Kids Wear Industry

“Our agricultural products have been abundant for the last few years. The crops of cotton, four-fifths of which have been raised by the

increase production of cotton, resulting from the cotton gin was a primary factor in the

labor” (Foner, 393). Cotton not only became the most profitable crop for the Southern farmers,

This resulted in more cotton being traded, and more profit for the United States. Another positive affect was the growth of trade in the United

First, was the great demand of cotton generated by the rise of textile manufacturing in England. The invention of the cotton gin had a lasting effect on processing. The cotton gin cut the labor costs involved in cleaning short-sample cotton, thus making it an easily marketable commodity. The availability of good land in the Southwest also contributed to the rise of cotton. The opening of the rich and fertile plantation areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana resulted in a vast increase in total production.

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

With the news that the cotton gin could speed up production, Southern farmers soon began growing mostly cotton crops. Cotton turned into textile,

II. Over the past few years, fast fashion has been an extremely hot segment and source to help some clothing companies increasing on their economic growth.

The Industrial revolution increased the demand for raw cotton and opening of new lands in the West greatly extended the area available for cotton cultivation. Sugar

The last fifty years of cotton's story have involved fewer humans, astounding feats of agricultural research and engineering, and an amazing ability of farmers to band together and own the whole value chain of their crop production. Rivoli marvels that farmers have figured out how to market cotton seeds (they make great frying oil) and stems (feed for cattle), as well as forming collectives to pack, sort, grade, sell and market the cotton and other products. The combination of mechanization, American ingenuity, command of the value chain and agricultural

“The infant’s and children’s clothing retailing industry has achieved steady growth over the past five years, amid difficult retail conditions.” ("Market Research Reports & Analysis | Ibisworld AU”). With current value growth of 5%, the industry is stronger than the review period of CAGR of 4 %, and is the fastest growing category among the apparel industry, with girl’s clothing dominating 41% of sales, followed by boy’s clothing 39% and infant’s clothing

One of our concerns regarding the expansion of MMDC’s clothing line is the company’s inexperience within the clothing industry. NHDC will have to compete outside its current niche of dolls and accessories. The fickle nature of children’s fashion trends requires that the management keep up with current market trends, in order to maintain its premium pricing.

Children learn at a very early age what it means to be a boy or a girl in our society. As children grow and develop, the gender stereotypes they are exposed to at home are reinforced by many elements in their environment and are thus perpetuated throughout childhood followed by adolescence. One major societal issue uprising with the way children are raised in today’s society is the gender specific dressing for boys and girls. The history with gender specific dressing is a one sided masculine enforced point of view for centuries. As children move through childhood and into adolescence, they are exposed to many factors which influence their behaviors and attitudes regarding gender roles. It is difficult for a child in today’s society to grow to adulthood without experiencing some form of gender bias or stereotyping. The question lies whether the view of gender specific dressing shall change or stay the same. As society continues to evolve and grow so does the tolerance of new uprising views for the general purpose of equality and freedom to do as pleased. Children regularly learn to adopt gender roles which are not always fair to both sexes. These attitudes and behaviors are generally learned first in the home but then reinforced by their environment, school experience, and media viewing. Nonetheless, the strongest influence on gender role development seems to occur within the family setting. Culture, values, and beliefs are the parents early role for passing on, both overtly

Through clothing, toys, children are negatively influenced by the stereotypes that accompany them. In clothing stores around Canada, the apparel of young boy's and girl's is stereotypical. Seen immediately in clothing stores is the extreme contrast between the two sections. The girl's section is filled with an abundance of sparkles, sequins, flowers, and pink on all articles of clothing. The boy's section is the

The cost is kept low with labor and the production. This helps competing in the export trading world. “I am telling, in textile nobody can beat Bangladesh in price and quality”