Suits are imported products from Western countries. In the past, Chinese people did not wear suits. Since the reform and opening up, people's ideas have gradually changed, and they have begun to accept suits and wear some trendy things.

Li Zhongxin vaguely remembers that it seemed that Zhang Mingmin started the trend of wearing suits after singing in a suit during the 1984 Spring Festival Gala, and more and more people wore suits.

It was from this time on that people saw that high-level people in Hong Kong were wearing suits and ties. They seemed to have such an indescribable style. It was for this reason that people wearing suits and ties

Gradually becoming a fashion.

The Chinese, who are eager to integrate with the international market, seem to take the initiative to accept this familiar yet fresh clothing culture with a challenging mentality.

The clothing of this era was about "stiff and heavy". Due to the influence of the social environment, people's thoughts were still relatively conservative and they just started to try some new things.

The main themes of suits are looseness, stretch, and convenience. The lapels of suits are relatively high, the lapels are very wide, the shoulder slope is relatively small, but the shoulder pads are small, and the colors are monotonous, with black, gray, blue and other non-colors popular.

People yearn for the luxurious life of the upper class and the big-shot style overseas, and gradually begin to pursue famous brands in suits, paying attention to high-quality fabrics, elegant shapes and exquisite workmanship.

But! In the 1980s, suits were not easy to make. Almost all suits were made by hand in tailoring shops.

Use a measuring tape to measure the person's height and various parts of the body. After recording all the data in a notebook, the measurement will be customized according to the shape of the body.

Li Zhongxin remembers very clearly that his father Li Shangyong’s work unit had a younger brother named Aunt Xue, who was a fashion designer and opened a clothing tailoring school in Jiangcheng in the late 1980s, which became extremely popular.

At that time, there was a clothing school, and countless students signed up to study. Young men and women went to his clothing tailoring school to learn the skills of making clothes. They wanted to become a fashion designer. No, it should be said to learn the skills of clothing cutting.

After learning the skills of clothing cutting, you can make clothing at home. If your neighbors want to make a suit or two pairs of pants, you have to ask them to do it.

If the level is better, you can set up a small workshop-like processing factory at home, and then process a batch of clothes and sell them outside.

In the 1980s, both companies and schools organized large choruses and patriotic chorus competitions during the Chinese New Year. At such times, the business of small clothing stores would suddenly pick up, and they needed to

Add processing points to complete the large number of tasks assigned to them.

In other words, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, most of China's clothing industry was still a situation of individual workshops.

Large garment factories are nothing more than large state-owned enterprises, and large state-owned garment enterprises not only did not achieve much in the 1980s and 1990s, but died under the wave of reform and opening up.

Many people think that the collapse of large state-owned garment factories is due to poor management, but this is not always the case.

The most important reason is that at this time, the leaders of the state-owned garment factories and the leaders of the Light Industry Bureau did not have enough understanding of clothing trends. The factories only produced the earliest clothing in the late 1970s and 1980s with a single color.

The most produced and best quality work clothes are factory work clothes. In the 1980s, large state-owned enterprises had such a practice. Basically every year, factories would give workers two sets of work clothes and some labor protection supplies.

These things are basically handed over to state-owned garment factories for production. However, with the advent of reform and opening up, even the customization of work clothes has changed. There are good-looking, good-quality and cheap work clothes, so naturally

There will be selective purchasing.

In addition, the efficiency of state-owned enterprises is getting worse and worse, and the number of orders for work clothes has also been reduced rapidly. In addition, each school has to find its own manufacturers to customize clothes such as school uniforms. Naturally, the efficiency of state-owned garment factories has plummeted.

Large state-owned garment factories produce a large quantity of each type of clothing. Once they are unable to sell, a large backlog will begin to appear. At this time, the country no longer provides blood transfusions to such factories.

The factory's working capital directly led to a cutoff.

In addition, these large garment factories were built early, and after the mid-1980s, a large number of retirees began to appear.

The wages of retirees are borne by the enterprise. The enterprise bears the wages of retirees and various public welfare facilities, such as factory-affiliated kindergartens and factory-affiliated schools. These require real money from the factory to maintain.

It is precisely because of these internal and external reasons that the large state-owned factories that were not prosperous at that time were crushed.

Li Zhongxin remembers clearly that some time ago, although some of the backlog of goods from the two garment factories in Qi City and Mu City were sold through Zhongxin Company, they still did not change their thinking, let alone switch to other clothing.

idea.

Not only Qi City and Mu City, but also the garment factories here in Jiangcheng City are the same. They still follow the old ideas and have never thought of transformation and upgrading.

The directors of these factories all have the same idea. Upgrading the factory's machinery requires a lot of money. For the goods sold by the factory, workers' wages and workers' benefits must be paid first, and then other considerations can be considered.

They, the directors of state-owned factories, have nothing to say about this kind of thing. If they want to upgrade or change their thinking to make new things, they must get approval from their superiors, and the superior departments will allocate funds to their factories.

Only when these things are in place will they be able to carry out industrial upgrading according to the ideas given by Zhongxin Company.

If any of these are not achieved, then the upgrading of their enterprise will not be implemented in place.

At this time, the leaders of government agencies have always followed the old vision of the past and have backward and old ideas.

When they are in power, they generally only seek to have no faults, not meritorious deeds.

There is nothing wrong with them. Relying on their seniority, they can be promoted smoothly and their levels and positions will be improved.

They develop new and unique things, engage in industrial upgrading or other things, and they get credit, but they don't have too many good things. If something goes wrong, the responsibility will fall on them.

Based on such reasons and ideas, state-owned enterprises began to decline in the 1980s, and the private economy began to usher in a wave of spring.

The garment factories in Qi City, Mu City, and Jiangcheng completely disappeared from people's eyes in the early 1990s.

Li Zhongxin had an idea that after the New Year, he should ask Wang Bo to talk to the mayor of Jiangcheng City and the mayors of two other cities to see if they could acquire a certain clothing factory in these cities.

Li Zhongxin remembers very clearly that in the early 1990s, the garment factories in the three northeastern provinces were all wiped out by the tide of history because of their old ideas and lack of awareness of innovation.

If Zhongxin Company acquires a large clothing factory and develops a production line for making suits and fashionable jackets when the cloth tickets have become invalid, then the clothing factories in Jiangcheng will be full of vitality in the future and become more mainstream clothing
Chapter completed!