reasons above, we have succeeded in ready-made garment and textile. We can be easily at the top 4 or 5 in the world rank in future. Both in the world and in our country, the future of ready-made garments and textiles are very bright.
The ready-wear garment is a greatly insatiable industry. It is just like the food industry! Its insatiability comes from the fashion trend: People work and live to be happy,happy people become productive so they are succeed. We see that, the clothes that we enjoy are poking our happiness hormone! As long as we are poked , we are productive and successful. The success of individuals makes the country successful.
At the present day, ready-made garment sector frets previous product with new product (with fashion). Wardrobes are brim over as full as possible. Even in the middle-class, the second wardrobe is formed. We are faced with crazy insatiable and wildly consumption. This consumption also arouse the country’s economy, and thus the world economy, positively. The rule of the economy is already based on (production and consumption) the cycle of consumption.
Istanbul 2018
VEYSİ BALİN