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[em1LL]

Hi all!

What's the difference between gloves and mittens? The same goes for cap and hood. Is there any difference at all? What should I make for dwarves and why?

Thanks in advance.

[Magistrum]

There are lot of differences between each clothing piece, but how you dress your dwarves is up to you. I usually make shirt, hood, pants, shoes, gloves... And that's about it. I recommend checking the wiki for the pros and cons of each.

[Fireborn]

For non-armor clothes, there isn't too much difference.

At a minimum, to avoid bad thoughts you need something that covers upper body, lower body, and feet.  I've heard that robes cover both, so absolute minimum would be robes and shoes/socks.

There're long bits about how much armor you can stack on a dwarf for maximum deflecty of death.  Cloaks and hoods do provide a surprising amount of deflection.

[Aslandus]

Different types of clothes have differnet amounts of coverage and are worn on different layers, for example mittens are worn over gloves which are worn on the hand. The material provides most of the defense, which for simple clothes is pretty low.

Here's the wiki page with more detail on coverage and defense:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Armor

[utunnels]

It seems dorfs are unwilling to drop their worn clothes if no replacements of corresponded garments are available.
For example, if you make lots of hoods but few caps, some of they will wear a new hood AND a tattered cap and have unhappy thoughts.
That is, if you don't use dfhack to dump all their worn clothes.

[Baffler]

Bear in mind though that any piece of clothing that isn't produced in the fortress is liable to be snapped up as soon as one becomes available. This is the reason for the famous rush of suicidal dwarves to claim the clothing and trinkets of battlefield casualties (often while it's still a battlefield.) Less concerning is that if you want to give your soldiers a piece of clothing, say a cape of a certain color, that the average dwarf in your fortress doesn't typically own will generally be snapped up by civilians instead of the military.