clothes, clothing, garment, cloth clothes are things that you wear, for example shirts and dresses
I need some new clothes.
Do you ever wear your sister's clothes
clothes is always plural and has no singular form
He was wearing nice clothes NOT a nice clothe/clothes
Use clothing to talk about a particular type of clothes or when talking about making or selling clothes • Special protective clothing is worn.
a clothing manufacturer!! This word is not used much in ordinary spoken language
I went shopping for summer clothes (NOT clothing).
In formal English, you can use garment or piece/item/article of clothing to refer to one thing you wear
a long velvet garment
a discarded article of clothing But it is more usual to name the particular thing you mean
He was wearing a long coat (NOT long garment)