Since both NC and AL had operating sea ports through almost all of the war they had the best uniforms in the CSA. Best being relative. It was easy to tell them apart as they were the ones that didn’t look like tattered scarecrows.
Ports had little to do with North Carolina providing good uniforms for it’s troops. In early 1862, the NC government purchased an abandoned knitting mill. They began to manufacture their own uniform cloth. The NC Govt. then established a sewing operation near the mill and produced uniforms for NC soldiers. The NC govt. made many thousand uniform trousers and jackets at this facility, right up to the end of the war. Getting the clothing to their troops however was a different set of problems which they unable to solve the last year of the war.