Apparel Manufacturing Industries in the Apparel Manufacturing
subsector group establishments with two distinct manufacturing
processes: (1) cut and sew (i.e., purchasing fabric and cutting
and sewing to make a garment), and (2) the manufacture of garments
in establishments that first knit fabric and then cut and sew the
fabric into a garment. The Apparel Manufacturing subsector includes
a diverse range of establishments manufacturing full lines of
ready-to-wear apparel and custom apparel: apparel contractors,
performing cutting or sewing operations on materials owned by
others; jobbers performing entrepreneurial functions involved in
apparel manufacture; and tailors, manufacturing custom garments for
individual clients are all included. Knitting, when done alone,
is classified in the Textile Mills subsector, but when knitting is
combined with the production of complete garments, the activity is
classified in Apparel Manufacturing.

Excerpt from census.gov/naics