As for the ready-made clothing business, because of the poverty in Taiwan in those days, many people took cast-off cloth from made-for-export clothing manufacturers and assembled it into clothing of all kinds which they then sold in markets.
成衣業起源則是因早期台灣民眾生活窮困，許多人以外銷成衣廠的剩餘碎布拼接衣物，或車裁成童裝、內衣褲後再到市場販賣，後來發展成了整匹布加工、車製成衣。