Clothing

Clothing (also called clothes) is fiber and textile material worn on the body. The wearing of clothing is mostly restricted to human beings and is a feature of nearly all human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on physical, social and geographic considerations. Some clothing types can be gender specific.

Physically, clothing serves many purposes: it can serve as protection from the elements, and can enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking. It protects the wearer from rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Clothes can insulate against cold or hot conditions. Further, they can provide a hygienic barrier, keeping infectious and toxic materials away from the body. Clothing also provides protection from harmful UV radiation.

Origin of clothing

There is no easy way to determine when clothing was first developed, but some information has been inferred by studying lice. The body louse specifically lives in clothing, and diverge from head lice about 107,000 years ago, suggesting that clothing existed at that time. Another theory is that modern humans are the only survivors of several species of primates who may have worn clothes and that clothing may have been used as long ago as 650 thousand years ago. Other louse-based estimates put the introduction of clothing at around 42,000–72,000 BP.

Apparel 2000

Apparel 2000 LLC, located in Rockland, MA is an embroidery company based out of Rockland, Massachusetts, United States.

Products

'Apparel 2000' manufactures custom embroidered emblems and does custom embroidery for garments.

The Roman Pro Cap Company, commonly known as "Roman Pro" or "Roman", formed when the "KM Pro Company" closed its doors in 1976. KM (and sales representative Tim McAuliffe, Inc.) had used Roman Art Embroidery Corp's embroidery for MLB caps and uniforms. Roman provided many teams with their baseball caps and in the 1950s through the early 1980s. Roman became an official licensee of Major League Baseball and produced "authentic" reproductions of cap styles used in the past, and was the first cap company to carry Authentic Replicas under the "Cooperstown Collection" label. Due to Roman's vast archive of embroidery patterns dating back to the turn of the century, Roman offered a large variety of caps with 100% accurate embroidered logos (for caps that, KM, or Roman made) until 1994 when the company filed for bankruptcy as a result of the baseball strike and then left the baseball cap industry. After the bankruptcy, Mitchell & Ness and other venture groups had their caps made under private label for some time afterward. Other clients of Roman Pro Cap Company included [NFL Throwbacks Collection], [NHL Heritage Collection], Minor League Baseball, Auto Body Express, Spike Lee's 40 Acres & a Mule Company, as well as many colleges, police, fire and FBI clients throughout the USA.