clothes vs garment

clothes

noun
  • Items of clothing; apparel. 

  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes. 

  • Laundry (hung on a clothesline). 

garment

noun
  • A single item of clothing. 

  • The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied. 

verb
  • To clothe in a garment. 

How often have the words clothes and garment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )