Clothing

Gear

Clothes are a kind of gear, mostly for providing protection from hot and cold weather and climate and covering up your colonists nudity. They usually offer little in the way of protection against weapons when compared to armor.

Clothing can be crafted at a tailor's workbench.

If left exposed with no roof, clothing will slowly deteriorate until it disintegrates without a trace.

Clothing when worn suffers wear and tear and loses hit points over time. Apparel becomes damaged when owner dies from violence. Apparel actually takes the damage it absorbs as armor.

A colonist wearing any apparel with health between 21% and 50% will get the 'Wearing frayed apparel' thought. A colonist wearing any apparel with health 20% or below will get the 'Wearing tattered apparel' thought, replacing the 'frayed apparel' thought. These thoughts do not stack.

The Overview screen has an Outfits tab that manages apparel profiles. The Outfits system provides a way to exclude colonists from wearing damaged apparel that causes mood debuffs.

As of version 0.15.1279 (29 August 2016) If you don't have enough warm clothing for every colonist, an alert letter will show up "Need warm clothes".

Clothing Layers

Main articles: Apparel layers and Table of Human Body Part Groups

Each item of apparel or utility gear is worn on a specific location of the wearer's body. That location is determined by two things:

The body part groups it covers.
The layer or layers it occupies.

Apparel combinations are limited by layer and coverage - an item cannot be worn with another item that covers the same body parts and on the same layer. Thus, items covering the same parts but on different layers are compatible, as are items on the same layer but with no overlap in coverage. Items that cover multiple layers conflict with items on all layers.

Layers are also used to determine the order in which armor calculations are performed, with the outermost layer's armor applying first, and progressing through the layers until the attack is stopped or there are no more layers.

The layers, from innermost to outermost, are:

Skin: The closest layer to the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head.
Middle: The second closest layer to the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head.
Outer: The third layer from the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head. Note that it will be displayed on the pawn's sprite above all other layers, even though it is considered below the following layers for actual mechanical effects.
Belt: Technically the fourth layer. A distinct layer for utility items to allow them to be worn alongside any other apparel but not with each other.
Headgear: The fifth layer, and used for headwear. There are several items that cover body parts typically covered by the other layers however, in which case this will be above them.
Eyes: The outermost layer. A distinct layer only used for the blindfold to allow it to be worn alongside headwear.

Which body parts currently have items that occupy each of the layers is shown in the table on the below; layers and body parts which are not currently used by gear were omitted. As such, the hands and feet which are not covered by any apparel or any layer, are omitted.

Body Part Group	Coverage	Skin	Middle	Outer	Headgear	Eyes	Belt
Full Head	Head, Ears, Nose, Jaw, Eyes				×
Upper Head	Head, Ears				×
Eyes	Eyes					×
Shoulders	Left & Right Shoulders	×	×	×
Arms	Left & Right Arm	×	×	×
Torso	Torso	×	×	×
Waist	Waist						×
Neck	Neck	×	×	×	×
Legs	Left & Right Leg	×	×	×

Examples

You can't wear pants as well as tribalwear, since both cover the "skin" layer and cover the legs.
You can wear pants and a button-down shirt, since while they both use the "skin" layer they don't cover the same parts.
You can wear pants and a duster, since while they both cover the legs pants use the "skin" layer while a duster uses the "outer" layer.

On Skin Layer

Pants

Main article: Pants

A simple set of pants.

Boring old pants. Not visible on humans.

T-Shirt

Main article: T-Shirt

Most colonists start with this or the Button-Down Shirt.

Button-Down Shirt

Main article: Button-Down Shirt

A nicer and slightly better formal shirt.

On Skin and Middle Layers

Tribalwear

Main article: Tribalwear

A full-body garment crafted using neolithic tools. While it may look primitive, it is effective at insulating the wearer.

Resource-cheap and practical. The neolithic raiders are usually dressed in these.

