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[Derakon]

I did a quick search, and while I saw plenty of suggestions for things to do with old clothing, nothing obviously matched this. It's pretty simple. When a dwarf stops wearing a given piece of clothing, it becomes unowned, or "fortress property".

This has two simple effects:

 * Most importantly for many players, it can now be dumped, stored in stockpiles, and so on.
 * It opens up the possibility of poor dwarves wearing the castoffs from richer dwarves; discarded clothing will tend to be a bit worn, and thus not worth as much.

Practically speaking, no dwarf currently uses more than one set of clothes, so they have no need to own redundant clothing items. Eventually dwarves will presumably own multiple sets for different occasions, but that won't come until they have an intelligent clothes-swapping mechanism (which involves, as part of changing clothes, storing the unused set somewhere sensible). Even then, that won't solve the "I'm replacing this bit of clothing because it's too worn out" issue, though, where the dwarf effectively no longer wants the item in question.

[Aquillion]

Dwarves do at least store the unused clothes somewhere sensible if they can -- in a cabinet in their room, if they have one.

Of course, if they get interrupted in the job to put it there or something, I think it just gets left out, but there's at least a little bit of that in already.

[Hyndis]

/agree

Either limit dwarves to 1 of each clothing item, or perhaps items left on the floor are no longer marked as owned.

This would also help clear up the clutter from dwarves buying things from shops but then not putting away their new toys

[Mel_Vixen]

Well i would like if the dwarfes would haul their rags to the refuse-stockpile before the they become unowned.

Fortress-property is a nice idea for the only a bit worn (and/or inherited) stuff but i would think a dwarf likes to keep his stuff till its worn out. They arent humans which need 3 sets of new clothes every season because there is a "color or style of the season".

[chucks]

Well i would like if the dwarfes would haul their rags to the refuse-stockpile before the they become unowned.

Fortress-property is a nice idea for the only a bit worn (and/or inherited) stuff but i would think a dwarf likes to keep his stuff till its worn out. They arent humans which need 3 sets of new clothes every season because there is a "color or style of the season".

Dwarven high fashions cycles around about every 5 years when the king makes a mandate that everyone eschew their sensible pants and boots and shirts to trade them in for a simple loincloth in all regions.  Shortly afterward, he was executed by his most trusted advisors and replaced with a more sensible dwarf that simply demanded that horse leather was in season this half-decade, and for everyone to put up their dromedary leather until this time next century.

[Pilsu]

Medieval settings didn't have much in the way of fashion moguls telling gullible people what's cool and what isn't

[Silverionmox]

Medieval settings didn't have much in the way of fashion moguls telling gullible people what's cool and what isn't

There's always imitation of the next higher class by people of lower classes. It's how eating with forks and knives or pyjamas became common.