take clothes for instance BOOK

AN ILL FIT
As I was casting about for subjects to depict this feeling of
awkwardness began to emerge as the foundation of my project.
I started to focus my attention on other instances where I had felt
as uncomfortable as this, and I began to consider this lack of
comfort, this state of fragility, of feeling misshapen and not
fitting, and of the fear of being exposed or revealed as akin to
wearing ill-fitting clothes.
This experience shared by all of us, the very clothes on our backs,
if pulled out of shape could give us a sense that the shape of our
own identities had also been misshapen.
OUTSIDE OF A COMFORT ZONE
I’d had numerous conversations with acquaintances in the past
who’d described situations where they had worn clothes
inappropriate for an occasion like a wedding, or for work, and
they’d expressed feelings of embarrassment and shame for their
bad choice of apparel, particularly whilst in sight of others. At
other times they’d recalled the ill fit of the clothing which might
have been too short or tight, may have ridden up or dropped
down, may even have fallen off. Their bodies may have been
pressed into clothing which made them feel misshapen, feeding
back to them a distorted sense of themselves, and of how they
feared others might scrutinise them. I could also recall numerous
occasions when my own clothing had this effect of putting me in
an uneasy state of mind. As a consequence this had a
destabilising effect on my confidence.
It seems that ill-fitting clothing can invoke a high degree of affect.
The way people feel about themselves and others, although it’s
often subliminal, that it falls under the radar of consciousness, is
still nonetheless felt in a deep and visceral way. It places people
in a state of dis-ease, a state sometimes so uncomfortable that it
feels akin to an illness. The definition of the word sums this up:
Dis-ease
early 14c., “discomfort, inconvenience,” from Old French desaise “lack, want; discomfort,
distress; trouble, misfortune; disease, sickness,” from des- “without, away” (see dis-) +
aise “ease” (see ease). Sense of “sickness, illness” in English first recorded late 14c.; the
word still sometimes was used in its literal sense early 17c.