Professional wear, also known as work clothes, is specially made for work needs. Professional wear design should be based on industry requirements, combined with professional characteristics, team culture, age structure, body characteristics, wearing habits and so on. Provide the best design scheme from the aspects of clothing color, fabric, style, modeling and collocation, and create a brand-new professional image with connotation and taste for customers. Professional wear design is a proper term of modern clothing separated from "modern clothing design". In developed countries, professional wear has developed rapidly, and its appearance has gradually separated from the "clothing system" and become a relatively independent "uniform" clothing subsystem. Moreover, the professional clothing system is showing its own characteristics and laws more and more, and it is different from other clothing categories in the research, development, design, production, sales and use of clothing value system and theoretical research system. There are specialized research institutions, colleges and universities, expositions (such as Cologne, Germany), design centers (such as Japan's NUC "Japan Uniform Center"), research institutes, laboratories, specialty stores and specialized companies ... Modern professional wear has not appeared and been used in China for a long time. Probably from modern times, foreign ideas and materials have greatly changed China people's dress concepts and ways, such as "what to wear", which is the basic concept of modern professional dress.

However, this does not mean that there is no history and concept of "professional attire" in China. For example, the military uniforms in ancient China and the official uniforms of various dynasties were all standard "professional clothes". In this sense, the appearance and use of professional clothes in China has a long history, but people have not named this kind of clothes as professional clothes. As a definition, in the subdivided modern society, there are government agencies, schools, companies and other groups, including students, flight attendants, pilots, police, doctors and nurses, shop assistants and other occupations. Or in order to distinguish it from clothes with special appearance that do not belong to these groups or to express their respective identities, according to the characteristic "type" of each occupation, we can have a feeling that "this" or "these" uniforms are a certain occupation, and clothes with this feeling can be used to define whether they belong to the scope of professional wear.