think current public version has some strange problem with clothes, first there seems either with ditto or in general I noticed sometimes clothes give you perma-boosts to a stat when you equip other gender cloth or change to different. And they do not really seem to be too necessary. getting certain traits is fairly easy with pills which give a lot, or feed them to ditto for free. A bit more expensive, but also works with request board and work.
If cloths would allow strange statshifts like cross changes or gave secondary character state they might be worth it. But again we are looking like 8x8 times more work to writing scenes which is no fun. And same amount of images if in most cases it is just cute visual. So I feel like they are unnecessary in game right now and it is easier to use pills than change clothes.
The only thing comes in mind maybe something taken from other game where you needed to satisfy certain tag conditions. Maybe use cloth+innate stats as way to trigger special events so you have at least far less writing to do. But then you need some way to hint player what they need to do. Or maybe just not use them, as a stat change mechanic.