Suits are imported from Western countries, Chinese did not wear suits before, since the reform and opening up, people's concepts have gradually changed, only to begin to accept suits, wear some trendy things.

Li Zhongxin vaguely remembered that it seemed that after Zhang Mingmin sang in a suit at the Spring Festival Gala in '84, the trend of wearing suits was aroused, and more and more people wore suits.

It was from this time that people saw that high-level people in Hong Kong were wearing suits and ties, and they looked like they had such an indescribable style, and it was precisely for such a reason that wearing suits and ties gradually became a fashion.

Chinese, who are eager to connect with the international market, seem to take the initiative to accept this clothing culture that is not unfamiliar, but feels fresh with a challenging mentality.

The clothing of this era is "crisp and heavy", and due to the influence of the social environment, people's thinking is still relatively conservative, and they are just beginning to try something new.

The suit is loose, stretched, and convenient as its main theme, the lapel stop point of the suit is relatively high, the lapels are very wide, the shoulder slope is relatively small, but the shoulder pads are small, the color is monotonous, and the black, gray, blue and other colorless are popular.

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

But what! In the 80s, suits were not easy to make, and almost all clothing tailoring shops made suits by hand.

The height of the person and the various parts of the body are measured with a tape measure, and all the data is recorded in a notebook and customized according to the shape of the body.

Li Zhongxin remembers very well that his father Li Shangyong's unit had a younger brother named Aunt Xue, who was a fashion designer who opened a clothing cutting school in Jiangcheng in the late eighties, and it was so popular that it was unwanted.

At that time, when he went to the fashion school, there were countless students who signed up to study, and young men and women all went to his clothing cutting school to learn the skills of making clothes, and wanted to become a fashion designer, no, it should be said that they learned the art of clothing cutting.

After learning the art of clothing cutting, you can make clothes at home, and if your neighbors want to make a suit or two pants, you need to find them to make it.

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

In the 80s, both enterprises and schools practiced the New Year's chorus and held that kind of patriotic chorus competition, and every time such a time, the business of small clothing stores would suddenly improve, and they needed to process and add points to complete a large number of tasks assigned to them.

In other words, from the late 80s to the mid-90s, China's garment industry was mostly still stuck in a situation of individual workshops.

Large-scale garment factories are still those large state-owned enterprises, and the large-scale state-owned garment enterprises not only did not do much in the eighties and nineties, but died under the wave of reform and opening up.

Many people think that large state-run garment factories are closing down because of poor management, but this is not always the case.

The main reason is that at this time, the leaders of the state-owned garment factory and the leaders of the Light Industry Bureau did not have enough understanding of the clothing trend, and the factory only made those clothes with a single color, the late seventies and eighties.

In the 80s, large state-owned enterprises had such a practice, basically every year the factory would issue two sets of work clothes to the workers, and some labor protection supplies.

These things are basically handed over to state-owned garment factories for production, but with the advent of the tide of reform and opening up, the customization of work clothes has changed.

In addition, the efficiency of state-owned enterprises is getting worse and worse, the number of orders for work clothes is also rapidly decreasing, and the school uniforms and other clothes are customized by each school to find its own manufacturers, and the efficiency of state-owned garment factories has naturally plummeted.

The garment factories of large state-owned enterprises, each kind of clothing produced, the quantity produced is quite large, once there is a situation that cannot be sold, a large number of backlogs will begin to appear, and the country at this time has ceased to transfuse blood like this factory, and the factory's working capital directly leads to the interruption of the flow.

Coupled with the fact that these large garment factories were established early, after the mid-eighties, a large number of retirees began to appear.

The wages of retirees are borne by the enterprise, and the enterprise bears the wages of the retirees and various public welfare facilities, such as the kindergarten attached to the factory and the school affiliated to the factory, which require the factory to come up with real money to maintain.

It is precisely because of these internal and external reasons that the large state-owned factories that were so prosperous back then were crushed alive.

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

Not only Qi City and Mu City, but also the garment factories in Jiangcheng City, they still follow the old-fashioned thinking, and they have never thought of transforming and upgrading.

The directors of these factories all have the idea that upgrading the machinery of the factory requires a lot of money, and the goods sold by the factories now must first pay the wages and benefits of the workers, and then consider other things.

If they want to upgrade and change their thinking to do something new, they must be approved by the superior leaders, and the higher authorities will allocate money to their factories.

If one of them is not met, then the upgrade of their enterprise will not be in place.

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

When they were in power, they generally only sought no fault, not merit.

There is no fault, relying on seniority, they can smoothly over-promote, and there will be promotions in rank and position.

They are engaged in new and strange things, industrial upgrading or other things, and they have credit, but they do not have too many good things, and if something bad happens, the responsibility will fall on them at that time.

Based on such a reason and idea, the state-owned enterprises in the 80s began to go downhill, and the private economy began to usher in a wave of spring.

Whether it is Qi City, Mu City, or Jiangcheng's garment factory, it completely disappeared from people's eyes in the early nineties.

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 he could buy a garment factory in these cities.

Li Zhongxin remembers very well that the garment factories in the three northeastern provinces were all annihilated in the tide of history in the early 90s because of their outdated concepts and lack of sense of innovation.

If Zhongxin Company acquires a large garment factory and develops a production line for making suits and popular coats when the cloth ticket has been invalidated, then the garment factory in Jiangcheng will be full of vitality in the future, laying a solid foundation for the popularity of mainstream clothing.