If an an advanced alien race suddenly appeared and genetically transformed some % of humans (say 15%) as sentient clothing, living and thinking garments, and deemed the remaining humans worthy of being their owners and wearers…..
If the aliens chose you as a Chosen One, one that is told to wear the other humans as clothing, what do you think you would do?
Would you just have a couple garments? Wearing genetically modified humans as clothing would open up a kaleidoscope of potential societal faux pas.
Obviously none of us would ever wear another human being as a pair of sweatpants. That would be immoral. But what if your parents wore other people as pants…. And what if the whole society has worn people as pants for hundreds of years? Would you dissent?
How could you relax in a pair of sweatpants when you knew it was a person? Even if it could never talk back, there was a soul capable of suffering in the seat of your pants inhaling every fart.
There would be whole segmented societies of various forms of nudists, each with very specific rules and doctrines pertaining to the morality of what human garment one can wear and under what conditions. They will go to war against The Armored: A consenting symbiotic relationship of like-minded human and Human Clothing (H.C.) that fight to restore mankind to its simpler past: when we just bought sweatpants at Target instead of brewing them out of human souls in cauldrons.