CLOTHES or CLOTHS or CLOTHING - Grammar

CLOTHES or CLOTHS or CLOTHING

Clothes is always plural. 

My clothes are warm is always the correct sentence. 
My suit (of clothes) is warm is the correct sentence.

His new clothes look good. (correct)
His new clothes looks good. (wrong)

I wear these clothes every day. (correct)
I wear this clothing every day. (unnatural; overly formal)

When referring to a specific “number of clothes”, we would say “piece of clothing”, “article of clothing”, or “item of clothing”, for example:

I bought a new piece of clothing. (correct)
I bought a new clothes. (wrong)

You will get a discount if you buy five or more articles of clothing. (correct)
You will get a discount if you buy five or more clothes. (unnatural)


When to Use Cloths
A cloth is a piece of fabric. Cloths is just the plural form of that noun. 
You pronounce cloths like “klawths” or “kloths.” Here are some helpful examples.

• Nina cleaned the furniture with cloths made from an old T-shirt.
• Cathy likes to dress her twin daughters in matching cloths.

When To Use Clothes
Clothes are what you wear. In other words, clothes is a noun that refers to garments. 

When you pronounce it, it has a long O—“klohth.” Clothes is also one form of the verb to clothe. 

Clothe means to dress, to provide with clothes, or to cover something as if with clothing.

Correct: 

• Before you buy clothes at a secondhand store, make sure to check them for stains or tears.

Correct: 

• The father clothes his children in snowsuits when they go skiing.

Wrong: 

• At my job, I am not allowed to wear cloths with logos.

Clothes or clothing?

Clothing is more formal than clothes and is used especially to mean ‘a particular type of clothes’. 

There is no singular form of clothes or clothing: a piece/an item/an article of clothing is used to talk about one thing that you wear such as a dress or shirt.

• Clothing the poor was Martin's principal objective.