...in which private contractors - for textiles, typically individual women - would be given cloth or raw materials and paid to process them at home. Note also that this is happening at precisely the point of Cotton's introduction...
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I can easily imagine lots of hand-me-downs for children, but in practice, the peasantry tend to wear their clothing to destruction and that destruction, for work clothes, can come quite quickly. Cato the Elder - a harsh jerk of a slave-master - still budgeted for...
...a complete new set of clothes for his enslaved agricultural workers every other year. And again, this is almost certainly an absolute minimum (and in Italy, not France - climate matters!) So there might not be much to hand-down; replacing textiles was a continuous activity...
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...with exhausted textiles from clothing being repurposed for all of the other textile needs - rags, blankets, quilts, etc, etc - of the household. So you want to think of the household's clothing in a 'flow' model, rather than a 'stockpile' mode...
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...with clothes continuously being worn out and replaced for all the members of an (often extended) household. And in that case, turning over a portion of that flow to military textiles would give you sufficient uniforms fairly rapidly (read: months, not weeks or years).
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