Class 25: Clothing
Nice Classification goods class, NCL 13-2026.
Class heading
Clothing, footwear, headwear
Explanatory note
Class 25 includes mainly clothing, footwear and headwear for human beings.
This class includes, in particular:
- parts of clothing, footwear and headwear, for example, cuffs, pockets, ready-made linings, heels and heelpieces, cap peaks, hat frames (skeletons)
- clothing and footwear for sports, for example, ski gloves, sports singlets, cyclists' clothing, martial arts uniforms, football shoes, gymnastic shoes, ski boots
- masquerade costumes
- paper clothing, paper hats for use as clothing
- bibs, not of paper
- pocket squares
This class does not include, in particular:
- small items of hardware used in shoemaking, for example, shoe pegs and shoe dowels of metal (Class 6) and not of metal (Class 20), as well as haberdashery accessories and fastenings for clothing, footwear and headwear, for example, clasps, buckles, zippers, ribbons, hatbands, hat and shoe trimmings (Class 26)
- certain clothing, footwear and headwear for special use, for example, protective helmets, including for sports, clothing for protection against fire (Class 9), clothing especially for operating rooms, orthopaedic footwear (Class 10), as well as clothing and footwear that are essential for the practice of certain sports, for example, baseball gloves, boxing gloves, ice skates (Class 28)
- fitted footmuffs for pushchairs and prams (Class 12)
- bibs of paper (Class 16)
- handkerchiefs of paper (Class 16) and of textile (Class 24)
- clothing for animals (Class 18)
- carnival masks (Class 28)
- dolls' clothes (Class 28)
- paper party hats (Class 28)
Common terms in Class 25
A sample of official terms from the WIPO alphabetical list. Search the full list in the Nice Class Finder.
- albs
- ascots
- berets
- boots
- camisoles
- cap peaks
- chasubles
- clothing
- coats
- corselets
- cuffs
- dresses
- footwear
- gaiters
- galoshes
- garters
- girdles
- hanbok
- hats
- headwear
- heels
- hosiery
- kimonos
- knickers
- leotards
- liveries
- maniples
- mantillas
- mittens
- neckties
Indicative only. Classification and specifications should be confirmed by an attorney before filing. This is general information, not legal advice.