Shell Layer

Duster

Main article: Duster

A long duster coat for blocking the sun and grit of the desert.

The stylish and tough duster, with a small but notable amount of heat protection.

Jacket

Main article: Jacket

A tough jacket to stop scrapes and bruises, and keep one warm in chilly weather.

Very slightly better than the duster in sharp protection and a slightly smaller move speed penalty.

Parka

Main article: Parka

A thick parka for staying warm even in the coldest of temperatures.

The key to domination of the arctic circle. Makes winters, tundras and megalomanic walk-in freezer projects survivable.

Over Head Layer

Cowboy Hat

Main article: Cowboy Hat

Obvious throw-back to the Western-esque themes of RimWorld.

Tuque

Main article: Tuque

A soft, thick cap. Great for keeping warm in winter.

In the decision between winter survival and style, some lesser souls will ditch their cowboy hat for a tuque.

Tables

Base Values

Clothing	Body Area	Layer	Work	Material cost	Material/Work	Blunt	Sharp	Heat	Move Speed	Max Temp	Min Temp
Pants	Legs	OnSkin	117	50	~0.427	3%	3%	-	-	-	-4
T-Shirt	Torso	OnSkin	80	50	0.625	3%	3%	-	-	-	-3
Button-Down Shirt	Torso	OnSkin	134	55	~0.410	3%	3%	-	-	-	-4
Tribalwear	Torso, Legs	OnSkin	34	35	~1.029	+3%	+3%	-	-	-	-10
Duster	Torso	Shell	400	80	0.2	3%	7%	7%	-4%	+15	-15
Jacket	Torso	Shell	284	70	~0.246	-	8%	3%	-3%	-	-15
Parka	Torso	Shell	367	120	~0.327	-	3%	3%	-5%	-8	-45
Cowboy Hat	UpperHead	OverHead	50	25	0.5	3%	3%	-	-	+8	-
Tuque	UpperHead	OverHead	14	25	1.786	3%	3%	-	-	-2	-10

Quality Effects

Material Effects

Material	Market Value Multiplier	Flammability	Blunt Base	Sharp Base	Heat Base	Electric Base	Blunt Multiplier	Sharp Multiplier	Heat Multiplier	Electric Multiplier	Min Temp
Cloth	×1.5	100%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Synthread	×11.0	100%	+3%	+3%	+3%	+3%	-	×1.65	×4.0	×4.0	-
Devilstrand	×12.0	100%	+5%	+5%	-	+5%	×1.3	×2.0	-	×3.0	-
Hyperweave	×45.0	100%	+3%	+3%	+3%	-	×1.6	×4.0	×2.0	-	-
Leather (most)	×1.3	100%	-	-	-	-	×1.5	×1.5	×1.7	×4.0	×2.0
Leather (hare, boomrat, squirrel)	×1.3	100%	-	-	-	-	×1.5	×1.5	×1.7	×4.0	×1.7
Leather (tortoise, iguana, cobra)	×1.3	100%	-	-	-	-	×1.5	×1.5	×1.7	×4.0	×1.2
Leather (human)	×3.0	100%	-	-	-	-	×1.5	×1.5	×1.7	×4.0	×2.0
Leather (boar)	×1.5	100%	-	-	-	-	×1.5	×1.5	×4.0	×4.0	×2.0
Leather (rhino)	×1.5	100%	-	-	-	-	×2.0	×2.5	×1.7	×4.0	×2.0

to Leather

To calculate the final value of an attribute:

(<base value> + <material base value>) * material multiplier

e.g. The blunt defense value of a Devilstrand t-shirt (5% + 3%)*1.3 = 10.4%

Quality	Armor Factor	Insulation Factor
Awful	0.4	0.7
Shoddy	0.7	0.8
Poor	0.85	0.9
Normal	1	1.0
Good	1.1	1.05
Superior	1.3	1.1
Excellent	1.5	1.15
Masterwork	1.7	1.2
Legendary	2.1	1.25
	*not confirmed