Tiruppur sees spike in overseas demand for kidswear, innerwear

Chennai The garment exporting units in Tiruppur of Tamil Nadu are seeing increased demand for innerwear, children wear, long garments from overseas markets while the orders for fashion garments have gone down, said an industry official. He also said the US and European markets have opened up and the Tiruppur export units are functioning well and the domestic market has also improved.

"With people worldwide spending more time at their homes due to Covid-19, the orders for innerwear and children's wear have increased. Similarly demand for long garments have increased while the orders for masks and personal protection equipment (PPE) have come down. On the other hand, orders for fashion garments have come down for our units," S Sakthivel, Executive Secretary, Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA) told IANS.